A2BP_AMLI American Literature

Faculty of Education
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Timetable of Seminar Groups
A2BP_AMLI/01: Mon 7:55–9:35 učebna 58, P. Buchtová
A2BP_AMLI/02: Mon 9:45–11:25 učebna 59, P. Buchtová
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
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)
Course requirements: 1) 100% attendance (combined with reading journals) 2) Read the material assigned in the syllabus (it will be checked by in-class quizzes) 3) At least five contributions to mood-link forums 4) Occasional mood-link tasks 5) Credit test
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1041
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006.
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