PdF:A2MP_SAML American literature - Course Information
A2MP_SAML Contemporary American literature
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- A2MP_SAML/01: Thu 14:50–16:30 učebna 55, I. Přibylová
- Prerequisites
- Courses in American history and culture, and in older American literature.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School and Language School Teacher Training in English Language (eng.) (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- Lower Secondary School and Language School Teacher Training in English Language (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- Course objectives
- The course focuses on contemporary American literature, especially fiction, and ideas and issues which it reflects. The authors included were born after 1940.
Based on guided reading experience and class discussions, students are encouraged to read and critically comment on topics like identity, history, relations, regions, and visions, and their relevance in the post-modern world. - Syllabus
- Topic 1: Introduction to the course, resources, requirements, American literature from the 1940s to the present.
- Topic 2: Approaching postmodernism and post-postmodernism (literature, culture, lifestyle).
- Topic 3: Focus on Literature and postmodernism.
- Identity (and hybridity).
- Topic 4: History (and race and identity).
- Topic 5: Relations (and power, violence and gender).
- Topic 6: Focus on Postmodernism and culture and lifestyle.
- Regions (and place and environment).
- Topics 7 - 9: Presentations.
- Literature
- required literature
- VANSPANCKEREN, Kathryn. Nástin americké literatury. [Praha]: Informační agentura Spojených států, 137 s. info
- recommended literature
- The Routledge companion to postmodernism. Edited by Stuart Sim. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2011, xiv, 328. ISBN 9780415583329. info
- A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture. Edited by Josephine G. Hendin. Malden: Blackwell, 2004, xii, 430. ISBN 1405121807. info
- NICOL, Bran. The Cambridge introduction to postmodern fiction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, xvii, 220. ISBN 9780521679572. info
- Teaching methods
- Minilectures, reading and analysing selected primary and secondary texts, group work, class discussion.
- Assessment methods
- Independent research of a school library in English at your teaching practice school.
1 presentation based on required reading.
Regular attendance and aktivity (reading and responding). - Language of instruction
- English
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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