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Lecturer(s)
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Šilhánek Ivan, Doc.
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Ženíšek Martin, PhD
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Course content
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The course provides an overview of the main periods in the development of American literature in its historical context from the colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. It covers the poetry and prose of the colonial period, Romanticism (Hawthorne, Melville, Poe), Transcendentalism (Emerson, Thoreau), 19th-century poetry (Dickinson, Whitman), Realism (Twain, James).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 22 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 40 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 15 hours per semester
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| Students are capable of - defining the main trends of American literature to the end of the 19th century - discussing the works of individual authors of this period, and identify the main themes and literary forms of a given writer - analysing the relation of individual writers to the period?s general literary trends |
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Recommended literature
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Baym, Nina. The Norton anthology of American literature. Shorter 6th ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN 0-393-97969-5.
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Bercovitch S. (ed.). The Cambridge History of American Literature,. Cambridge, CUP, 1995.
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Ford B. (ed.). American Literature.. London, Penguin Books, 1991.
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Holman, Clarence Hugh. A handbook to literature. 5. ed. New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986. ISBN 0-02-356410-5.
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Procházka, Martin. Lectures on American literature. Prague : Karolinum, 2002. ISBN 80-246-0358-6.
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Reynolds D. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.. Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1997.
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Rowe J. C. At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature.. New York, Columbia University Press, 1997.
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