TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	3
SEMESTER	Sixth Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	6
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to identify how the modern American novel reflects the major events of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Second World War.
MODE OF DELIVERY	E-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course examines American fiction within the context of various literary currents and major historical events from the beginning of the twentieth century to the 1940s.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week General introduction: A social, cultural, political, and literary overview of America in the 1920s and 1930s. 2nd Week Ernest Hemingway?s pragmatics of fiction, and a close study of his novel The Sun Also Rises. 3rd Week (Continued) 4th Week F. Scott Fitzgerald?s art of the novel and his novel The Great Gatsby 5th Week (Continued) 6th Week Midterm Examination 7th Week John Steinbeck?s socio-political novel The Grapes of Wrath: An in-depth study. 8th Week (Continued) 9th Week William Faulkner and the South: A close study of his novel AS I Lay Dying 10th Week (Continued) 11th Week (Continued) 12th Week General review and conclusions
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Young, Thomas Daniel, Modern American Fiction: Form and Function. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945: A Critical History. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. Wagner-Martin, Linda, ed. New Essays on The Sun Also Rises. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Fenstermaker, John. `Hemingway's Modernism: Exploring Its Victorian Roots.? South Atlantic Review, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 77-92. Bond, Adrian. `The Way It Wasn't in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises?. The Journal of Narrative Technique. Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter, 1998), pp. 56-74. McCormick, John. `Patriots, Expatriates, and Scoundrels?. The Sewanee Review. Vol. 105, No. 3 (Summer, 1997), pp. 341-355. Hart, Jeffrey. `The Sun Also Rises: A Revaluation.? The Sewanee Review. Vol. 86, No. 4 (Fall, 1978), pp. 557-562. Callahan, John F. ?F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving American Dream: The "Pursuit of Happiness" in Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and The Last Tycoon.? Twentieth Century Literature. Vol. 42, No. 3 (Autumn, 1996), pp. 374-395. Carringer, Robert L. "Citizen Kane", "The Great Gatsby", and Some Conventions of American Narrative. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Winter, 1975), pp. 307-325. Spiegel, Alan. ?A Theory of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction.? The Georgia Review, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter 1972), pp. 426-437. Fruscione, Joseph. ?Hemingway, Faulkner and the Clash of Reputations.? New England Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2012), pp. 62-79. Yates, Norris W. ?What Makes the Modern American Novel Modern?? Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien, Bd. 11 (1966), pp. 59-68. Cruz, Frank Eugene. "In Between a Past and Future Town": Home, The Unhomely, and "The Grapes of Wrath." The Steinbeck Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 2007), pp. 52-75. Motley, Warren. ?From Patriarchy to Matriarchy: Ma Joad's Role in The Grapes of Wrath.? American Literature, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Oct., 1982), pp. 397-412. Robert Murray Davis. ?The World of John Steinbeck's Joads.? World Literature Today, Vol. 64, No. 3, O.U. Centennial Issue (Summer, 1990), pp. 401-404. Jenn Williamson. "HIS HOME IS NOT THE LAND": CARETAKING, DOMESTICITY, AND GENDER IN THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Modern Language Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2 (WINTER 2011), pp. 38-57. Betty Alldredge. Spatial Form in Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying". The Southern Literary Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Fall, 1978), pp. 3-19. Dorothy J. Hale. "As I Lay Dying's" Heterogeneous Discourse. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 5-23. Stephen M. Ross. ?Shapes of Time and Consciousness in As I Lay Dying?. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Winter 1975), pp. 723-737.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Presentation,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No