Selected Chapters from American Literature - OPNA1A127B

• Title: Vybrané kapitoly z americké literatury
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2018 to 2018
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (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
• Is provided by: OPNA2A120B
• 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: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

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

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

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. (04.02.2020)

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Blackwell, 2006.

High, Peter B. An Outline of American Literature. Longman, 2007.

Jařab, Josef. Po cestách z neviditelnosti: eseje o afroamerické literatuře a kultuře. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2016.

Levine, Robert S., ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1, Beginnigs to 1865. Shorter ninth edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [2017].

Levine, Robert S., ed. The Norton Anthology of American literature. Volume 2, 1865 to the present. Shorter ninth edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [2017].

Procházka, Martin. Lectures on American Literature. Karolinum, 2007 (2011).

Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016.

Stobaugh, James P. American Literature: Cultural Influences of Early to Contemporary Voices. Green Forest: Master Books, 2018.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Week 1: Introduction to the course

Week 2: The most significant literary offshoots of Colonial and Early Republican era in the United States.

Week 3: Characteristic features of American literary Romanticism, exemplified with reference to fiction, poetry and the dominant philosophy of the era.

Week 4-7: Teaching practice, no classes

Week 8: Easter Monday, no classes

Week 9: Development of Realism and Naturalism in American literature seen as response to the changing social climate, scientific and ideological discourse of the late 19th century.

Week 10: Representative summary of American prose and poetry of the 1910s through early 40s, centred around Modernism and the Lost Generation.

Week 11: The birth and rise of American drama, with an obvious focus on 20th century playwrights.

Week 12: A comprehensive overview of US literature from World War II until the present.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

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

2) Compilation of a reading list based on works of American literature

3) Microteaching of a 10-minute-long activity connected with the themes of the course

4) 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 assigned topics + reception of the teacher’s feedback

Learning resources

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

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