Selected Chapters from American Literature - OEN2301032

• Title: Selected Chapters from American Literature
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.
• Class: Předměty v angličtině - mgr.
• Classification: Teaching > English

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

The aim of this course is to consolidate and deepen the students’ existing knowledge of American literature through complex and cross-section themes and exploring this knowledge in wider historical, social and cultural contexts. The course is conceived as class discussions and students’ presentations based on preceding independent preparation and reading. The main objective of the course is to enable students to relate the selected texts to their wider social, historical and cultural backgrounds.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

Cílem předmětu je konsolidace a zároveň prohloubení znalosti americké literatury. Studenti jsou skrze volbu různých průřezových témat a na nich založené diskusi vedeni k vnímání americké literatury a jejich stěžejních děl v širším historickém, společenském, kulturním, ale rovněž vzdělávacím kontextu.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

Recommended secondary sources:

Bradbury, M., From Puritanism to Postmodernism (New York: Viking Penguin 2001)

Gray, Richard, A History of American Literature (Oxford: Blackwell 2006).

High, Peter B., An Outline of American Literature (London: Longman 2007)

Procházka, M. Lectures on American Literature (Praha: UK, Karolinum 2007 (2011))

 

+ selected texts in Moodle https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5980

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

1. The changing reflections of military conflict in American literature from the colonial period until today.

2. Major tendencies in 19^th- and 20^th- century American poetry.

3. Major developments of American drama.

4. Specific features of hyphenated American literatures.

5. The idiosyncratic literary output of the American South.

6. The short story as a distinctly American cultural phenomenon.

7. Developments of American novel from the 1900s to the 1950s.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

1) Preparation for and active participation in weekly seminars, regular attendance – max. 2 absences

2) A ten-minute long presentation (microteaching) of a literary work

3) A mock state exam essay - a 600-word long essay written in English, against the clock, under the teacher's supervision on one of two asssigned topics + teacher's feedback

Learning resources

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (12.05.2019)

The course in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5980