TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to consider how popular texts are consumed by ordinary readers, 2) will be able to understand the relationship between popular texts and the institutions that produce and market them.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course is a historical survey of American popular literature from the colonial period to the present. The texts studied during the course will be analyzed in the light of cultural and literary contexts in which they were written and will be accompanied by critical and theoretical readings. Particular attention will be paid to genres such as captivity narratives, dime novels, westerns and hard-boiled fiction.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction to the Course 2nd Week The Colonial Period: Indian Captivity Narratives 3rd Week The Colonial Period: Indian Captivity Narratives 4th Week Sentimental Literature of the 19th Century: Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin. 5th Week Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin. 6th Week The Dime Novel: Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick. 7th Week The Dime Novel: Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick. 8th Week Revision and Mid-term Examination 9th Week The Western Novel 10th Week The Western Novel 11th Week Hard-Boiled Fiction: Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely. 12th Week Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely 13th Week Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon. 14th Week Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Bloom, Clive. Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory. London: Macmillan, 1996. Buhle, Paul. Popular Culture in America. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987. Haut, Woody. Pulp Culture: Hard Boiled Fiction and the Cold War. New York: Serpent's Tail, 1995. Hicken, Mandy. Now Read On: A Guide to Contemporary Popular Fiction. Aldershot: Gower, 1990. Long, Elizabeth. The American Dream and the Popular Novel. Boston: Routledge, 1985. McCraken, Scott. Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction. New York: Manchester UP, 1998. McQuade, Donald, and Robert Atwan. Popular Writing in America: the Interaction of Style and Audience. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Rzepka, Charles J. Detective Fiction. Cambridge: Polity, 2005. Smith, Erin A. Hard-Boiled: Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000. Springer, John Paris. Hollywood Fictions: The Dream Factory in American Popular Literature. Norman: U of Oklahama P, 2000.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Project,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Project 1 25 Presentation of Article 1 15 Total(%) 70 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 70 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 30 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No