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Lecturer(s)
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Machová Mariana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Kovářová Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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America as a Utopia and Anti-Utopia Myth of the American West and its Modern Revisions Multiculturalism and Minorities American Indian as a Topic and as a Creator Experiment in American Fiction Role of Nature and Landscape Topos of the Town and of the City "Americanness" vs. universality of American literature Women and Feminism in American Literature Regions, Local Color Tradition and Experiment in American Poetry Theme of Innocence in American Literature American Tradition of the "On the Road" Novel
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The course is a loose follow-up to the BA programme course History of American Literature II, further developing its topics. It deals with some of the key themes of newer American literature in relationship to American literary tradition. The students are encouraged to adopt not only a simple diachronic view of literary history, but also to look for more complex relationships between works and periods, and to perceive literature in a broader cultural context.
The students will acquire deeper insight into the crucial themes of modern American literature and into the role of these themes in the broader context of American culture.
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Prerequisites
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The students are expected to have a basic knowledge of the history of American literature and the major authors and works (on the level of a BA graduate), and the ability to read the texts required in the English original.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Student performance assessment
Class attendance (70%) and active participation in the discussions, a written essay of 1500 words.
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Recommended literature
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Primární texty dle sylabu.
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Bercovitch, S. (ed.). The Cambridge History of American Literature (Volumes 2?4). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Bewley, M. The Eccentric Design. Form in the Classic American Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.
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Bradbury, M. The Modern American Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Fussel, E. Frontier: American Literature and the American West. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.
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Gray, R. A History of American Literature. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Hendin, J. (ed.). A Concise Companion to Postwar American Culture and Literature. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
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Kalaidijan, W. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Nelson, C. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Poirier, R. A World Elsewhere. The Place of Style in American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
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Quinn, J. (ed.). Lectures on American Literature. Praha: Karolinum, 2011.
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Ruland, R., Bradbury, M. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. A History of American Literature. London: Penguin Books, 1991.
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Tanner, T. Reign of Wonder. Naivety and Reality in American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
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Ward, G. The Writing of America. Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002.
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