AJ25035 US Fiction of the 1950s: Consensus Culture and the Cold War

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Professor Arthur Redding, PhD. (lecturer), Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
As many historians have documented, the Cold War dramatically re-shaped political, civic, educational, economic, media, and family life in the US and around the globe. This course will investigate the effects of the Cold War on American literature and other cultural practices. By examining overt and implicit literary responses to Stalinism, McCarthyism, the atomic bomb, suburbia, the Civil Rights movement, and other social and political developments, we will consider how writers, critics, film-makers, and other public intellectuals responded to geo-political and domestic dramas, and attempted to rethink and re-articulate the place and purpose of cultural work in the 1950s and beyond. Special emphasis will be placed upon emerging conceptions of race and sexuality, and their relevance to "national" culture and politics.
Syllabus
  • Day 1: Introduction; Day 2: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man; Day 3: Arthur Miller, The Crucible; Day 4: Syliva Plath, The Bell Jar; Day 5: Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Students will receive "zápočet" for this course only if they attend all the scheduled sessions.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: Intensive Course: September 10-15, 2007.
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