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Canadian Literature - ON2301015
Title: Kanadská literatura
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2009
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not 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
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Josef Grmela, CSc.
Annotation -
Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.04.2009)
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the multicultural literature of both historical and contemporary Canada. The seminars will focus on an analysis of selected representative writers of fiction and poetry, with an emphasis on the idiosyncrasies of Canadian cultural expression.
Literature - Czech
Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (30.04.2009)

Atwood, M. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: Anansi, 1972.

Frye, N. The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: Anansi, 1971.

Grmela, J. "Literatury Kanady v průsečíku mezinárodních vztahů", in: Osobitné medziliterárne spoločenstvá 4, ed.. Dionýz Ďurišin, s. 234-253, Bratislava: Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV, 1992.

Hutcheon, L. The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction, Toronto: Oxford U.P., 1988.

New, W.H. History of Canadian Literature. Montreal: McGill-Queens U.P., 2003.

Oates-Indruchová, L. "Initiation Motives in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride", in: Pavel Drábek, Jan Chovanec, eds., Theory and Practice in English Studies, vol. 2: Proceedings from the Seventh Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies, s. 127-133, 2004, Brno: Masarykova Univerzita Brno.

Wylie, H. Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History. Montreal: McGill-Queens U.P., 2002.

 
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