|
|
|
||
|
Last update: PhDr. Eva Kalivodová, Ph.D. (01.10.2017)
<br> Conditions of attending the course for credits: 75% presence and active participation in the course based on reading according to instructions; 10-minute oral presentation on one of the assigned topics in classes 11.-13. The course consisting of the lecture part given by Prof. Opatrný and this seminar part taught by dr. Kalivodová is concluded by a twofold exam which consists in a short written test examining topics covered by dr. Kalivodová and another part specified by Prof. Opatrný. The two parts are assessed by one grade. |
|
||
|
Last update: PhDr. Eva Kalivodová, Ph.D. (01.10.2017)
Conditions of passing the SEMINAR course: 75% presence and active participation in classes based on reading assignments. During the semester, each student will give a 10-minute oral presentation on the afterlife (up to the present) of some particular historical facts, events or notions, always in a session following the one that´s the inspiration Without an exception in session 11). Some tips are given in the syllabus. The SEMINAR course and the LECTURE course “Dějiny a kultura II” are concluded by a twofold exam which consists in a short written test examining topics covered by dr. Kalivodová and another part specified by Prof. Opatrný. The two parts are assessed by one grade. |
|
||
|
Last update: PhDr. Eva Kalivodová, Ph.D. (01.10.2017)
Základní literatura (SEMINAR COURSE):
Primární zdroje (viz TAKÉ sylabus)
O’Brien, T., Making the Americas, New Mexico University Press 2007
Opatrný, J., Amerika v proměnách staletí, LIBRI, Praha 1998
Opatrný, J., S. Raková, USA, LIBRI, Praha 2003
Tindall, G. B., Shi, D.E., Dějiny států USA, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Praha 1994
Cunliffe, M. The Literature of the United States. Reprint. Penguin Books: London, 1991.
Inge, M. T. A Nineteenth-Century American Reader. USAI 1987
Kerber, L. K., Kessler-Harris, A., Kish Sklar, K. U. S. History as Women´s History. Chapel Hill and London, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995
Lemay, A. L. (ed.) An Early American Reader. USAI 1991
Marcus G., Sollors, W. (eds.) A New Literary History of America. Harvard: Harvard Univ. Press, 2009.
Takaki, R., A Different Mirror. A History of Multicultural America. Boston-N.Y.-London, Little, Brown and Co., 1993
Zinn, H. A People’s History of the United States. HarperCollins, 2003
An Outline of American History. USIA 1994 2003 |
|
||
|
Last update: PhDr. Eva Kalivodová, Ph.D. (01.10.2017)
The course consisting of the lecture part given by Prof. Opatrný and the seminar part taught by dr. Kalivodová is concluded by a twofold exam which consists in a short written test examining topics covered by dr. Kalivodová and another part specified by Prof. Opatrný. The two parts are assessed by one grade.
The short written test (from the SEMINAR COURSE) will require the knowledge of texts assigned for reading in the seminar course (including contexts and interpretation) PLUS the knowledge of topics from stUdents´presentations). The reading of historical and literary historical literature (see "Literatura, SEMINAR COURSE") may help consolidate the knowledge of primary sources. |
|
||
|
Last update: PhDr. Eva Kalivodová, Ph.D. (01.10.2017)
Abbreviations used in the syllabus, SEMINAR COURSE:
EAR - Early American Reader, ed. J.A. Leo Lamay, (publ. by USIA, Washington D.C. 1988)
19CAR - 19th c. American Reader, ed. T. Inge (publ. by USIA, Washington D.C. 1988)
The Makings of America..., vol. I – D. C. Heath and Co.: The Makings of America: The United States and the World. Vol. II: To 1865. Lexington, D. C. Heath and Co. 1993.
Basic Readings in US Democracy – Melvin I. Urofsky, Basic Readings in US Democracy, Washington D.C.: United States Information Agency, 1995
Heath; Norton – Heath and Norton Anthologies of American Literature
Ant. –J. Jařab, E. Masnerová, R. Nenadál: Antologie americké literatury, Praha, SPN 1985.
SYLLABUS:
1.Two early English settlements in North America: Jamestown; New England.
