Syllabus

NB: Hele pensum er p? nettet eller i Classfronter

I. Vitenskapelige artikler, utdrag fra b?ker, og foredrag p? nettet

  • Agnew, John A. & Sharp, Joanne. “America, Frontier Nation: From Abstract Space to Worldly Place,” in J.A. Agnew and J.M. Smith, American Space/American Place. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 2002.
  • Arendt, Hannah. On revolution and the republic in American Social and Political Thought: A Reader, ed. By A. Hess. New York: NYU, 2003: 119-125.
  • Bercovitz, Sarcan. The American Jeremiad. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press: 2012; orig. pub. 1978: new introduction + excerpt.
  • Berkhofer, R. F. “A New Context for a New American Studies?” American Quarterly 41:4 (Dec 1989) 588-613.
  • Bright, C. & Geyer, M., “Where in the World is America?” in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, Thomas Bender, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 63-99.
  • Deloria, P. J. “Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Paths to an American Studies Future,” American Quarterly 61:1(March 2009) 1-25.
  • Edsall, T. B. The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics (New York: Random House, 2012).
  • Fluck, W. Lecture on Tocqueville, Myth-making and American Studies Today (2010). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1_d7yELRCQ
  • Hardt, M. & Negri, A. Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2001: excerpt.
  • Halttunen, K. ”Groundwork: American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005” American Quarterly, 58:1 (March 2006) 1-15.
  • Kessler-Harris, A. “Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate,” American Quarterly 44:3 (Sep 1992) 299-312
  • Kroes, R. “American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End” in Rethinking American History in a Global Age, Thomas Bender, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 295-313.
  • Kuklick, B. “Myth and Symbol in American Studies,” American Quarterly 24:4 (Oct 1972) pp. 435-450.?
  • Jacoby, Russell. The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. New York: Basic Books, 2000: excerpt
  • Jahr, Ida. The Two (Three, Four) Faces of American Studies – A Historical Perspective http://sunnyamericas.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-two-three-four-faces-of-american-studies-a-historical-perspective/
  • Lasch, Christopher. Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
  • Lipset, S. M. American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 1-10.
  • Moses, C. American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography. http://academic.reed.edu/am_studies/resources/AmStudBibF00.pdf
  • Mumford, Lewis. The Golden Day: A Study in American Experience and Culture. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926: excerpt.
  • Noble, D. W. extract from Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002): xxiii-xlvi, 1-37.
  • Nye, David. America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. Cambridge, Mass: MIT, 2004: excerpt.
  • Pells, Richard. Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated and Transformed American Culture Since WWII. New York: Basic Books, 1997: excerpt.
  • Radway, J. “What’s in a Name?” in The Future of American Studies. Donald Pease & Robyn Wiegman, eds. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), 45-75.
  • Tally, Robert T. Jr. “Believing in America”: The Politics of American Studies in a Postnational Era. http://www.roberttally.com/uploads/4/9/4/0/4940675/believing_in_america.pdf
  • Taylor, Charles. Sources of Self: The Making of Modern Identity. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989: excerpt.
  • Trachtenberg, A. “American Studies as a Cultural Program,” Ideology,” in S. Bercovitch & M Jehlens, eds., Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986): 172-187
  • Vaudagna, M. “American History at Home and Abroad,” Journal of American History 81:3 (Dec 1994) 1157-1168.
  • Watts, S. “The Idiocy of American Studies: Poststructuralism, Language and Politics in an Age of Self-Fulfillment,” American Quarterly 43 (Dec. 1991).
  • White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in 19th-century Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press,1973: excerpt.
  • Wise, G. “’Paradigm Dramas’ In American Studies: A Cultural And Institutional History Of The Movement,” American Quarterly 31:3 (Sept 1979): 293-337.

 

II. Nyttig veiledning p? nettet

  • The Senior Thesis. http://ams.ucdavis.edu/students/senior-thesis

Writing a Master's Thesis or Dissertation Proposal

  • http://www.gwr.arizona.edu/writingproposal1.htm
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