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- | = final examination topics: BA, American track: literature | ||
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- | # The Literature of Colonization and Puritanism: histories, poetry, the captivity narrative | ||
- | # The American Enlightenment: | ||
- | # 19th century women writers and the slave narrative | ||
- | # Discuss American Transcendentalism in general, and choose one author for detailed discussion.( Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller) | ||
- | # Compare the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. | ||
- | # General aspects of XIXth century prose: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Henry James; choose one for detailed discussion | ||
- | # Twentieth century women writers: the first and second generation (Chopin, Jewett, Freeman, Gilman, Wharton, Cather; Plath, Bishop, Rich, Morrison, Walker, Silko, Oates, Lorde, Angelou ) Choose one author from each generation for detailed discussion | ||
- | # Modernist poetry: high modernism and radical modernism (Pound, Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Stein, H.D., Loy) | ||
- | # Modernist fiction (Stein, Barnes, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright) | ||
- | # Describe general aspects of the Harlem Renaissance and choose one author for detailed discussion. (Alain Locke, DuBois, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Larsen) | ||
- | # Modern American drama (O' | ||
- | # General aspects of postmodern poetry and fiction (the Black Mountain Poets, the Beats, the San Francisco Renaissance, | ||
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- | === recommended readings | ||
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- | ==== primary readings | ||
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- | * The Journal of John Winthrop | ||
- | * Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of … | ||
- | * Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment, | ||
- | * Benjamin Franklin, from Autobiography | ||
- | * Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” | ||
- | * Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature, | ||
- | * Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government, | ||
- | * Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux, | ||
- | * Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter” , “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Philosophy of Composition, | ||
- | * Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin | ||
- | * Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of FD, an American Slave | ||
- | * Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | ||
- | * Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass,” “Song of Myself,” “I Sing the Body Electric, | ||
- | * Emily Dickinson, # 214, 258, 280, 303, 341, 437, 465, 520, 619, 624, 754, 764, 861, 1071, 1072, 1129, 1418, 1719, 1732, 1677 | ||
- | * Herman Melville, “Bartleby, | ||
- | * Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron” | ||
- | * Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | ||
- | * Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | ||
- | * Kate Chopin, “Desirée’s Baby,” “A Respectable Woman,” “The Story of an Hour,” The Awakening | ||
- | * Susan Glaspell, Trifles | ||
- | * Henry James, Daisy Miller, “The Beast in the Jungle,” The Turn of the Screw | ||
- | * Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (chapters I, XIX, XXV) | ||
- | * Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie | ||
- | * T. E. Hulme, “Autumn, | ||
- | * Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro,” “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste, “Pact,” “L' | ||
- | * William CarlosWilliams, | ||
- | * H. D., “Oread, | ||
- | * Gertrude Stein, “Susie Asado,” “Preciosilla, | ||
- | * Amy Lowell, “Opal,” “A Decade” | ||
- | * Robert Frost, “Mending Wall,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Reluctance, | ||
- | * T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, | ||
- | * Wallace Stevens, “Anecdote of the Jar,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, | ||
- | * W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (chapters I, III) | ||
- | * Langston Hughes, “The Weary Blues,” “I, Too,” | ||
- | * Countee Cullen, “Incident, | ||
- | * Claude McKay, “If We Must Die” | ||
- | * Allen Ginsberg, from Howl, I | ||
- | * Gary Snyder, Riprap, “The Call of the Wild” | ||
- | * Sylvia Plath, “Morning Song,” “Lady Lazarus,” | ||
- | * Robert Lowell, “Home After Thirteen Months Away” | ||
- | * Adrienne Rich, “Diving into the Wreck,” “Translations, | ||
- | * Anne Sexton, “For My Lover, Returning to His Wife” | ||
- | * Charles Olson, “I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You,” “Maximus, to himself,” „For Sappho, Back,” “Variations Done for Gerald Van De Wiele”; “Projective Verse” | ||
- | * Robert Creely, “For Love,” “I Know a Man,” “Mountains in the Desert” | ||
- | * Robert Duncan, “Structure of Rhyme, XI,” “Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow” | ||
- | * Denise Levertov, “Beyond the End,” “The Jacob’s Ladder,” “Stepping Westward, | ||
- | * Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper | ||
- | * Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants, | ||
- | * William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,” The Sound and the Fury | ||
- | * Djuna Barnes, Nightwood | ||
- | * F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, “Babylon Revisited” | ||
- | * Nella Larsen, Passing | ||
- | * Jean Toomer, “Blood-Burning Moon” (from Cane) | ||
- | * Zora Neale Hurston, “The Eatonville Anthology, | ||
- | * Richard Wright, Native Son | ||
- | * Eugene O' | ||
- | * Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire | ||
- | * Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman | ||
- | * Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
- | * Nathanael West, excerpts from Miss Lonelyhearts | ||
- | * Richard Wright, “Long Black Song” | ||
- | * John Dos Passos, from The Big Money (from the trilogy U. S. A.) | ||
- | * Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” | ||
- | * J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye | ||
- | * John Barth, The End of the Road | ||
- | * Thomas Pynchon, “Entropy” | ||
- | * Donald Barthelme, “Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning” | ||
- | * Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior | ||
- | * Alice Walker, The Color Purple | ||
- | * Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony | ||
- | * Toni Morrison, Beloved, The Bluest Eye | ||
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- | ==== secondary readings | ||
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- | * The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 3rd ed. | ||
- | * The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2nd ed. | ||
- | * Bollobás Enikő, Az amerikai irodalom története. Budapest: Osiris, 2005. | ||
- | * Gray, Richard, A History of American Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. | ||
- | * Elliott, Emory, ed., Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia UP, 1998. | ||
- | * Federmayer, Éva, Irén Annus, and Judith Sollosy, Netting America at http:// | ||
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