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History of American Literature II

Course Code	: İDE224
Course Type	: Area Elective
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: English
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 2
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 4

Objectives of the Course

Familiarize the students with the major names, works, and issues in American literature from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

Course Content

Examples from American poetry, drama, novel and short fiction written in the period between 1850 and 1990 will be read and discussed.

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Learning Outcomes

1.	Have general knowledge on American literary history from 1850s to the present
2.	Identify how literature reflected the socal life in which it was produced
3.	Generate ideas on American identity both locally and globally
4.	Explain and interpret the written works of fiction and nonfiction from industrial revolution to the present
5.	Describe and conclude how to read a piece of literary work in English in a scientific manner

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Baym, Nina, et al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 8th ed. Package 2. NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011. Print.
2.	Lauter, Paul (ed.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature Vol.I&II New York: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994.
3.	Norton, Mary Beth, et al. A People and a Nation: History of the United States .7th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Print.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Introduction; review of course content and requirements

Week 2 - Theoretical

Romanticism: Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

Week 3 - Theoretical

Romanticism: N.Hawthorne- “Young Goodman Brown"

Week 4 - Theoretical

American Gothic: E.A.Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Masque of Red Death"

Week 5 - Theoretical

Realism and Local Color Fiction - Mark Twain & Bret Harte

Week 6 - Theoretical

Realism and Local Color Fiction - Mark Twain & Bret Harte

Week 7 - Theoretical

Henry James "Daisy Miller"

Week 8 - Intermediate Exam

Midterm

Week 9 - Theoretical

Narratives on Nature: H.D.Thoreau-Walden/ “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”

Week 10 - Theoretical

Jack London "To Build a Fire"

Week 11 - Theoretical

H.Melville-“Bartleby the Scrivener” and H.D.Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”

Week 12 - Theoretical

Modernism - Robert Frost "Fire and Ice," "Desert Places," Carl Sandburg "Chicago" e. e. Cummings "[ l(a)]," "[O sweet spontaneous]"

Week 13 - Theoretical

Ernest Hemingway "Soldier's Home"

Week 14 - Theoretical

F. Scott Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited,"

Week 15 - Theoretical

Post-Modernism

Week 16 - Final Exam

Final

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%40
Final Examination	1	%70

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	1	28	40	68
Assignment	2	2	4	12
Midterm Examination	1	3	1	4
Final Examination	1	14	2	16
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				100

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