Úvod do britské a americké kultury - AAA130120
|
|
||
|
OBJECTIVES
1. To acquaint students with modern views of culture, multiculturalism, ethnicity, nation, and cultural region applied to English-speaking countries, especially Britain and the U.S. 2. To promote the understanding of the diversity of 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 - 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. - Culture and Politics in the UK - Culture and Politics in the US MATERIALS Mandatory: Study materials (PowerPoint presentations of lectures) are available on Moodle to the students who have signed up for the course. Moodle link: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=1117 Recommended reading: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1991) Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings, ed. Raymond Geuss, Quentin Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent: Transformation of the Symbolic Construction of America (New York: Routledge, 1993) Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Charles Crow (ed.), A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003) Maryanne Datesman, Joann Crandall, and Edward N. Kearny. American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture, 4th edition (New York: Pearson Education, 2014). Mike Davis, Dead Cities and Other Tales (New York: The New Press 2002) Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature (1975), trans. Dana Polan (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986) Alison Donnell, Sarah Lawson Welsh (eds.), Reader in Caribbean Literature (London: Routledge, 1996) Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) Arnold Groh, Theories of Culture (London: Routledge, 2020) Stuart Hall, Paul du Gay (eds.), Questions of Cultural Identity (London: Sage, 1997) Gary J. Hausladen (ed.), Western Places, American Myths: How We Think about the West (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2003) Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition (1978) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) John Koch (ed.), Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopaedia (Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2006) Marc Landy. American Government: Enduring Principles and Critical Choices. 4th ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Joep Leerssen, Encyclopaedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (University of Amsterdam, 2018), https://ernie.uva.nl/viewer.p/21 P.J. Marshall (ed.), British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962) Eugene Moehring, Urbanism and Empire in the Far West (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2004) Francis Mulhern, Culture/Metaculture (London: Routledge, 2000) Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, Thomas J. Harvey (eds.), Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2003) John Oakland, British Civilization (London: Routledge, 1998) Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (London: Methuen, 1982) Kwesi Owusu (ed.), Black British Culture and Society (London: Routledge, 2000) Martin Procházka (ed.), After History (Praha: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006) Edward Said, Orientalism (London and New York: Routledge, 1978) Anthony D. Smith, The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2000) Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: the Body and the City in the Western Civilization (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Co., 1994) Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986) Graeme Turner, British Cultural Studies (London: Routledge,1996) Colin Woodard: American Nations. A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures (Penguin Books, 2011) ASSESSMENT Credits will be given based on a final test—multiple-choice (pass limit 60 percent; three dates: January/February, May/June, two resits). Poslední úprava: Machová Mariana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)
|