Course Contents |
Purificationists, Immigration, Settlement, Frontier Movement, Slavery, Civil War, Industrialization, Great Bottleneck, I. and II. This course, which deals with American myths through a chronological analysis of cultural and historical phenomena such as World War II and Vietnam, will discuss the formation of American national character and American ideals such as democracy, freedom, equality and individualism in different geographical conditions than other nations. |
Weekly Course Content |
Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
1 |
National Beginnings and the Colonial Era: Captain John Smith, A Description of New England |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
2 |
National Beginnings: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
3 |
National Beginnings: Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
4 |
National Beginnings: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
5 |
National Beginnings: Edgar Allan Poe, Tell Tale Heart ve Raven |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
6 |
National Beginnings: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
7 |
Romanticism and Reason: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
8 |
mid-term exam |
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9 |
Romanticism and Reason: Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
10 |
Romanticism and Reason: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
11 |
Romanticism and Reason: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
12 |
Romanticism and Reason: Emily Dickinson, I'm nobody! Who are you? |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
13 |
Romanticism and Reason: Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
14 |
An overview |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer |
15 |
final exam |
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Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
1 |
Gray, R. (2011). A History of American Literature. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell. |
2 |
Bode, Carl (1995). Highlights of American Literature |
3 |
Rozakis, Laurie (1995). Instant American Literature |
Required Course instruments and materials |
Books |