A2BP_AM19 American Literature till the 19th century

Faculty of Education
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Prerequisites
A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BK_SOZK Complex Exam || AJ2BP_SOZK Qualifying Exam
The students are expected to have acquired the basic skills in literary theory and practice as well as the Maturita exam level of knowledge of American history, geography and culture.
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
Course objectives
The seminar is a survey course in American literature from the beginnings till the end of the 19th century. It introduces key texts and authors through both reading and discussion.
Syllabus
  • 1.Introduction: outline of the course and the work required. American values. 2.Early Settlers and Colonial Period.Puritan and Native American voices:comparison. Reading: Captain John Smith and Mary Rowlandson. 3. Literature of the Revolution and the Age of Reason. Reading: Benjamin Franklin, Hecotr St. John de Crévecoeur Thomas Paine. 4. Emerging of the National Literature. Reading:Washington Irving, James F. Cooper 5. Transcendentalism. Man and nature.Reading: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau 6. Romanticism. Reading: Nathaniel Hawthorne and E.A. Poe. Puritan values and the „ghostly sense“. 7. Herman Melville: Moby Dick (screening) 8. Modern Poetry: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson 9. Realism. Reading: Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher-Stowe: issues of slavery 10.Cosmopolitan Writers. Henry James and Edith Wharton. Women in society Kate Chopin. 11. Naturalism. Reading: Theodore Dreiser. In the rattle of the city. 12. Black American Literature.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
attendance and classwork mood-link-a work test interview
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1021
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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