AJ2307 Historie, kultura a literatura USA

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2022
Rozsah
0/3/0. 5 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Barbora Kašpárková, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Předpoklady
AJ2102 Praktický jazyk 1B
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
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Cíle předmětu
The students are introduced to history, literature, and culture of the United States of America from Pre-Columbian era to the 20th Century. The goal is to introduce important authors, literary movements, historical events and cultural context of the given period and analyze their interrelation. Students will understand how literary texts reflect historical events and cultural myths. They will learn to identify cultural values and interpret them with the purpose to enhance respect to otherness. Students will discuss the role of context, gender, race, and ethnicity in history and in forming of literary genres and topics.
Výstupy z učení
At the end of the course, the students will be able to:
- identify and describe major trends in postwar American literature and understand their relationship to American society and culture
- familiar with major works of fiction, art, and historical events which influenced the social life of the U.S. of America
- develop your skills in analytical reading and proposal writings
- understand and frame literary works as a form of social commentary which responds to specific historical occurrences
Osnova
  • 1. Pre-Columbian America (Native Americans' myths about the creation of the world) 2. Colonial beginnings: clash of cultures and cultural misunderstandings (William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson) 3. British colonies (John Winthrop, John Smith, Cotton Mather) 4. War of Independence (Benjamin Franklin, Jean de Crevecoeur, The Declaration of Independence) 5. Slavery and the Civil War (slave narratives, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce) 6. Industrialization and Immigration (Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson) 7. American Imperialism from the Monroe Doctrine to WWI (Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane) 8. Great Depression and New Deal (Willaim Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor) 9. World War II (Hemingway, Gertrude Stein) 10. Afro-American Experience: from segregation to integration (Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansbery) 11. Cold War (Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath) 12. Multicultural America (Maxine Hong Kingston, Ishmael Reed)
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • DAVIDSON, James West. Nation of nations : a concise narrative of the American Republic. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, xxiv, 947. ISBN 0070157383. info
  • Columbia literary history of the United States. Edited by Emory Elliott - Martha Banta - Houston A. Baker. Collector's edition. New York: Columbia University, 1988, xxviii, 12. ISBN 0-231-06780-1. info
    doporučená literatura
  • Murrin, John M. et al. Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People. 5 th ed. USA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008.
  • Oxford guide to British and American culture : for learners of English. Edited by Jonathan Crowther - Kathryn Kavanagh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, viii, 599. ISBN 0194313328. info
  • Encyclopedia of southern culture. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson - William R. Ferris - Ann J. Abadie - Mary L. Ha. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina press, 1989, xxi, 1634. ISBN 0807818232. info
Výukové metody
discussion-based seminars, pair and group work, issue-based learning, project work, presentation
Metody hodnocení
Continuous assessment: participate in the discussion; complete 6 quizzes with a 70% passmark; read two novels; write one essay on assigned reading and in-class presentation. Formative assessment: test
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Výuka probíhá každý týden.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2023, podzim 2024.