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Lecturer(s)
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Machová Mariana, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Adar Einat, M.A. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Roots of American Literature: Puritans, Colony, Independence (Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Jefferson, Franklin) American Romanticism: Cooper and the Topos of the Frontier (The Last of the Mohicans) Image of the Indian in American Romantic Literature. Bryant, Cooper, Sedgewick (Hope Leslie) Transcendentalism: Emerson (Nature) and Thoreau (Walden) Edgar Allan Poe and "Black Romanticism" (stories, "The Raven", "Philosophy of Composition") Puritan Heritage: Nathaniel Hawthorne and History (The Scarlet Letter) Hawthorne's Revision of the Transcendentalist vision (stories) Herman Melville ("Bartleby, the Scrivener", Moby-Dick) Walt Whitman a zrod moderní americké poezie (Song of Myself). Emily Dickinson (poems) Realism, regionalism and local color. Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) Naturalism and the End of Century: Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) and Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie) Situation of Women in American Literature: Chopin (The Awakening), Gilman
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), 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 older American literature, the main focus being the 19th century. The seminar further develops the themes introduced in the lecture. It is based on the students own reading experience: the core of the seminar is a discussion of selected texts, the students work in smaller groups, in which they discuss assigned topics and present the results in the seminar. The aim of the seminar is to encourage the students to independent work with the texts and to develop their interpretation skills.
The seminar will enhance the students abilities of literary analysis and interpretation.
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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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Student performance assessment
Active in-class participation, work in groups, presentation of an assigned topic.
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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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Bercovitch, Sacvan,; Patell, Cyrus R. K. The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 2, 1820-1865. 1st pub. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-30106-8.
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Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 3, Prose writing : 1860-1920. 1st pub. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-30107-6.
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Bercovitch, Sacvan. The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 4, Nineteenth-century poetry : 1800-1910. 1st pub. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Crane, G. The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Gray, R. A History of American Literature. 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature (1923). Ed. by Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey and John Worthen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Matthiessen, F. O. American renaissance : art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman. London : Oxford University Press, 1968. ISBN 0-19-500759-X.
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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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Ruland, Richard; Bradbury, Malcolm. Od puritanismu k postmodernismu : dějiny americké literatury. 1. vyd. Praha : Mladá fronta, 1997. ISBN 80-204-0586-0.
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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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