FPF:UCJAM017 Contemporary British and Ameri - Course Information

UCJAM017 Contemporary British and American Literature

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

• English in combination with another discipline (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
• English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo) (2)

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.

• Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2017, recent)
  
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