American Romancers after Hawthorne - AAA500314

• Title: Americká romance po Hawthornovi
• Guaranteed by: Ústav anglistiky a amerikanistiky (21-UAA)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2007
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• 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: not taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
An examination of the practitioners of the American romance tradition who built upon the distinction, made by Nathaniel Hawthorne, between "romances" and "fictions" (novels).

MATERIAL
Henry James: The Europeans
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Man
Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

ASSESSMENT
to be specified.

Last update: UAAZNOJE (06.10.2006)