مقدمة في الأدب الأمريكي عمادة التعلم الإلكتروني والتعليم عن بعد اسم المقرر: مقدمة في الأدب الأمريكي استاذ المقرر د/ عبدالله البدارنه جامعة الملك فيصل عمادة التعلم الإلكتروني والتعليم عن بعد كلية الآداب 1

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Instructor: Dr. Abdullah Al-Badarneh English 487 King Faisal University Deanship of E-Learning & Distance Education Department of English Language Tentative Course Syllabus Course: Introduction to American Lit. Instructor: Dr. Abdullah Al-Badarneh English 487

COURSE OBJECTIVES: The course aims at exposing the students of English language and literature to different literary and cultural dimensions of the American literature. Throughout the wide scope of reading, the course aims at giving the students an ample opportunity to trace the development of American literature and its transition to have its own independence and tradition. The course aims at exposing the students to the intercultural nature of the American literature that encompasses people of different origins from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Mexico. One of the main objectives of the course is to develop the student's literary taste and analytical and critical skills.

TEXTBOOKS: - Murphy, F, H. Parker et. Al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 1. New York & London: Norton & Co. (recent edition) - Bayn, Nina, et. al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. 2. New York & London: Norton & Co. (recent edition) - Abrams, M.H. et.al. eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol. 1. London & New York: Norton & Company. (Recent Edition) - Emerson, Everett (Editor), Major Writers of Early American Literature -Various Internet Websites

EVALUATION: Topics for Discussion Quizzes Live Lectures Final Exam Total 10 70 100 points

Course Plan: Topic Week - Week One -  Week Two -  Week Three -  Week Four  - Week Five   - Week Six Topic General and Brief Introduction to American Literature Colonial Literature Romanticism Realism Naturalism Modernism

- Week Seven - Week Eight - Week Nine - Week Ten - Week Eleven - Week Twelve - Week Thirteen - Week Fourteen 7- Harlem Renaissance Poetry: Because I Could Not Stop for Death & 8- Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson 9- Fiction: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin 10- Fiction: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 11- Fiction: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 12- Fiction: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 13- Drama: Trifles by Susan Glaspell's 14- Course Revision

Contact me: E-mail: aalbadarneh@kfu.edu.sa

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