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Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
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Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (08.02.2021)
All the course materials are available online from: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2325 enrolment key: frank Online webinars are taught via Zoom at: |
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Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
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Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
1. Lecture: ColonialUSliterature (online video) Úvod do předmětu / Lecture: American Enlightenment Reading assignment – Benjamin Franklin: 2 pamphlets
2. Lecture: Enlightenment – Revolutionary writers I Readingassignment – Thomas Paine: Common Sense (slightly abridged)
3. Lecture: Romanticism I Reading assignment – Washington Irving: The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow
4. Lecture: Romanticism II Reading assignment – E.A.Poe: The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart
5. Lecture: Romanticism III Reading assignment – N. Hawthorne: Birthmark, Rapaccini’s Daughter (optional)
6. Video-lecture: Ideological overtones of Romanticism I – slave narratives Lecture: Ideological overtones of Romanticism II – slave narratives Reading assignment – The Narrative of Frederick Douglass Reading assignment 2 (optional) –H. D. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
7. Lecture: 19th centuryUSpoetry (+online video) Reading assignment – Whitman,Dickinson
8. Lecture: A transition stage between US Romanticism and Realism Readingassignment – Herman Melville: Moby Dick (excerpts), Bartleby the Scrivener
9. Lecture: Realism/Naturalism I (local color) Reading assignment –Kate Chopin: A Respectable Woman and 4 other stories
10. Lecture: Realism/Naturalism II (Civil War) Reading assignment –A. Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge S. Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (synopsis + an excerpt)
11. Lecture: Realism/Naturalism III (female emancipation issues) Reading assignment –C.P. Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
12. Lecture: Realism/Naturalism IV (muckrakers) Reading assignment – Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie (an excerpt), Typhoon |
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Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
Requirements: 80% attendance (2 unexplained absences are permissible); |
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Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
To access the reading assignments for seminars, pls. go to: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2325
enrolment key: frank
To access the backup course materials for lectures, pls. go to: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=2324
enrolment key: frank
If you are asked to sign in with your login and password, use the same login and password you use to enroll in SIS |