Course : Introduction to American Fiction
Course code : ENL216
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Syllabus
Course Outline: Introduction to American Literature (2nd)
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Week 1 |
Introduction—Why American literature? Periodization. Elements of fiction |
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Week 2 |
Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle |
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Week 3 |
Dark Romanticism: Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
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Week 4 |
Herman Melville: Bartleby, the Scrivener |
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Week 5 |
American Transcedentalism: R.W. Emerson, H.D.Thoreau |
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Week 6 |
Proto-feminism: Κate Chopin: The Storm |
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Week 7 |
from Realism to Modernism: F.Scott Fitzgerald : The Rich Boy |
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Week 8 |
Modernism: Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants |
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Week 9 |
African American fiction: Alice Walker: Everyday Use |
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Week 10 |
Post-modernism: Raymond Carver: Cathedral |
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Week 11 |
After Post-modernism: Jeffrey Eugenides: from The Marriage Plot, "Extreme Solitude" |
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Week 12 |
Jonathan Franzen: Agreeable
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