| 0626.3018 TRAVEL LITERATURE | |
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| SHAMIR, Dr. M | BA Advanced Course |
| Analyzing the writing of explorers, travelers, and tourists from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, this seminar will trace the development of American literature and culture in a transnational context. It will use tools borrowed from narratology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and postcolonial theory to analyze the meeting of cultures, the role of alterity in the creation of the self, and the trope of the journey. Its themes will include: discovery and encounter, conquest and colonization, home/homelessness, tourism and modernity, borders and hybridity.
PRIMARY TEXTS: Christopher Columbus, Letters John Smith, from The General History of Virginia Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration Edgar Allen Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad Hemingway, Short Stories Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky Ann Tyler, Accidental Tourist SECONDARY TEXTS: By Stephen Greenblatt, M. Louise Pratt, Dean MacCannell, Sigmund Freud, James Clifford, Julia Kristeva, and others. REQUIREMENTS: Short written assignments, class participation and presentation, seminar paper. | |
| הערות: Second Semester | |
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| מועד א' של סמסטר ב' הוא בחינת-בית או עבודה שלא נקבע עבורה תאריך. | |
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