Analysis of Literary Texts II (American Literature) - ATA30017

• Title: Analýza literárního textu II (EN)
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Translation Studies (21-UTRL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:practical
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 24 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Eva Kalivodová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Zuzana Šťastná, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.4 Translation, Interpretation
• Interchangeability : ATA200009

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Zuzana Šťastná, Ph.D. (09.02.2024)

In line with its title, the course focuses on close reading of selected works of American literature (or excerpts from such works) but also aims to provide sufficient context that would enable the students to situate the texts studied within a broader framework of development. In the first two-thirds, the course will progress chronologically, introducing important representatives of particular literary currents, mostly through poems, short stories or excerpts from longer works that will be made available on Moodle. The last third of the course will focus on a comparative and contrastive analysis of three pairs of novels (plus a novel and a play) that share certain elements such as a common theme, and in some cases also a type of protagonist, but originated in different periods or differ in other important aspects like e.g. composition or narrative strategies. The students were informed of the requirement to read these longer works in advance (with questions and themes for discussion or supplementary materials provided on Moodle) and will be expected to be familiar with these texts by mid-April (16th) when the last four weeks of the course begin.

The credits for the course will be awarded on the basis of active participation (and minimum 75 % attendance), a written exam consisting of 6-7 open-ended questions and a subsequent discussion over each student's exam paper that may draw further on course readings.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Zuzana Šťastná, Ph.D. (08.02.2024)

• Principal sources:

  QUINN, J., ed. Lectures on American Literature. 3rd edition. Karolinum 2011.

  BRADBURY, M., RULAND, R. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. Penguin Books, 1992 (dostupné i v české verzi, Od puritanismu k postmodernismu. Mladá fronta, 1997)

  Other sources:

  BRADBURY, M. The Modern American Novel. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.

  BLOOM, H. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Riverhead Books, 1995.

  CULLER, J. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

  CUNLIFFE, M. The Literature of the United States. Reprint. Penguin Books: London, 1991.

  ECO, U. The Limits of Interpretation. Indiana University Press, 1994.

  ELLIOT, E. (ed.). The Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia Univ. Press, 1991.

  ELLIOT, E. (ed.). The Columbia Literary History of the United States. Columbia Univ. Press, 1988.

  GILBERT, S., GUBAR, S. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. The Tradition in English. New York, Norton and Co., 1985.

  HART, J. D. The Oxford Companion to American Literature. New York, Oxford University Press, 1995.

  KALIVODOVÁ, E. Dlouhá cesta k modernismu v USA. In HOUSKOVÁ, A. – SVATOŇ, V. (eds.). Pokusy o renesanci Západu. Praha: UK FF, 2016. S. 213-242

  KALIVODOVÁ, E. American Modernism in Broader Perspective. In VOLDŘICHOVÁ BERÁNKOVÁ, E. – GRAUOVÁ, Š. (eds.). Dusk and Dawn: Literature Between Two Centuries. Praha: UK FF, 2017. S. 60-86.

  KHLERT, F. B., The Chicago literary experience : writing the city, 1893-1953. [accessible as electronic source] Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011. 

  MARCUS G., SOLLORS, W. (eds.) A New Literary History of America. Harvard: Harvard Univ. Press, 2009.

  Montgomery, M., Durant, A., FABB, N., FURNISS, T., MILLS, S. Ways of Reading. Routledge, 2nd ed. 2001.

  NORTON and HEATH ANTHOLOGIES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

  SCOTT, B. K., ed., Gender in modernism : new geographies, complex intersections. Unv. of Illinois Press, 2007.

  Wellek, R., Warren, A.Theory of Literature. Penguin Books, 1984.

  WOOD, James. The Broken Estate. Essays on Literature and Belief. Picador, 2010.

  WOOD, James. The Irresponsible Self. On Laughter and the Novel. Jonathan Cape, 2004.

   

   

 

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Zuzana Šťastná, Ph.D. (08.02.2024)

 

The syllabus will be made available on Moodle.