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Lecturer(s)
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Jajtner Tomáš, Mgr. Th.D., Ph.D.
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Machová Mariana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction and practical matters Lecture America as a Dream and Fantasy of the Old World 2. This New Founde Land: Early Reports on America 3. The New England Mind I Puritan histories 4. The New England Mind II Puritan poetry 5. The New England Mind III Emerson and Hawthorne 6. The Early American Mind and the Natives I the colonial period 7. The Early American Mind and the Natives II 1780s-1850s 8. Inventing America: Early American Types I the Founders 9. Inventing America: Early American Types I what is an American? 10. Inventing America: Early American Types I Transcendentalism 11. Savages, Slaves and Americans: Early Black America I 12. Savages, Slaves and Americans: Early Black America II 13. Written test
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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 follow-up on the basic B.A. course of the History of American Literature. It focuses on American literature from the beginnings to the American Renaissance. It progresses in thematic units which open up essential issues of the canon of older American literature.
Reading, interpretation, discussion.
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Prerequisites
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The prerequisite for this seminar is the completion of a basic academic course on American literature.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance assessment, Test
Active participation and a written test (2000 words).
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Recommended literature
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume A: Beginnings to 1820. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2012.
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume B: 1820?1865. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2012.
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume C: 1865?1914. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2012.
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Bercovitch, S. The Puritan Origins of the American Self. Yale: Yale University Press, 2011.
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Bremer, F. First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World. Durham: University of New Hampshire, 2012.
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Franklin, B. Colonial Literature 1607?1776. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.
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Philips J., Ladd, A. L. Romanticism and Transcendentalism (1800?1860). New York: Infobase Publishing, 2006.
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Procházka M. (et al.). Lectures on American Literature. Prague: Karolinum, 2002.
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Tindall, G. B., Shi, D. E. America: a narrative history. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1993.
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Vietto, A. Early American Literature 1776?1820. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.
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