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Last update: ZENISEK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (04.10.2015)
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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. (21.12.2018)
1. Lecture: Colonial American Literature (online video lecture) Introductory class 2. Lecture: Enlightenment Reading assignment – Benjamin Franklin: 2 pamphlets 3. Lecture: Romantism I Reading assignment – Washington Irving: The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow 4. Lecture: Romantism II E.A.Poe: The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart 5. Lecture: Romantism III Reading assignment – N. Hawthorne: Birthmark 6. Lecture: Romantism IV – slave narratives Reading assignment – The Narrative of Frederick Douglass 7. Lecture: 19th century poetry (online video) Reading assignment – Whitman, Dickinson 8. Lecture: American Transcendentalism Četba – H.D. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience 9. Lecture: Transition between Romanticism and Realism Četba – H. Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener 10. Lecture: Realism/Naturalism I Reading assignment –A. Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge S. Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (excerpt) 11. Lecture: Realism/Naturalism II – Local Color Reading assignment –Kate Chopin: A Respectable Woman and 4 other stories Optional reading assignment – C.P.Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper 12. Realismus/Naturalismus III – muckraking Theodore Dreiser: Typhoon |
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Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (21.12.2018)
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Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)
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