AJ2MP_SAML Seminář k americké literatuře 20. století

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2018
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course examines American literature of the second half of the 20th century. 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 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; appreciate the diversity of views expressed in contemporary American literature
Výstupy z učení
At the end of this course, students should be able to 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; appreciate the diversity of views expressed in contemporary American literature
Osnova
  • 1. Postmodernism and theories of poststructuralism
  • introduction to the course and a lecture
  • 2. Postmodern Identity
  • Developing an argument
  • reading: Donald Barthelme, Paul Auster, Umberto Eco
  • 3. Revisiting History
  • reading: Art Spiegelman, Sherman Alexie, Toni Morrison
  • 4. Identity and Race
  • reading: June Jordan, Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, Lucille Clifton
  • 5. Identity and Gender
  • Working with secondary sources
  • reading: Adrienne Rich, Ursula LeGuin, Margaret Atwood, Olga Broumas
  • 6. Identity and Ethnicity I
  • reading: Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan
  • 7. Identity and Ethnicity II
  • reading: Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie
  • 8. Queer Identity
  • reading: Leslie Feinberg, Olga Broumas
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 70 points)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Výuka probíhá každý týden.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2006, podzim 2007, podzim 2008, podzim 2009, podzim 2010, podzim 2011, podzim 2012, podzim 2013, podzim 2014, podzim 2015, podzim 2016, podzim 2017, podzim 2019.