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Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities Program Lecture Code WMBP8601 Subject Classification Specialized Education Subject Name 英語圏文学作品演習Ｂ Subject Name
（Katakana）エイゴケンブンガクサクヒンエンシュウB Subject Name in
EnglishSeminar on Fiction in English B Instructor VALLINS DAVID MCNEILL Instructor
(Katakana)ヴァリンズ デイヴィッド マクニール Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year, First Semester, 1Term Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1T) Inte：See the bulletin board for detail. Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
(More Details)The classes will consist mainly of lectures on the poems and critical essays, and discussion of related topics. Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week Language of Instruction E : English Course Level 6 : Graduate Advanced Course Area（Area） 23 : Arts and Humanities Course Area（Discipline） 05 : Literature Eligible Students Keywords Special Subject for Teacher Education Special Subject Class Status
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(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)Class Objectives
/Class OutlineThe purpose of the course is to study a selection of nineteenth-century American poetry. Class Schedule 1. Introduction
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, selected poems (1)
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, selected poems (2),
4.Henry David Thoreau, selected poems
5. Walt Whitman, ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’
6. Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’ (selections)
7. Andrew Lawson, ‘“Song of Myself” and the Class Struggle in Language’, Textual Practice,
18: 3 (2004), pp. 377-394.
8. Walt Whitman, ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’
9. Walt Whitman, ‘Passage to India’
10. Herman Melville, selected poems (1)
11. Herman Melville, selected poems (2)
12. Rosanna Warren, "Dark Knowledge: Melville's Poems of the Civil War," Raritan 19 (1999),
pp. 100-121.
13. Emily Dickinson, selected poems (1)
14. Emily Dickinson, selected poems (2)
15. Shira Wolosky, “Public and Private in Emily Dickinson's War Poetry,” in A Historical Guide
to Emily Dickinson, ed. Vivian Pollack (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 103-
131.
The course will study a number of leading American poets of the nineteenth century, such as Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, and Dickinson, particularly exploring their relation to contemporary culture and society, their formal and stylistic innovations, and their relation to literary and intellectual trends in the period. Students will be assigned texts which will be analyzed in detail in the classes, together with critical essays illustrating a variety of approaches to the poems.Text/Reference
Books,etc.Hyperlinks to the texts will be provided. PC or AV used in
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ReviewStudents should prepare for the classes by studying the poems and essays assigned in advance. Requirements None Grading Method Students will be assessed on the basis of in-class participation and an essay. Practical Experience Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it Message Other Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
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