Introduction to British and American Culture - AAA130120
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Last update: doc. PhDr. Mariana Machová, Ph.D. (11.09.2022)
1. To acquaint students with modern views of culture, multiculturalism, ethnicity, nation and cultural region applied to the English-speaking countries, especially Britain and the U.S. 2. To promote the understanding of the diversity of the English-speaking countries, historical developments and contemporary dynamics of their cultures 3. To outline relationships between literature and communication technologies (writing, printing press). Individual Topics: - Introductory: Concepts and Forms of Culture, Understanding Culture in Britain and in the U.S. - Nation / State - Culture and Communication - Culture and Politics in the UK - Culture and Politics in the UK - Cultural Diversity of the English Speaking Countries: England vs. Britain - Cultural Diversity of the English Speaking Countries: Celtic Cultures - Cultural Diversity of the English Speaking Countries: Commonwealth Countries - Cultural Diversity of the English Speaking Countries: Cultural Regions in the U.S. - Multiculturalism and Ethnicity: "New Britain" problems of national and cultural identity - Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in the U.S. MATERIALS Mandatory: Study materials available to the students who have signed up for the course (i.e. ppt presentations of lectures) on moodle. Recommended reading: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1991)<br> Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings, ed. Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge <br> University Press, 1993)<br> Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent: Transformation of the Symbolic Construction of America (New York: Routledge, <br> 1993)<br> Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)<br> Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly, The Cambridge Companion to Modern<br> Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)<br> Charles Crow (ed.), A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003)<br> Mike Davis, Dead Cities and Other Tales (New York: The New Press 2002)<br> Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature (1975), trans. Dana Polan (Minneapolis: University of <br> Minnesota Press, 1986)<br> Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh (eds.), Reader in Caribbean Literature (London: Routledge, 1996)<br> Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University <br> Press, 1989)<br> Stuart Hall, Paul du Gay (eds.), Questions of Cultural Identity (London: Sage, 1997)<br> Gary J. Hausladen (ed.), Western Places, American Myths: How We Think about the West (Reno and Las Vegas: <br> University of Nevada Press, 2003)<br> Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition (1978) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)<br> John Koch (ed.), Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopaedia (Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2006)<br> P.J. Marshall (ed.), British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)<br> Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962)<br> Eugene Moehring, Urbanism and Empire in the Far West (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2004)<br> Francis Mulhern, Culture/Metaculture (London: Routledge, 2000)<br> Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, Thomas J. Harvey (eds.), Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West <br> (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2003)<br> John Oakland, British Civilization (London: Routledge, 1998)<br> Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Methuen, 1982)<br> Kwesi Owusu (ed.), Black British Culture and Society (London: Routledge, 2000)<br> Martin Procházka (ed.), After History (Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006) <br> Edward Said, Orientalism (London and New York: Routledge, 1978)<br> Anthony D. Smith, The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism (Hanover: University <br> Press of New England, 2000)<br> Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: the Body and the City in the Western Civilization (New York and London: W.W. Norton <br> and Co., 1994)<br> Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)<br> Graeme Turner, British Cultural Studies (London: Routledge,1996)<br> <br> ASSESSMENT<br> Credits will be given on the basis of a final test - multiple choice (pass limit 60 per cent; three dates: December, January/February, May/June, two resits).<br> |