UCJAM017 Contemporary British and American Literature

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.
Guaranteed by
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
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 1. Classics of American Short Story: Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
    2. American Regionalism in Short Story: Twain, Gilman, Chopin
    3. British Pre-romanticism: Burns, Cowper, Gray, Chatterton, William Blake
    4. Romantic Prose and Criticism: Walter Scott, James Hogg, William Hazlitt
    5. Post-Romanticism in Prose: Stevenson, Brontë sisters, Mary Shelley, Stoker
    6. San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation: Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso
    7. Contemporary American poetry: Philip Levine, I. A. Baraka, Jerome Rothenberg, Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, Michael Harper, Gwedolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop
    8. Southern Literature: William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Richard Ford, Elizabeth Spencer, Walker Percy, Ernest Gaines , Cormac MacCarthy
    9. Contemporary American drama: Arthur Kopit, Edward Albee, Sam Shepherd, David Mamet
    10. American Jewish Fiction: Bernard Malamud, I.B. Singer, Allegra Goodman, E.L. Doctorow, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Jerzy Kosinski
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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