Annotation
The aim of this course is to consolidate and deepen the students’ existing knowledge of American literature through complex and cross-section themes and explored in wider historical, social and cultural contexts. Themes:
1. Literary production of Colonial and Early Republican era in the United States
2. Characteristic features of American literary Romanticism
3. Development of Realism and Naturalism in American literature
4. American prose and poetry of the 1910s through early 40s, centred around Modernism and the Lost Generation.
5. The development of American drama
6. A comprehensive overview of US literature from World War II until the present