American Literature 2 - II - AAA220211

• Title: Americká literatura 2 - II
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2011
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAA100211
• Guarantor: doc. Justin Quinn, Ph.D.; John T. Matthews; doc. Erik Sherman Roraback, D.Phil.
• Pre-requisite : AAA220040
• Interchangeability : AAA100210, AAA100211, AAA100212, AAA100213, AAA110221

Annotation

English

LECTURE:
2. Early Republic through World War I (Procházka, Quinn, 16 weeks)
The course focuses on some important features of American literature during the period of the search for national identity (the Revolution through the beginning of Civil War), especially on American Romanticism and Transcendentalism. The following period of the search for American democracy (the Civil War through World War I) includes the growth of Realism, Naturalism and Modernism. These developments are discussed in the context of the emergence and re-emergence of literary centers in the South, Mid- and Far West, of regionalism (local color) and of the beginnings of African American literature.

SEMINAR:
OBJECTIVES
The course is focused on important texts in American literature from 1865 to 1914. 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
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2 + supplementary texts

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 (16.07.2007)

Czech

přednáška:
Od tzv. rané republiky po první světovou válku
Modul se zaměřuje na některé význačné rysy americké literatury období hledání národní identity (od revoluce po začátek občanské války), především na americký romantismus a transcendentalismus. Následující období formování americké demokracie (od občanské války po první světovou válku) zahrnuje rozvoj realismu, naturalismu. Vývoj literatury se rozebírá v kontextu vzniku a obnovování literárních center na americkém Jihu, Středozápadě a Dalekém západě, regionalismu a počátků afroamerické literatury.
seminář:
V semináři se detailně analyzují vybrané texty daného období z různých úhlů pohledu. Mezi širší okruhy problémů patří zejména regionalismus, naturalismus, realismus a "genteel tradition", jakož i zrození tzv. nové ženy a modernismus v próze i poezii.

Last update: UAAZNOJE (16.07.2007)

Literature

přednáška:

viz Americká literatura I

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)

Bradbury, Malcolm a Ruland Richard, Od puritanismu k postmodernismu (Praha: Mladá fronta, 1996)

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Teaching methods

přednáška + seminář

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Syllabus

1 Introduction

2 Henry James, pp. 281-84, "The Beast in the Jungle" pp. 341-69 and "The Art of Fiction" pp. 370-84.

3 Kate Chopin, pp. 455-56, The Awakening pp. 467-558 or a single volume copy.

4 Zitkala-Sá (Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin) "An Indian Teacher Among Indians" pp. 846-74; Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author".

5 Gertrude Stein, extract from The Making of Americans pp. 1091-1104; T.S. Eliot, poems pp. 1368-1400.

6 T.S. Eliot poems continued, Marianne Moore, poems pp. 1275-86.

7 F. Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 1495-96 in the Norton Anthology; The Great Gatsby, copies in the library.

8 The Great Gatsby.

9 Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" pp. 1685-1703. An in-class essay will be assigned.

10 Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night pp. 1287-1367 or a single volume copy.

11 William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying pp. 1532-1629 or a single volume copy.

12 As I Lay Dying. A reading test will be given. Conclusions.

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)