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Colonial Period and the Revolution (Procházka, 8 weeks) The course traces general tendencies in the process of establishing American literature. It combines historical and literary approaches with the main focus on the Puritan tradition and the literary achievements of the Revolution, and their most important representatives. The course also provides the students with elementary information about the political and historical aspects of American culture of 17th and 18th century. SEMINAR: OBJECTIVES The course is focused on important texts in American literature from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century. While preference will be given to poems and short prose pieces all students will be expected to read at least two novels to allow the class to discuss them as a whole. MATERIAL Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Norton Anthology of American Literature ASSESSMENT Record of attendance will be kept. To receive their credits all students will be obliged to make oral presentations and to submit an essay of 2000-3000 words. Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (16.07.2007)
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Procházka, Martin a kol., Lectures on American Literature (Praha: Karolinum, 2002) The Norton Anthology of American Literature, sv. I a II. (New York: Norton, 2001) Bradbury, Malcolm a Richard, Ruland, Od puritanismu k postmodernismu (Praha: Mladá fronta, 1996) Bhabha, H., "The Other Question. Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism," in: The Location of Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1994) Boorstin, D., The Americans: the National Experience (New York: Random House, 1965) Chinard, G., Thomas Jefferson. The Apostle of Americanism (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1957) Cookson, W., A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (London: Croom Helm, 1985) Cowley, M., Exile´s Return (New York: Penguin, 1979) Davie, D., Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965) Duban, J., Melville's Major Fiction. Politics, Theology, and Imagination (Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1983) Garbo, N.S., The Coincidental Art of Charles Brockden Brown (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981) Gates, H.L., Jr. and N.Y. McKay et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1997) Goodwyn, J.B., "Resource Notes," in Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence ed. J.B. Goodwyn, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995) Hart, J.D., The Oxford Companion to American Literature (5th ed.) (New York: Oxford UP, 1983) Heaney, S., (1988) The Government of the Tongue London: Faber and Faber, Jehlen M., Bercovitch S. (eds.), Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986) Kenner H., The Pound Era (London: Faber and Faber, 1971) Lacan, J., Écrits. A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W.W.Norton & Co., 1977) Millican, E., One United People. The Federalist Papers and the National Idea (Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1990) Patterson, M.R., Authority, Autonomy and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1988) Riddell, J.N., The Inverted Bell: Modernism and the Counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams Baton Rouge: (Louisiana State University Press, 1974) Slotkin, R., "Introduction", in: J.F. Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986) Smith, H.N., "Symbol and Idea in Virgin Land," in M. Jehlen and S. Bercovitch (eds.), Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1987) Sollors, W., Beyond Ethnicity (New York: Oxford UP, 1986) Traversi, D., T.S. Eliot: Longer Poems (London: Bodley Head, 1976) von Hallberg, R., Cambridge History of American Literature vol. 8. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) Warner, M., The Letters of the Republic. Publication in 18th Century America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990) Wills, G., Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1978) Wilson, E, The Shores of Light New York: (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1952) seminář: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2 (Fifth edition, New York: Norton, 2001). Martin Procházka a kol., Lectures on American Literature (Praha: Karolinum, 2002) Bradbury, Malcolm a Ruland Richard, Od puritanismu k postmodernismu (Praha: Mladá fronta, 1996) Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
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přednáška + seminář Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
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I Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), /The Scarlet Letter/ II Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), /Nature/, "The American Scholar", "The Over-Soul" III Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), "Sonnet-To Science", "To Helen", "Annabel Lee", "Ligeia", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Man of the Crowd", "The Philosophy of Composition" IV Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), /Walden/ V Walt Whitman (1819-1892), "Song of Myself" VI Herman Melville (1819-1891), /Moby-Dick/ VII Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), /Norton/ selection (5th edition) Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)
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