AJPV_ALMS American Literature: In Different Voices

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJPV_ALMS/01: Thu 13:00–14:40 učebna 55, P. Buchtová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course examines American literature as an amalgam of different voices that are rarely in harmony. American literature has never been a homogeneous movement, there were always conflicting, sometimes even irreconcilable voices that used to be ignored and silenced by the official literary canon. Since 1960s, however, literary scholars started to study those silenced voices and opened the canon to plurality of voices. The readings in this course will help you to comprehend the multi-faceted nature of American literature. The course encourages students to think about the texts and discuss them in the class. The discussions will focus on the cultural and historical contexts from which the texts arise.
Syllabus
  • 1. Colonial beginnings
  • William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson
  • 2. Did it really begin with Puritans?
  • trickster tales, Louise Erdrich
  • 3. Masculine Heroes
  • Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
  • 4. Women write back
  • Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • 5. Experimental voices
  • T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, W. Stevens
  • 6. Vernacular voices
  • W. C. Williams, Langston Hughes
  • 7. Modernity and the North
  • F. S. Fitzgerald
  • 8. Tradition and the South
  • William Faulkner, Flannery O´Connor
Literature
  • The Columbia history of the American novel. Edited by Emory Elliott - Cathy N. Davidson. New York: Columbia University, 1991, xviii, 905. ISBN 0-231-07360-7. info
  • The Heath anthology of American literature. Edited by Paul Lauter. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990, xxxix, 261. ISBN 0-669-12065-0. info
  • Columbia literary history of the United States. Edited by Emory Elliott. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, xxviii, 12. ISBN 0-231-05812-8. info
Teaching methods
discussion-based seminars
group work
Assessment methods
1) Response papers (1 for each seminar), focusing on one text from the assigned reading
2) final written test (the pass mark is 70 points)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: literární seminář.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 2 hodiny.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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