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Post-1945 American Literature – 2024/25 Autumn Course

schedule for LEVELEZŐ group


Time & Space:
13 Sept, 8 Nov, 13 Dec, Fridays, 14-16.15 & 16.30-18.45, Room 203
Course description
The aim of this course is to make students acquainted with an outline of post-war American literature. In class, we read and
analyse texts. The aim is that students would be able to form their own opinion and draw their own conclusions.

The lecture ends with an oral examination in the exam period. The completion of the seminar (a pass seminar mark) is pre-
requisite to the possibility to take the exam. If you fail at the seminar, you cannot take the exam.

Course Requirements
 presence in class – be prepared: you should read the dedicated texts and bring it with you!
o Where it is indicated below, it is enough to read an excerpt from the set text you can find these
excerpts on the Moodle. Also, pls make sure, you research after the whole plot of the novels as well!
(Most certainly, if you choose to read the whole work in these cases as well, you can only profit from
it!)
o Where it is not indicated, the whole work is compulsory reading!
 a presentation during the semester (30%)
o Pls surpass a simply Wikipedia-based authorial biography! Only mention biographical details if you
think they are relevant for your analysis.
o Your presentation should concentrate on 1 aspect of a given work by the author – can be different
from what we read – and follow this aspect through!
o If you present on those texts where excerpts are needed, you should read the whole book!
 Writing of a home essay (30%)
 1800 words, Times New Roman, 1.5 spaced, normal margin - a literary analysis of a chosen
work
 by 22 November the latest (midnight by email)
 the analysed work should be one from the course (if you wish to choose sg. else, pls consult
me)
 Secondary literature should be used and referred to in MLA (books, literary critical articles,
journal studies. Course materials are not accepted)
 NO PLAGIARISM & NO ChatGPT USE is tolerated! If either is detected, the seminar paper
receives a 1
 end-term test (40%)

Course schedule

13 September

 Post-war drama, the American Dream, and feminism in the 1950s - Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman, Edward
Albee: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

 Race and class in the Deep South - Harper Lee: To Kill the Mockingbird (excerpt)

 Post-war trauma, satirical novel - Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five

8 November

 The African-American experience - Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye (excerpt)


 The unreliable narrator - J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
 Working-class experience and the revival of the short story genre - Raymond Carver short stories
13 December

 Postmodernism in prose - Michael Cunningham: The Hours (excerpt)


 Postapocalyptic fiction - Cormac McCarthy: The Road (excerpt)
 Postmodernist poetry - Sylvia Plath: „Lady Lazarus”, Allen Ginsberg: first section from Howl, Charles Olson: ”I,
Maximus of Gloucester, to You”

NAME 13 8 13 presentation essay end- Seminar Oral Final


Sept Nov Dec 30% 30% term mark exam mark
test 40%

Konkoly Liliána

Molnár Márk

Sándor Csilla

Topics for the Oral Exam (American literature after 1945, Ágnes Harasztos)

1. Post-war drama the loss of the American Dream through the analysis of Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
(seminar 2)
2. Post-war American drama, and feminism in the 1950s through the analysis of Edward Albee: Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf (seminar 3)
3. Race and class in the Deep South through the analysis of Harper Lee: To Kill the Mockingbird (seminar 5)
4. Post-war trauma, satirical novel through the analysis of Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five (LEVELEZŐ +
Anyagok)
5. The African-American experience through the analysis of Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye (seminar 6)
6. The unreliable narrator through the analysis of J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (LEVELEZŐ + Anyagok)
7. Working-class experience and the revival of the short story genre through the analysis of Raymond Carver
short stories (seminar 7)
8. Postmodernism in prose through the analysis of Michael Cunningham: The Hours (seminar 8)
9. Postapocalyptic fiction through the analysis of Cormac McCarthy: The Road (seminar 9)
10. Postmodernist poetry through the analysis of Sylvia Plath: „Lady Lazarus”, Allen Ginsberg: first section from
Howl, Charles Olson: ”I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You” (seminar 10)

All the topics are detailed in ppt-s you can find on the Moodle under An 216 II világháború utáni amerikai irodalom,
the subtopics in brackets behind the topics.

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