Present-Day America in American Fiction - JMM620

• Title: Present-Day America in American Fiction
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2011 to 2011
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 50 / unknown (10)
• 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 (22.12.2011)

This course, conducted in English, will introduce the students to current works of fiction originating in the U.S. and
assess their relation to the wider society as a whole.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Hanuš (22.12.2011)

Saul Bellow: Mr Sammler's Planet

Don DeLillo: White Noise

Philip Roth: The Human Stain

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Hanuš (22.12.2011)

Picture of contemporary America in:

Saul Bellow: Mr Sammler's Planet

Don DeLillo: White Noise

Philip Roth:´The Human Stain (various themes)