Selected Chapters from English and American Literature II - ON2301V201

• Title: Vybrané kapitoly z anglické a americké literatury II
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/1, 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: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.
• Class: Volitelné předměty pro PS
• Classification: Teaching > English
• Attributes: Volitelné předměty PS

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (21.02.2017)

The aim of this course is to consolidate and deepen the students’ existing knowledge of British and American literature through complex and cross-section themes and exploring this knowledge in wider historical, social and cultural contexts. The course is conceived as class discussions and students’ presentations based on preceding independent preparation and reading. The main objective of the course is to enable students to relate the selected texts to their wider social, historical and cultural backgrounds.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (21.02.2017)

V. Texts for reading:

 

Selected poems: handout

Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Eugene O’Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra

 

 

VI. Recommended secondary sources:

 

Bradbury, M., From Puritanism to Postmodernism (New York: Viking Penguin 2001)

Gray, Richard, A History of American Literature (Oxford: Blackwell 2006).

High, Peter B., An Outline of American Literature (London: Longman 2007)

Procházka, M. Lectures on American Literature (Praha: UK, Karolinum 2007 (2011))

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (21.02.2017)

Preparation for and participation in weekly seminars, regular attendance – max. 2 absences

A mock state exam essay (the result does not influence the overall mark, the student might fail without any consequences).

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (21.02.2017)

Students will choose from the following topics. The content of the course will be based on their selection of six possible fields, which will be covered in the classroom. The rest will be done via elearning.

• The Puritan and Enlightenment ethos in the context of 17th and 18th century American literature
• English and American Romanticism: common features and differences. The Romanticist and Naturalist perception of an individual in society.
• The social underpinnings of American Realism and Naturalism.
• The changing reflections of war in American literature
• Major tendencies in the 19th century American poetry, reading assignment: handout
• Major tendencies in the 20th century American poetry, reading assignment: handout
• Modernism in British and American literature.
• Major developments in American drama, reading assignment: Mourning Becomes Electra, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The distinctive developments in British and American literature from the 1940s to 1960s.
• Postmodernism in British and American literature: parallels and differences.
• Specific features of hyphenated American literatures