FPF:UCJCA124 American Literature 2 - Course Information
UCJCA124 American Literature 2
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The course follows the American literature 1. It focuses on the development of American literature from the early 20th century to the present. Great emphasis is placed on the techniques of pre-modernism and modernism. This course aims to show the diversity of American literature, much of it is devoted to the literatures of cultures outside the mainstream, mainly American Jewish and African-American literature.
- Syllabus
- 1. The Harlem Renaissance
2. The founders of Anglo-American Modernism
3. American Modernism in Poetry
4. Southern Literature
5. The Lost Generation
6. American Drama Between the Wars
7. American Jewish Literature
8. American Postwar Prose
9. The Beat Generation
10. American Postwar Drama
11. Postwar American Poetry
12. American Postmodernism
- 1. The Harlem Renaissance
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Regular attendance to the seminars, presentation/essay and a successful completion of a written test which would prove the students` ability to apply theoretical background upon texts.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2018, recent)
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