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From the 1920s (Quinn, Ulmanová, Roraback 8 weeks) The following themes are discussed: Lost Generation, Southern Literature, War Novel, Beat Generation, American Jewish Literature, Afro-American Literature, Contemporary American Poetry, Contemporary American Drama, Twentieth-Century American Fiction. SEMINAR: OBJECTIVES The course is focused on important texts of 20th century American literature. While preference will be given to poems and short prose pieces all students will be expected to read at least two novels to allow the class to discuss them as a whole. MATERIAL F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury The Norton Anthology of American Literature ASSESSMENT Record of attendance will be kept. To receive their credits all students will be obliged to make oral presentations. Graded essays of 2,000-3,000 words (písemná práce) will be evaluated separately. Last update: UAAZNOJE (04.03.2004)
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přednáška: Procházka, Martin a kol., Lectures on American Literature (Praha: Karolinum, 2002) The Norton Anthology of American Literature, sv. I a II. (New York: Norton, 2001) Bradbury, Malcolm a Richard, Ruland, Od puritanismu k postmodernismu (Praha: Mladá fronta, 1996) Bhabha, H., "The Other Question. Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism," in: The Location of Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1994) Boorstin, D., The Americans: the National Experience (New York: Random House, 1965) Chinard, G., Thomas Jefferson. The Apostle of Americanism (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1957) Cookson, W., A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (London: Croom Helm, 1985) Cowley, M., Exile´s Return (New York: Penguin, 1979) Davie, D., Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965) Duban, J., Melville's Major Fiction. Politics, Theology, and Imagination (Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1983) Garbo, N.S., The Coincidental Art of Charles Brockden Brown (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981) Gates, H.L., Jr. and N.Y. McKay et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1997) Goodwyn, J.B., "Resource Notes," in Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence ed. J.B. Goodwyn, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995) Hart, J.D., The Oxford Companion to American Literature (5th ed.) (New York: Oxford UP, 1983) Heaney, S., (1988) The Government of the Tongue London: Faber and Faber, Jehlen M., Bercovitch S. (eds.), Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986) Kenner H., The Pound Era (London: Faber and Faber, 1971) Lacan, J., Écrits. A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W.W.Norton & Co., 1977) Millican, E., One United People. The Federalist Papers and the National Idea (Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1990) Patterson, M.R., Authority, Autonomy and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1988) Riddell, J.N., The Inverted Bell: Modernism and the Counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams Baton Rouge: (Louisiana State University Press, 1974) Slotkin, R., "Introduction", in: J.F. Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986) Smith, H.N., "Symbol and Idea in Virgin Land," in M. Jehlen and S. Bercovitch (eds.), Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1987) Sollors, W., Beyond Ethnicity (New York: Oxford UP, 1986) Traversi, D., T.S. Eliot: Longer Poems (London: Bodley Head, 1976) von Hallberg, R., Cambridge History of American Literature vol. 8. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) Warner, M., The Letters of the Republic. Publication in 18th Century America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990) Wills, G., Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1978) Wilson, E, The Shores of Light New York: (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1952) seminář: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2 (Fifth edition, New York: Norton, 2001). Martin Procházka a kol., Lectures on American Literature (Praha: Karolinum, 2002) Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
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přednáška + seminář Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
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1 Introduction 2 A Streetcar Named Desire 3 Invisible Man, first third + Baker commentary 4 Invisible Man, middle third 5 Invisible Man, last third 6 Sylvia Plath & Rose criticism 7 Elizabeth Bishop + Allan Ginsberg selections in the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2 8 Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard To Find" (Norton), "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (Norton) + Barthes 9 Beloved + criticism of the novel by Woidat 10 Beloved 11 The Crying of Lot 49 + Grant 12 The Crying of Lot 49 + Grant 13 Extracts from Against the Day + Conclusions Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)
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