AJ15073 American Poetry from 1945 to the Present

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jiří Flajšar, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jiří Flajšar (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 15:50–17:25 G22
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
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Course objectives
The one-semester seminar provides a historical survey of the main currents in American poetry in English from 1945 to the present. The focus is in particular on introductions to individual topics and periods. The main emphasis in the course is on guided discussion and analysis of the representative samples of poetry by invididual authors.
Syllabus
  • -American poetry in 1945: tradition and innovation -academic poetry and formalism -projectivism and Black Mountain School -Beat Generation poetry and San Francisco Renaissance -confessional poetry, Deep Image poetry, New York School -feminist poetry, poetry of radical protest -LANGUAGE poetry, New Formalism -Afro-American poetry -Asian-American poetry -Native American poetry -Hispanic American poetry -poetry of witness, poetry of the margins
Literature
  • Flajšar, Jiří. Dějiny americké poezie. Ústí nad Orlicí: Oftis, 2006.
  • Weinberger, Eliot, ed. American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders. New York: Marsilio, 1993.
  • Rosenthal, M. L. The New Poets: American and British Poetry Since World War II. London: Oxford UP, 1967.
  • Moramarco, Fred, and William Sullivan. Containing Multitudes: Poetry in the United States Since 1950. New York: Twayne, 1998.
  • Gray, Richard. History of American Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stalworthy, eds. Tne Norton Anthology of Poetry. 5th. ed. New York: Norton, 2005.
  • Weingarten, Roger, and Richard Higgerson, eds. Poets of the New Century. Boston: Godine, 2001.
Teaching methods
-assigned readings -attendance (max. 2 absences) and active participation in classroom discussion -a 10-minute presentation (analysis of a poem selected from the syllabus) -an essay (minimum 3 pages) which may be 1/ based upon your presentation or 2/ on a new topic comparing two poems by two different poets or 3/ analyzing one other poem in depth.
Assessment methods
-assigned readings -attendance (max. 2 absences) and active participation in classroom discussion -a 10-minute presentation (analysis of a poem selected from the syllabus) -an essay (minimum 3 pages) which may be 1/ based upon your presentation or 2/ on a new topic comparing two poems by two different poets or 3/ analyzing one other poem in depth.
Language of instruction
English
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