AJ3BP_AL19 Americká literatura do konce 19. století

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2006
Rozsah
1/0/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Předpoklady
Read compulsory books, study from the list of recommended literature, attend regularly, bring books to classes, keep a reader's diary.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
An introduction to American literature in English from its beginning in the 17th century to the early 20th century. The course is organized chronologically, it puts stress on artistic influences of the age of reason, romanticism, realism, and naturalism. It also introduces American oral literature of that period.
Osnova
  • Week 1 ( Sept 30 * Oct. 5): The American literature: an outline from the beginnings to the present; the role of migration, the movement of the frontier. Geography and literature. Week 2 (Oct. 7 * 12): Colonial literature; autobiographies, diaries, poetry, captivity stories; the role of the Bible. Reading: The Bible (bring your own copy!); An Indian Princess Pocahontas and John Smith (handout). Week 3 (Oct. 14 * 19): Revolution and Enlightenment; letters, essays, speeches, proclamations, dictionaries. Reading from: The Declaration of Independence (bring your own copy!); St. Jean de Crevecouer: What is an American? (handout). Week 4 (Oct. 21 * 26): Oral literature: legends, tall tales, proverbs, ballads, plantation tales, spirituals, gospels, blues, dirty dozens; the role of music. Reading: from Poor Richards Almanac by Benjamin Franklin (handout); tall tales (handout); spirituals (handout). Week 5 (Nov. 3 * 4): Romanticism: the noble savage, history, the woods. Reading from: Rip Van Winkle (handout); from the Leatherstocking series (bring your own copy!) Discuss Poe. Week 6 (Nov. 9 * 11): Romanticism and social reforms; Transcendentalism. Reading from H. B. Stowe, F. Douglass, and Emerson and Thoreau (handouts). Week 7 (Nov. 16 * 18): Romanticism; symbolist novels. Reading from Hawthorne and Melville (bring your own copies!). Week 8 (Nov. 23 * 25): The 19th century poetry. Reading from Poe, Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. (handouts available). Week 9 (Nov. 30 * Dec. 2): Realism and region; the role of low literature. Reading from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (bring your own copy!); Uncle Remus Stories (handout); The Luck of the Roaring Camp (handout). Week 10 (Dec. 7 * 9): Realism, race and gender; the coming of psychology. Reading from Daisy Miller (bring your own copy!); Little Women (handout); and Awakening (handout). Week 11 (Dec. 14 * 16): Naturalism; the role of science. Reading from The Red Badge of Courage (bring your own copy!); and John the Barleycorn (handout).
Literatura
  • BRADBURY, Malcolm. Od puritanismu k postmodernismu : dějiny americké literatury. Edited by Richard Ruland, Translated by Marcel Arbeit. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997, 492 s. ISBN 8020405860. info
  • BRADBURY, Malcolm a Richard RULAND. From puritanism to postmodernism : a history of American literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991, 456 s. ISBN 0-14-014435-8. info
  • 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
  • An Early American Reader. Washington: US Inf.Agency, 1990, 741 s. info
  • An early American reader. Edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Washington: United States Information Agency, 1988, xxiii, 741. info
  • VANSPANCKEREN, Kathryn. Nástin americké literatury. [Praha]: Informační agentura Spojených států, 137 s. info
Metody hodnocení
read compulsory literature, keep a reader's diary, bring books to classes, answer final questions
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Primary literature - compulsory: The Bible (King James 1611, RS version 1952) Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence (1776) James Fenimore Cooper: any of his Leatherstocking tales (1823 and after) Edgar Allan Poe: short stories (1832) Nathanael Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (1850) Herman Melville: Moby Dick (1850), or Typee (1846) Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Henry James: Daisy Miller (1878) Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (1894)
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