PdF:A2BK_AM20 Modern American Literature - Course Information
A2BK_AM20 Modern American Literature
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (lecturer)
Michael George, M.A. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, 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
- A2BK_AM20/OS01: Fri 30. 9. 9:20–11:55 učebna 11, Fri 14. 10. 9:20–11:55 učebna 11, Fri 4. 11. 9:20–11:55 učebna 11, Fri 18. 11. 9:20–11:55 učebna 11, Fri 2. 12. 9:20–11:55 učebna 11, Fri 16. 12. 9:20–11:55 učebna 11, P. Buchtová, M. George
A2BK_AM20/01: Mon 19. 9. 13:55–16:30 učebna 57, Mon 3. 10. 13:55–16:30 učebna 57, Mon 17. 10. 13:55–16:30 učebna 57, Mon 31. 10. 13:55–16:30 učebna 57, Mon 14. 11. 13:55–16:30 učebna 57, Mon 28. 11. 13:55–16:30 učebna 57, P. Buchtová, M. George - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ( A2BK_PJ1B Practical Language 1B && A2BK_GR1B Grammar B && A2BK_SFFB Phonetics Seminar B ) || A2BK_SOZK Complex Exam
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (eng.) (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE) (2)
- Course objectives
- This survey course examines American literature throughout the 20th century on the background of historical, social and cultural events.
In the seminars we will explore major writers and literary movements of the period as well as recurrent themes and motifs in the assigned readings.
At the end of this course, students should be able to describe at least two different varieties of literary modernism and discuss how black and white modernist experiments may have influenced each other; appreciate the diversity of modernist authors; see connections between the art and literature of the modern era; discuss several different schools of poetry; describe postmodernism, discuss its causes and origins, and discuss ways in which the twentieth-century fiction and poetry respond to the postmodern condition. - Syllabus
- 1. Modernist poetry
- 2. Modernist fiction
- 3. Harlem Renaissance
- 4. Southern literature
- 5. Drama
- 6. Jewish authors
- 7. Poetic movements
- 8. Postmodern literature and art
- 9. Postmodern literature and feminist movement
- 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) colloquium (consisting of 3 parts: first, the student talks about the chosen topic; then s/he analyzes a short literary extract; and finally speaks about literary texts s/he has read) - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2016, recent)
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