American Literature 1900-1950 - JMM348

• Title: American Literature 1900-1950
• Czech title: American Literature 1900-1950
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2016 to 2016
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 20 / 20 (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• 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. Jiří Hanuš
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Jiří Hanuš
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Is pre-requisite for: JMM620

Annotation

Last update: CALDA (27.10.2004)

This course, conducted in English, will introduce the students to the period of American writing that saw an arrival of new form and new content in the 1920s and a new focus on the socially indigenous in the 1930s. Basic orientation in the various streams of postwar writing, from the confessional mainstream novel through the Beats to experimental prose and postmodern writing. The diversity of styles in this period corresponds to the increasingly complex picture of the American society and reflects its complexity.

Literature

Last update: CALDA (27.10.2004)

The Columbia History of the American Novel

Richard Ruland, Malcolm Bradbury: From Puritanism to Postmodernism

Oxford Companion to American Literature

Frederick Karl: American Fictions

Syllabus

Last update: CALDA (27.10.2004)

Introduction

Ernest Hemingway

Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos

William Faulkner

Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Harlem Renaissance

John Steinbeck

Erskine Caldwell and Nathaniel West

E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams

Eugene O\'Neil

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Introduction

Saul Bellow

Philip Roth

Vladimir Nabokov

Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlingetti

Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Richard Brautigan

John Updike

William Styron

Joyce Carol Oates, Tony Morrison, Ann Tyler

Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut

John Irving

Tom Robbins