American Literature 1900-1950 - JTM242

• Title: American Literature 1900-1950
• Czech title: American Literature 1900-1950
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 26 / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• 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. Jiří Hanuš
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Jiří Hanuš
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

This course, conducted in English, will introduce the students to the period of American writing that saw an arrival of new form and new content in the 1920s and a new focus on the socially indigenous in the 1930s. 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.

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (24.09.2024)

Aim of the course

To acquire basic idea about the US literary scene during the first and second half of the 20th century.

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (24.09.2024)

Course completion requirements

Grading is based on the Dean's Measure no. 20/2019: https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-measure-no-20/2019

• 91% and more   => A
• 81-90%             => B
• 71-80%             => C
• 61-70%             => D
• 51-60%             => E
• 0-50%               => F

More in SMĚRNICE S_SO_002: Organizace zkouškových termínů, kontrol studia a užívání klasifikace A–F na FSV UK.

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (24.09.2024)

Literature

The Columbia History of the American Novel
Richard Ruland, Malcolm Bradbury: From Puritanism to Postmodernism
Oxford Companion to American Literature
Frederick Karl: American Fictions

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (24.09.2024)

Teaching methods

Discussion of the given writer's life and work, followed by close reading and discussion of one of his or her texts (short story, sample of a novel, a poem).

 

This seminar will be taught in presence in Jinonice.

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (24.09.2024)

Requirements to the exam

Knowledge of key facts about the writer's life and work and his position in the given literary period. Active participation in discussions and regular attendance of the course.

Grading is based on the Dean's Measure no. 20/2019: https://fsv.cuni.cz/deans-measure-no-20/2019

• 91% and more   => A
• 81-90%             => B
• 71-80%             => C
• 61-70%             => D
• 51-60%             => E
• 0-50%               => F

 

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (24.09.2024)

Syllabus

Updated for WS 2024/25.

Introduction
Ernest Hemingway
Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos
William Faulkner
Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Harlem Renaissance
John Steinbeck
Erskine Caldwell and Nathaniel West
E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams
Eugene O\'Neil
-----------------------summer term---------
Introduction
Saul Bellow
Philip Roth
Vladimir Nabokov
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlingetti
Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Richard Brautigan
John Updike
William Styron
Joyce Carol Oates, Tony Morrison, Ann Tyler
Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut
John Irving
Tom Robbins

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (24.09.2024)