| 0626.4056 ריאליזם בספרות אמריקנית | |
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| פרופ חנה וירט נשר | סמינר מ.א |
| This course will examine Realism in American literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in terms of literary history, genre, narrative strategies, social history, social theory, and psychology. Literary works will include prose fiction by Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, James, Gilman, and Cahan, as well as critical and theoretical readings. Among the topics that will be addressed are place and space, speech representation, dialect and local color writing, objects, and concepts of character.
Literary Works Henry James, The Bostonians (and another short work by James) Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie Abraham Cahan, Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Critical and Theoretical Readings (specific works to be listed at a later date) Among the authors we will be reading: Freud, William James, Vernon Parrington, Rene Wellek, Lionel Trilling, Harry Levin, Walter Benn Michaels, and Eric Sundquist. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |