American Literature 3 - AAA220220

• Title: Americká literatura 3
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2012
• Semester: summer
• Points: 6
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/2, C+Ex [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: AAA100220
• Guarantor: Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D.; doc. Justin Quinn, Ph.D.; doc. Erik Sherman Roraback, D.Phil.
• Interchangeability : AAA100220, AAA100221, AAA100223, AAA110231

Annotation

English

LECTURE:
From the 1920s (Quinn, Ulmanová, Roraback 8 weeks)
The following themes are discussed: Lost Generation, Southern Literature, War Novel, Beat Generation, American Jewish Literature, Afro-American Literature, Contemporary American Poetry, Contemporary American Drama, Twentieth-Century American Fiction.

SEMINAR:
OBJECTIVES
The course is focused on important texts of 20th century American literature. 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
F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
The Norton Anthology of American Literature

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:
3) Období od 20. let 20. stol. do současnosti
Modul probírá následující témata: modernistická poezie, "ztracená generace", jižanská literatura, válečný román, generace beatniků, americká židovská literatura, afroamerická literatura, současná americká poezie, próza a drama.
seminář:
V tomto semináři se detailně studují díla čtyř žánrů a základní trendy v americké literární a kulturní historii po roce 1945. Analyzovat se budou též některá výjimečná kritická a teoretická díla, jež se danými spisovateli zabývají.

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)

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (1952).

Toni Morrison: Beloved (1987).

Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966).

J. Kerry Grant: A Companion to the Crying of Lot 49 (The University of Georgia Press, 1994).

Jacqueline Rose: ?Daddy" pp. 205-38 in The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Harvard University Press, 1991)

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Teaching methods

přednáška + seminář

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)

Syllabus

1 Introduction

2 A Streetcar Named Desire

3 Invisible Man, first third + Baker commentary

4 Invisible Man, middle third

5 Invisible Man, last third

6 Sylvia Plath & Rose criticism

7 Elizabeth Bishop + Allan Ginsberg selections in the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2

8 Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard To Find" (Norton), "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (Norton) + Barthes

9 Beloved + criticism of the novel by Woidat

10 Beloved

11 The Crying of Lot 49 + Grant

12 The Crying of Lot 49 + Grant

13 Extracts from Against the Day + Conclusions

Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)