20th-Century American Literature II - JMM349

• Title: 20th-Century American Literature II
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2008 to 2012
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (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
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Jiří Hanuš
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Jiří Hanuš
• Pre-requisite : JMM348

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Hanuš (14.02.2019)

This course, conducted in English, will introduce the students to the period of American writing that saw an explosion of various approaches to fiction and poetry, reflecting dramatic changes in American society. Basic orientation in the various streams of postwar writing, from the confessional mainstream novel through the Beats to experimental prose and postmodern writing. The diversity of styles in this period corresponds to the increasingly complex picture of the American society and reflects its complexity.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Hanuš (14.02.2019)

Samples of literary texts will be provided to the students by e-mail as well as notes and commentaries.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Hanuš (14.02.2019)

The explosion of American writing after 1950

 

The course will provide the students with basic orientation in the various streams of postwar prose and poetry, from the confessional mainstream novel through the Beats to experimental prose and postmodern writing. The diversity of styles in this period corresponds to the increasingly complex picture of the American society and reflects its complexity. Listed are the authors samples of whose writing will be read in the class.

 

Introduction

James Baldwin

Vladimir Nabokov

J. D. Salinger

Beat Movement

Ken Kesey

Saul Bellow

Philip Roth

John Updike

Joyce Carol Oates

Tony Morrison

John Irving  

Tom Robbins