This course provides a foundational overview of American literature, spanning from revolutionary writings to the emergence of distinct literary movements. Topics include revolutionary literature, transcendentalism, romanticism, and a focus on Walt Whitman as a significant voice. The latter part of the course delves into regional realism and naturalism. Expect a comprehensive exploration of key literary periods and figures that have shaped the American literary landscape.

This course aims to

1. introduce students to the basic tenets and concepts of twentieth-century literary theories.

2. help students to apply literary theories to the analysis of different types of literary texts.

Linguists consider the discourse level the apex of linguistic description. The enterprise of Discourse Analysis is to study and reveal the regularities of language that surpass the sentence_ the traditional ‘highest’ unit of description _ and that encompass the context of its use. Discourse Analysis is interdisciplinary in nature and has applications in several fields to which language has a particular relevance.


American Politics and its various aspects and operational layers within and outside the US system of government constitute one the basics in the study of United States (civilization, history, and society). The course introduces the basics of the US system of government to Master 1 students of Anglophone Studies specialized in Literature and Civilization.