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Lecturer(s)
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Nagy Ladislav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Machová Mariana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Beginning of the 20th century in American Literature (James, Wharton, London) Lost Generation (Heminway, Fitzgerald) Modernism (Frost, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore) Harlem Rennaissance and African-American Literature (Hughes, Hurston, Toomer) Literature of the American South (Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers) Beat Generation (Ginsberg, Kerouac) Postwar Fiction (Salinger, Mailer, Heller) Jewish American Literature (Bellow, Malamud, Roth) Native American Literature (Silko, Erdrich, Harjo, Momaday, Alexie) American Theatre of the 20th Century (O'Neill, Williams, Miller) Post-War American Poetry (Lowell, Bishop, Plath) Postmodernism (Nabokov, Pynchon, Vonnegut)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The course offers the introduction to the key works, authors and movements of American literature of the 20th century. The lecture covers the development of newer American literature, it puts the particular works and authors into a broader literary-historical and literary-theoretical context, and it suggests possible approaches to the interpretation of the texts required for reading. The aim of the course is to provide the students with an overview of the history of the 20th-century American literature, and to introduce the selected writers and their works. The final exam covers the material studied in the courses History of American Literature I and II.
The students will learn about the history of American literature in the 20th century.
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Prerequisites
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As the class is taught in English, the students are expected to have adequate language skills.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Essay, Student performance assessment
Participation in class, reading of the assigned works, an essay of 1500 words, final written test.
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Recommended literature
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Primární texty dle sylabu.
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The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2007.
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Beach, C. The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 6, Prose writing : 1910-1950. 1st pub. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-521-49731-0.
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Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 7, Prose writing : 1940-1990. 1st pub. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Bradbury, M. The Modern American Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Gray, R. A History of American Literature. 2nd edition. 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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Longenbach, J. Modern Poetry After Modernism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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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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Ward, G. The Writing of America. Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002.
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