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Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
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Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
1. Lecture: Colonial US literature (online video – home assignment) Intro / Lecture 2: Enlightenment and revolutionary period Reading assignment – Benjamin Franklin: 2 pamphlets
2. Lecture: Romantism Reading assignment – Washington Irving: The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow Reading assignment – E.A.Poe: The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart Reading assignment – N. Hawthorne: Birthmark, Rapaccini’s Daughter (optional)
3. Video Lecture: ideological overtones of Romanticism – slave narratives Reading assignment – The Narrative of Frederick Douglass Reading assignment 2 (optional) – H. D. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
4. Lecture: Realism/Naturalism I (local color) Reading assignment –Kate Chopin: A Respectable Woman and 4 other stories Reading assignment –A. Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge S. Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (synopsis + excerpt)
5. Lecture: 18th through 20th century poetry (+online video) Reading assignment – Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Hughes, Pound
6. Lecture: Modernism I Reading assignment: William Faulkner, Barn Burning; A Rose for Emily Reading assignment: Ernest Hemingway, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Hills Like White Elephants
7. Lecture: Modernism II (Jazz Age) Reading assignment: F.S. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
8. Lecture: American drama I Reading assignment: TennesseeWilliams, Streetcar Named Desire
9. Lecture: American drama II (Theatre of the Absurd) Reading assignment: Edward Albee, The Zoo Story
10. Lecture: Jewish-American authors Reading assignment: Phillip Roth, Defender of the Faith Reading assignment: Bernard Malamud, Armistice
11. Lecture: African American literature Reading assignment: Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
12. Overview and synthesis
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Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
CREDIT REQUIREMENTS: 90% attendance, one seminar paper based on one of the assigned topics (approx. 1000 words). Oral exam (see Moodle) Essay deadline: 3 days prior to the oral exam |