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Academic Year 2024
College College of Arts
Course Code AM110
Theme・Subtitle 19 世紀アメリカ文学における「奇妙な家族」
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Seminar
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Mon.4・1103
Credit 2
Course Number EAL3813
Language Others
Class Registration Method "Other" Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
course cancellation ×(履修中止不可/ Not eligible for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
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Text Code AM110

【Course Objectives】

Students in this course will improve their reading comprehension skills through conducting an intensive reading ofAmerican literary works and build their interpretations with a conscious understanding of the work’s background,
historical period, and literary contexts. In addition, students will cultivate their logical writing skills through weekly response papers.

【Course Contents】

 What does "family" mean in the United States? From its founding to the present, the family has continued to function as an important political metaphor in the United States. For the United States, which rebelled against its mother country, Great Britain, and was born as a "young child independent of its parents," the family naturally reflects the image of the nation. The fact that Jefferson, Washington, and other politicians involved in the founding of the nation embodied the ideals of the American nation and are referred to as the "founding fathers" can be seen as an example of the politicization of the family system.
 Turning to nineteenth-century American literature, there are many depictions of "strange families" that are far from the idealized and normative image of the family. In this seminar, we will spend a semester reading famous short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and others. By examining the family as it deviates from the normative image of the family, we hope to develop a critical eye for the American family and the modern social institution of the "family.”

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