FF:AJ25051 Shakespeare a amer. literatura - Informace o předmětu
AJ25051 Shakespeare a americká literatura
Filozofická fakultapodzim 2013
- Rozsah
- 0/2/0. 2 kr. (plus 3 za zk). Doporučované ukončení: zk. Jiná možná ukončení: z.
- Vyučující
- doc. Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (přednášející)
- Garance
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta - Rozvrh
- Út 10:50–12:25 G22
- Omezení zápisu do předmětu
- Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 18 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/18, pouze zareg.: 0/18, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/18 - Mateřské obory/plány
- předmět má 11 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
- Cíle předmětu
- Students who successfully complete the course will be better able to analyze works of the imagination and will increase their ability to understand and explain Shakespeare, American literature and culture, and artistic influences and how they operate.
- Osnova
- This course will examine the “cultural reception” of Shakespeare in America, as well as some of Shakespeare’s best-known plays, alongside significant American literary works (and some “popular” works) that are “Shakespearean” in character or that reflect Shakespeare’s influence.
- UNIT 1: Introduction; Shakespeare in America; approaches to reading Shakespeare
- 1 Oct: Tsuneyama, “The Americanization of Shakespeare”; Twain, excerpts from Huckleberry Finn and “Is Shakespeare Dead?”; Sturgess, “The American Scholar and the Authorship Controversy”; “A guide to The Tempest online”; *Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I
- UNIT 2: America as Shakespeare’s enchanted (?) island
- 8 Oct.: Krueger, “Shakespeare and The Tempest” (chapter 1, pages 38-43, of Shakespeare Explained: The Tempest); Rowse, The Tempest introduction; *Shakespeare, The Tempest (all); The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations (for reference as needed)
- 15 Oct.: *Barnes, The Forest Princess
- UNIT 3: King Lear and American tragedy
- 22 Oct.: Rowse, King Lear introduction; *Shakespeare, King Lear
- 29 Oct.: Reading week; no class meeting
- 5 Nov.: View: *Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962 film); View: *A Thousand Acres (1997 film); Read: *Smiley, A Thousand Acres (posted excerpts)
- UNIT 4: In search of an American Shakespeare
- 12 Nov.: “A guide to Moby-Dick online”; Shmoop, “Moby-Dick in a Nutshell”; *Melville, Moby-Dick, chapters 1 – 45
- 19 Nov.: *Melville, Moby-Dick (all)
- UNIT 5: Popular visions and revisions
- 26 Nov.: Levine, excerpt from Highbrow/Lowbrow; Gay, “Inventing a Yiddish Theater in America”; *The Yiddish King Lear (see details posted); *Forbidden Planet (1956 film)
- UNIT 6: 3 and 10 Dec.: Student reports; review and conclusion
- Literatura
- povinná literatura
- SHAKESPEARE, William. The tempest. Edited by Virginia Mason Vaughan - Alden T. Vaughan. Reprinted. London: Thomson Learning, 2001, xx, 366. ISBN 1903436087. info
- SHAKESPEARE, William. King Lear. Edited by R. A. Foakes. [S.l.]: Thomas Nelson, 1997, xvii, 437. ISBN 017443460X. info
- O'NEILL, Eugene Gladstone. Long day's journey into night (Obsaž.) : Three american plays. info
- MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick or The White Whale. New York: Signet Classic, 543 s. info
- LEVINE, Lawrence W. a William E. MASSEY. Highbrow/lowbrow : the emergency of cultural hierarchy in America : the William E. Massey Sr. lectures in the history of civilization, 1986. 1st Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988, xii, 306 s. ISBN 0-674-39076-8. info
- Books: Bristol, Shakespeare's America / America’s Shakespeare; Sturgess, Shakespeare & American Nation; Folger Library, Shakespeare in American Life; Barnes, The Forest Princess (play); Films: Thousand Acres, Yiddish King Lear, Forbidden Planet
- doporučená literatura
- SMILEY, Jane. A thousand acres. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992, 371 s. ISBN 0-449-90748-1. info
- Výukové metody
- Lectures, readings, film viewings, class discussion
- Metody hodnocení
- In-class reports and final paper (due by e-mail during the exam period), 80% Attendance and participation, 20%
- Vyučovací jazyk
- Angličtina
- Další komentáře
- Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
- Statistika zápisu (podzim 2013, nejnovější)
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