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Course, academic year 2016/2017
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American Literature to the End of the 19th Century - OB2301013
Title: Americká literatura do konce 19. st.
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2015
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity: 80 / 79 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2325
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Josef Grmela, CSc.
Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : OB2301012
Is pre-requisite for: OB2301014, OSOZ2AA, OSOZ2A
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Last update: ZENISEK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (04.10.2015)
Course profile: This course aims to give the students a general outline of the most significant events in American literature, focusing largely, but not exclusively, on canonical authors. These seminars complement lectures which reside in presenting a particular literary movement, including its social and cultural background. These are then followed by a close reading session which focuses on the selected seminar texts (short stories, plays, novels/extracts etc.). The lectures provide a theoretical context for an understanding of Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism; the seminars focus on an interpretation of most important works of the period. Requirements: 80% attendance (2 unexplained absences are permissible); Either a short handwritten essay (450 words), written against the clock at the end of the term, or a longer typewritten essay (1300 words) on one of the assigned topics.
Literature - Czech
Last update: ZENISEK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (04.10.2015)

Doporučená literatura:

  1. Ruland, R., Bradbury, M. From Puritanism to Postmodernism, New York: Viking Penguin, 1991. ISBN-13: 978-0140144352.
  2. Procházka, M., Quinn, J., Ulmanová, H., Roraback, E. Lectures on American Literature. Praha, 2002. ISBN 9788024619965.
  3. High, Peter, An Outline of American Literature, London: Longman, 2007
  4. Lauter, P., Yarborough, R., Cheung, K., Molesworth, C.  The Heath Anthology of American literature, Early Nineteenth Century: 1800 - 1865, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. ISBN-13: 9780618532988.
  5. Lauter, P., Yarborough, R., Alberti, J., Brady, M. The Heath Anthology of American literature: Volume A: the Beginnings to 1900, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. ISBN: 0-618-54250-7.
  6. Lauter, P., Yarborough, R., Bayer, J., Molesworth, C., Cheung, K. The Heath Anthology of American literature: Volume C: Late Nineteenth Century, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. ISBN-13: 9780618532995.
  7. Gates, H.L., McKay, N. The Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. ISBN-13: 978-0393911558
 
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