The Jazz Age
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Course information |
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Title |
The Jazz Age |
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Lecturer |
Kovács Ágnes Zsófia |
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Course code |
check Neptun for all the codes, the YSE Erasmus code is among them |
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Credit |
4 |
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Location |
Check Neptun, not known as yet |
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Time |
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Course description |
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Short description |
The course offers an introduction to US literary production of the 1920s traditionally called the Jazz Age. The 1920s can be characterized by post WW1 hedonistic sentiments and an economic boom ending in the Great Depression in 1928. The Jazz Age is an umbrella term for diverse sorts of intellectual and/or artistic productions between the end of WW1 and the Great Depression: as its name indicates, it is connected to new trends in popular music, but 'jazz' on a more abstract level is present in fine arts and, most importantly for us, in literature as well. F.S. Fitzgerald used the term the jazz age to describe the atmosphere of the decade. At the same time, one should not forget about the major racial revolution of the 20s, the so called Harlem Renaissance or Black Arts Movement. Its major figure, Alain Locke, writes about the way African Americans can change their social position in his "The New Negro." In our readings, we are to trace literary pieces both of Fizgerald's "Jazz age" and of Locke's "New Negro Movement." Eventually, we are to have a glimpse at the broader intellectual context of the age. Readings will include Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Yezierska, Cather, Hughes, Larsen, and Hurston.
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Schedule |
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Semester |
2018/9 fall |
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Requirements |
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Requirements to get the grade |
requirements and evaluation journals: 30% presentation: 30 % end-term seminar paper: 40%
grading 1-50=1, 51-64=2, 65-78=3, 79-90=4, 91-100=5
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Reading list |
Susan V. Donaldson's Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914 (NY: Twayne, 1998), A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914, edited by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005). Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern American Novel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992 (1983).
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Suggested reading list |
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Friss Hírek
