AJ2MP_SAML Seminář k americké literatuře 20. století

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2010
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (cvičící)
Garance
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Rozvrh
Po 7:00–8:40 učebna 54
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
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.
At the end of this course, students should be able to describe at least two different varieties of literary modernism and discuss how black and white modernist experiments may have influenced each other; appreciate the diversity of modernist authors; see connections between the art and literature of the modern era; discuss several different schools of poetry; describe postmodernism, discuss its causes and origins, and discuss ways in which the twentieth-century fiction and poetry respond to the postmodern condition; explain how minority writers (women, ethnic, racial and sexual minorities) have used postmodern narrative techniques to define their identities
Osnova
  • 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)
Literatura
  • The Columbia history of the American novel. Edited by Emory Elliott - Cathy N. Davidson. New York: Columbia University, 1991, xviii, 905. ISBN 0-231-07360-7. info
  • The Heath anthology of American literature. Edited by Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990, xxxix, 261. ISBN 0-669-12065-0. info
  • Columbia literary history of the United States. Edited by Emory Elliott. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, xxviii, 12. ISBN 0-231-05812-8. info
Výukové metody
discussion-based seminars
group work
Metody hodnocení
1) Response papers (1 for each seminar), focusing on one text from the assigned reading
2) final credit test (a multiple choice test which includes 25 questions covering the studied topics, each correct answer is evaluated as 4 points; the pass mark is 60 points)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2006, podzim 2007, podzim 2008, podzim 2009, podzim 2011, podzim 2012, podzim 2013, podzim 2014, podzim 2015, podzim 2016, podzim 2017, podzim 2018, podzim 2019.