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The course is designed to offer an intensive reading program in U.S. American literary and cultural history. It prepares students for teaching a tutorial in U.S. American literary history and allows them to gain a more comprehensive overview of American literature or to specialize in a particular period, genre, etc. Selected primary texts of particular importance for the tutorials will be discussed in class with a particular focus on central issues in American Studies as well as different ways of reading U.S.-American literature and culture. Recommended Reading: The course will be based primarily on the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Edition . |
