Selected Chapters from American Literature - OPNA1A127B

• Title: Vybrané kapitoly z americké literatury
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: OPNA2A120B
• 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. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

The aim of this course is to consolidate and deepen the students’ existing knowledge of American literature through complex and cross-section themes and explored in wider historical, social and cultural contexts. The course is conceived as class discussions and students’ presentations based on preceding independent preparation and reading.

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Czech

Cílem předmětu je konsolidace a zároveň prohloubení znalosti americké literatury. Studenti jsou skrze volbu různých průřezových témat a na nich založené diskusi vedeni k vnímání americké literatury a jejich stěžejních děl v širším historickém, společenském, kulturním, ale rovněž vzdělávacím kontextu.

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Course completion requirements

English

1) Preparation for and active participation in weekly seminars, regular attendance – max. 2 absences

2) Compilation of a reading list based on works of American literature

3) Microteaching of a 10-minute-long activity connected with the themes of the course

4) A mock state exam essay: a 600-word long essay written in English, against the clock, under the teacher's supervision on one of two assigned topics + reception of the teacher’s feedback

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Czech

1) Příprava a aktivní účast na seminářích, max. 2 absence

2) Vytvoření seznamu četby založeném na dílech americké literatury

3) prezentace aktivity spojené s tématy probíranými v kurzu

4) státnicová esej na zkoušku a zpětná vazba od učitele: podmínky jsou v Moodlu a v anglické verzi podmínek zakončení předmětu

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Literature

English

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Blackwell, 2006.

High, Peter B. An Outline of American Literature. Longman, 2007.

Jařab, Josef. Po cestách z neviditelnosti: eseje o afroamerické literatuře a kultuře. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2016.

Levine, Robert S., ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume 1, Beginnigs to 1865. Shorter ninth edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [2017].

Levine, Robert S., ed. The Norton Anthology of American literature. Volume 2, 1865 to the present. Shorter ninth edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, [2017].

Procházka, Martin. Lectures on American Literature. Karolinum, 2007 (2011).

Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016.

Stobaugh, James P. American Literature: Cultural Influences of Early to Contemporary Voices. Green Forest: Master Books, 2018.

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to the course

Week 2: The most significant literary offshoots of Colonial and Early Republican era in the United States.

Week 3: Characteristic features of American literary Romanticism, exemplified with reference to fiction, poetry and the dominant philosophy of the era.

Week 4-7: Teaching practice, no classes

Week 8: Easter Monday, no classes

Week 9: Development of Realism and Naturalism in American literature seen as response to the changing social climate, scientific and ideological discourse of the late 19th century.

Week 10: Representative summary of American prose and poetry of the 1910s through early 40s, centred around Modernism and the Lost Generation.

Week 11: The birth and rise of American drama, with an obvious focus on 20th century playwrights.

Week 12: A comprehensive overview of US literature from World War II until the present.

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Learning resources

The course in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5980

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (04.02.2020)