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AJ5_SAL2 20th Century American Literature Seminar

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2006

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Supervisor

Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature - Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-SS)

Course objectives

This survey course examines American literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to present, covering two important literary movements, modernism and postmodernism. The course is designed to introduce students to the ideas and pleasures literature offers us, and encourages students to think about the texts and discuss them in the class. Students are also asked to keep a journal of their thoughts and responses to themes and ideas expressed in the texts.

Syllabus

• 1. Modernist poetry (Ezra Pound, W. C. Williams, e. e. cummings, Wallece Stevens, T. S. Eliot) 2. Modernist fiction (Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway) 3. Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McCay, Zora Neale Hurston, blues lyrics) 4. Southern literature (William Faulkner, Flannery OConnor) 5. Drama (Edward Albee) 6. Jewish authors (I. B. Singer, Woody Allen, Art Spiegelman) 7. Postmodern literature I (Donald Barthelme, John Barth) 8. Postmodern literature II (Kathy Acker, Joyce Carol Oates) 9. Afro-American literature (Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Alice Walker) 10. Ethnic literature (Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, Sherman Alexie, Dian Million, Ofelia Zepeda) 11. Contemporary poetry (Frank OHara, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Laurie Anderson)

Literature

• The Heath anthology of American literature. Edited by Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990. xxxix, 261. ISBN 0-669-12065-0. info

Assessment methods (v češtině)

Typ výuky: seminář

Language in which the course is taught

English

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005.

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