מעודכן ליום ראשון 21 באוגוסט 2005

0626.2072  AMERICAN REALISM AND NATURALISM
SHAMIR, DrAdvanced course
The terms “Realism” and “Naturalism” are used in the context of American culture to describe the dominant literary styles of American fiction during the period between the Civil War and the beginning of the Twentieth Century. In this course we will analyze these two styles in relation to social and political changes in the US in this period: the increasing rate of democracy and literacy, industrial and urban growth, expanding population base due to immigration, Reconstruction and segregation, and changes in the role of women.

TEXTS:
Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Frank Norris, McTeague
Kate Chopin, Short Stories
Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

REQUIREMENTS:
Short papers, final paper, short final exam.

הערות: Semester I
מועדי הבחינות:
מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 10/02/2005 בשעה 12:30
מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום 01/06/2005 בשעה 18:00