UCJCA124 American literature 2

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Bohuslav Mánek, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. PhDr. Bohuslav Mánek, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Bohuslav Mánek, CSc.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives (in Czech)
Stručná anotace předmětu: Přednáška a seminář navazují na Americkou literaturu 1 ve stejném duchu a soustřeďují se na období americké literatury od 2. světové války po současnost. Vzhledem k tomu, že tento předmět se snaží dát zejména přehled o různorodosti americké literatury 20. století, velká část je věnována i literaturám kultur mimo "hlavní proud" bělošské literatury. Zde se pak historický pohled vrací i za vymezené období. Sylabus přednášky: 1. War novel 2. Southern literature (Faulkner, Mc Cullers, Welthy, Styron) 3. Post-war poetry - New Criticism, projectivism, beat generation, confessional poetry, surrealism 4. Post-war prose - realism, minimalism, postmodernism 5. The New journalism, satire and lit. of absurdity 6. Theatre - Miller, Williams 7. Theatre of the absurd - Albee 8. Afro-American literature (Du Bois, Douglas, Wright, Dunbar, Harlem Renaissance) 9. Post-war Afro-American literature 10. Jewish American literature (Singer, Bellow, Malamud, Roth) 11. Asian-American literature 12. Indian literature Sylabus semináře: 1. J. Heller: Catch 22, K. Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five 2. C. Mc Cullers: A Tree a Rock a Cloud, W. Faulkner: The Bear 3. J. C. Ransom: Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter, A. Ginsberg: America, L. Ferlinghetti: The World Is a Beautiful Place, S. Plath: Cut 4. R. Carver: The Bath, J. Thurber: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 5. R. Brautigan: The Greyhound Tragedy, D. Barthelme: A Shower of Gold 6. H. Miller: Death of a Salesman 7. E. Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 8. W. E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk, L. Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Harlem 9. A. Walker: The Color Purple, Ralph Ellison: The Invisible Man 10. B. Malamud: Idiots First, P. Roth: Defender of the Faith 11. M. H. Kingston: The Woman Warrior, Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club 12. N. S. Momady: House Made of Dawn, L. M. Silko: Ceremony Odborná literatura: McQuade, D. (ed.): The Harper American Literature, New York: Harper & Row, 1987. Procházka, M. a kol.: Lectures on American Literature, 1. vydání, Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2002. Ruland, R. a Bradbury, M.: Od puritanismu k postmodernismu: Dějiny americké literatury, 1. vydání, Praha: Mladá fronta, 1998.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 1994, Summer 1995, Summer 1996, Summer 1997, Summer 1998, Summer 1999, Summer 2000, Summer 2001, Summer 2002, Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Summer 2006, Summer 2007, Summer 2009, Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020.
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