American Literature 2 - AAA200211
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2. Early Republic through World War I (Procházka, Quinn, 16 weeks) The course focuses on some important features of American literature during the period of the search for national identity (the Revolution through the beginning of Civil War), especially on American Romanticism and Transcendentalism. The following period of the search for American democracy (the Civil War through World War I) includes the growth of Realism, Naturalism and Modernism. These developments are discussed in the context of the emergence and re-emergence of literary centers in the South, Mid- and Far West, of regionalism (local color) and of the beginnings of African American literature. SEMINAR: OBJECTIVES The course is focused on important texts in American literature from 1865 to 1914. While preference will be given to poems and short prose pieces all students will be expected to read at least two novels to allow the class to discuss them as a whole. MATERIAL The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2 + supplementary texts ASSESSMENT Record of attendance will be kept. To receive their credits all students will be obliged to make oral presentations. Graded essays of 2,000-3,000 words (písemná práce) will be evaluated separately. Last update: UAAZNOJE (04.03.2004)
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Procházka, Martin a kol., Lectures on American Literature (Praha: Karolinum, 2002) The Norton Anthology of American Literature, sv. I a II. (New York: Norton, 2001) Bradbury, Malcolm a Richard, Ruland, Od puritanismu k postmodernismu (Praha: Mladá fronta, 1996) Bhabha, H., "The Other Question. Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism," in: The Location of Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1994) Boorstin, D., The Americans: the National Experience (New York: Random House, 1965) Chinard, G., Thomas Jefferson. The Apostle of Americanism (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1957) Cookson, W., A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound (London: Croom Helm, 1985) Cowley, M., Exile´s Return (New York: Penguin, 1979) Davie, D., Ezra Pound: Poet as Sculptor (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965) Duban, J., Melville's Major Fiction. Politics, Theology, and Imagination (Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1983) Garbo, N.S., The Coincidental Art of Charles Brockden Brown (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981) Gates, H.L., Jr. and N.Y. McKay et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., Inc., 1997) Goodwyn, J.B., "Resource Notes," in Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence ed. J.B. Goodwyn, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995) Hart, J.D., The Oxford Companion to American Literature (5th ed.) (New York: Oxford UP, 1983) Heaney, S., (1988) The Government of the Tongue London: Faber and Faber, Jehlen M., Bercovitch S. (eds.), Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986) Kenner H., The Pound Era (London: Faber and Faber, 1971) Lacan, J., Écrits. A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W.W.Norton & Co., 1977) Millican, E., One United People. The Federalist Papers and the National Idea (Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1990) Patterson, M.R., Authority, Autonomy and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1988) Riddell, J.N., The Inverted Bell: Modernism and the Counterpoetics of William Carlos Williams Baton Rouge: (Louisiana State University Press, 1974) Slotkin, R., "Introduction", in: J.F. Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986) Smith, H.N., "Symbol and Idea in Virgin Land," in M. Jehlen and S. Bercovitch (eds.), Ideology and Classic American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP 1987) Sollors, W., Beyond Ethnicity (New York: Oxford UP, 1986) Traversi, D., T.S. Eliot: Longer Poems (London: Bodley Head, 1976) von Hallberg, R., Cambridge History of American Literature vol. 8. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) Warner, M., The Letters of the Republic. Publication in 18th Century America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990) Wills, G., Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1978) Wilson, E, The Shores of Light New York: (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1952) seminář: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2 (Fifth edition, New York: Norton, 2001). Martin Procházka a kol., Lectures on American Literature (Praha: Karolinum, 2002) Bradbury, Malcolm a Ruland Richard, Od puritanismu k postmodernismu (Praha: Mladá fronta, 1996) Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
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přednáška + seminář Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
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1 Introduction 2 Henry James, pp. 281-84, "The Beast in the Jungle" pp. 341-69 and "The Art of Fiction" pp. 370-84. 3 Kate Chopin, pp. 455-56, The Awakening pp. 467-558 or a single volume copy. 4 Zitkala-Sá (Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin) "An Indian Teacher Among Indians" pp. 846-74; Roland Barthes, "The Death of the Author". 5 Gertrude Stein, extract from The Making of Americans pp. 1091-1104; T.S. Eliot, poems pp. 1368-1400. 6 T.S. Eliot poems continued, Marianne Moore, poems pp. 1275-86. 7 F. Scott Fitzgerald, pp. 1495-96 in the Norton Anthology; The Great Gatsby, copies in the library. 8 The Great Gatsby. 9 Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" pp. 1685-1703. An in-class essay will be assigned. 10 Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night pp. 1287-1367 or a single volume copy. 11 William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying pp. 1532-1629 or a single volume copy. 12 As I Lay Dying. A reading test will be given. Conclusions. Last update: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)
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