AJ5_AL19 American Literature from Beginnings to the End of the 19th century

Faculty of Education
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This survey course examines American literature from the colonial times to the end of the nineteenth century. In the seminar we will explore the major writers and literary movements (romanticism, realism, regionalism, naturalism) as well as some of the lesser known authors and works of the period. This 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 literature (William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson) 2) Revolution and Enlightenment (Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, St. Jean de Crevecoeur) 3) Romantic period (Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe) 4) Transcendentalism (Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson) 5) Prose romance (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville) 6) African-American literature (Harriet Ann Jacobs, spirituals, folktales) 7) 19th century poetry (William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadworth Longfelllow, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson) 8) Realism I (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Cady Stanton) 9) Realism II (Henry James) 10) Regionalism (Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett) 11) Naturalism (Stephen Crane, Jack London)
Literature
  • BRADBURY, Malcolm and Richard RULAND. From puritanism to postmodernism : a history of American literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991, 456 s. ISBN 0-14-014435-8. info
  • The Heath anthology of American literature. Edited by Paul Lauter. Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1990, xliii, 293. ISBN 0-669-12064-2. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
kolokvium - chronologie am.lit. (viz sylabus) čtenářský deník příprava literární hodiny docházka podrobné informace u učitele
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
viz moodlinka, pod kódem předmětu, heslo u učitele
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006.
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