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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
english
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Professor Shira Wolosky
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wed 2:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Shira Wolosky
Course/Module description:
Readings in major texts of American literary and political culture
Course/Module aims:
to familiarize students with major works of American literature and culture, and close analysis of texts
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
--recognize formative ideas, concepts and tropes in American literature and American culture;
--place those ideas in a correct historical and political context;
--understand key ideas in American politics;
--appreciate great works of American literature in local and global perspective.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
lecture
Course/Module Content:
This course aims to provide an overview of American literature and culture, reading seminal texts in light of formative American myths and historical milestones but focusing on issues of identity and pluralism
1
Required Reading:
March 19: Winthrop – Model of Christian Charity
21: Anne Bradstreet: Prologue; Author to Her Book; Upon the Burning of her House
Week 2
March 26: Cotton Mathers; Mayflower Compact; Edward Taylor: Huswifery; All Dull my Soul
PESACH March 28- April 8
Week 3
April 9: Jonathan Edwards: Personal Narrative
April 11: Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography: Selected Parts 1 and 2
Week 4
April 16: Jefferson: Declaration; Federalist 10
April 18: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance
Week 5
April 22: Thoreau: [Economy] Civil Disobedience
April 25: Nathaniel Hawthorne: My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Week 6
April 30: Frederick Douglass: Autobiography chapters 1, 6-7, 9-10
May 2: Walt Whitman – Song of Myself 1-8, 48, 52:
Week 7
May 7: Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg, Second Inaugural; De Tocqueville
May 9: Emily Dickinson: Emily Dickinson: 303; the Soul Selects her own Society; Success; Victory comes Late; My Triumph Lasted; 444 It feels a Shame; It's Easy to Invent a Life; Four Trees; Over the Fence; I took my Power.
Week 8: Read Huckleberry Finn online http://www.classicly.com/download-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-pdf
May 14: Huckleberry chapters: 1,2, 5, 8, 14-15-16
May 16: May 21: Huckleberry Finn esp: 17-18-19, 21, 23-25, 28, 31-34, 42-43
Week 9 MIDTERM PAPER DUE
May 23: Melville: Bartleby
May 25: Kallen; Emma Lazarus
Week 10
May 28: Henry James: Daisy Miller Part I
May 30: Henry James: Daisy Miller Part II
Week 11
June 4: Charlotte Gilman: Yellow Wallpaper
June 6: Anzia Yezierska:
Week 12
June 11: Du Bois: Souls of Black Folks; Phyllis Wheatley
June 13: Frances Harper; Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Week 13
June 18: William Faulkner: The Bear
June 20: Muriel Rukeyser
Week 14 Second Paper Assignment
June 25: Michael Walzer Involuntary Associations
Additional Reading Material:
none
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 40 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 10 %
Project work 40 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Participation
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