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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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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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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 American literature of the 20th 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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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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