READING:
The Mayflower Compact (1620), in Ant.
Anne Bradstreet: O Bubble blast,… (from the poem „Upon a Fit of Sickness“, 1632), accessible on internet
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: Pocahontas; Thanksgiving
2. Rationalist influence upon the society. Development towards the statehood.
READING: Benjamin Franklin: “The Speech of Sidi Mehemet Ibraham” (In: EAR)
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: American Dream; Self-improvement by Benjamin Franklin (on the basis of a part of his Autobiography, in EAR 105-115); the bachelor thesis of B. Schůtová (extract to be specified): KOMENTOVANÝ PŘEKLAD "The Book in the New Republic", 2. kap. (část) in Davidson, Cathy N., Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, Oxford Univ. Press 1988. SIS
3. American Revolution, and those who were not liberated.
READING: “The Declaration of Independence”, in EAR
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: “A Kind of Revolution”, In: Howard Zinn, A People´s History of the United States, 2003, p. 77-102. ON RESERVE WITH THE LIBRARIAN
4. Attempts at reforms in the mid-19th c. NO CLASS (THE TEACHER IS ON AN ERASMUS WORK TRIP), INDIVIDUAL STUDY
READING: The Declarations of Sentiments (In: The Makings of America..., vol. I) Read The Declaration of Sentiments from a meeting in Seneca Falls, 1848 (one of the first texts of American feminism; notice the signatures and the name of Frederick Douglass among them, find out who he was) and The Declaration of Sentiments, composed by leading abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison in 1833. In Basic Readings in US Democracy, ON RESERVE WITH THE LIBRARIAN. Both texts are evidence of how the Declaration of Independence as a culture-founding text shaped the political and social thought of those in the opposition to the mainstream policies.
WRITE A SHORT ESSAY (2 standard pages maximum) in which you´ll point out 2 demands of the political forces behind each of the Declarations that you find most striking/important in the given historical context of the mid-19th century. Essays to be SUBMITTED ON THE 30TH OCTOBER.
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: the aftermath of these important texts – in the context of feminism; slavery/abolitionism (to be delivered in class 5 or 6)
5. Beginning literary reflections upon American society in imaginative literature.
READING: W. Irving: “Rip Van Winkle” (a short story, In: EAR, and other anthologies)
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by W. Irving, possible with extract/s from movie adaptations)
6. A vein of American romanticism: transcendentalism.
READING: H.D. Thoreau: “Resistance to Civil Government” (in: 19CAR as “On Civil Disobedience”).
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: R.W. Emerson: 'Self-Reliance' (In: 19CAR: 104-108)
7. The West.
READING: Philip Freneau: “The Indian Burying Ground”, 1788, a poem, in EAR, p. 516-517
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: The Ghost Dance
8. The South and the Civil War.
READING: William Faulkner: “Rose for Emily”, 1930, a short story (In: Ant.)
TIPS FOR PROJECTS: Frederick Douglass, “Slavery from the Slave´s Point of View”, extract from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845 (slave narrative), in: The American Scene 1660-1860: 375-385.ON RESERVE WITH THE LIBRARIAN
9. The Progressive Era. The Great Depression. The New Deal.
READING: J. Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath. All will read extracts in the original and Czech translation – to be specified and posted on the intranet.
10. The nation of immigrants
READING: Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur: "What Is an American?" (essay, In: Heath; Norton Anthology of Amer. Lit.; EAR); “America´s Dilemma”, In: Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror. A History of Multicultural America, 401-428 (ON RESERVE WITH THE LIBRARIAN)
11. American modern history through the presidencies of F. D. Roosevelt, H. Truman, D. Eisenhower, J.F. Kennedy.
ReadinG: Introduction to The Kennedy tapes: inside the White House during the Cuban missile crisis (Belknap Press 1997), in the original and Czech translation (see SIS, bakalářská práce 2014, Katrin Hřibová).
TIPS FOR PROJECTS, to be PRESENTED IN THIS SESSION: Any research in any aspects of any modern presidential era.
12. Taking Woodstock, 2009, a film by Ang Lee.
|