FPF:UCJAU027 Contemporary American Literatu - Course Information
UCJAU027 Contemporary American Literature
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 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
- doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D.
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
- Secondary School Teacher Training in English (programme FPF, N7504 UcSS)
- Course objectives
- The course follows American Literature 1 and 2 and is centered on the pluralistic nature of contemporary American literature. The choice of selected texts reflects the diversity of American literature, much of it devoted to the literatures of cultures outside the mainstream, mainly American Jewish, African-American literature and popular genres such as graphic novels.
- Syllabus
- 1. American Jewish Poetry
2. San Francisco Renaissance
3. African American Poetry
4. Minimalism
5. American Jewish Short Story
6. Southern Literature
7. Holocaust Fiction
8. Graphic Novels
9. Postmodernism
10. The New Journalism
11. Feminist Prose
12. Contemporary Drama
- 1. American Jewish Poetry
- Literature
- 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 2015, recent)
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