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Lecturer(s)
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Kalavská Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Colonial Literature Literature of the Revolution and Enlightenment Early 19th Century Fiction Transcendentalism Realism, naturalism Modernism (Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance) Literature of the American South The Beat Generation. Afro-American Literature, Jewish-American Literature American Literature in the 1980s and 1990s (All the texts are available in Moodle)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on important milestones in the history of American literature since its beginnings to the end of the 2Oth century. Seminars concentrate on the analysis of the chosen texts and discussion about historical and cultural context.
Students will develop their communicative competence, competence of literary and cultural analysis and intercultural competence.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination, Work-related product analysis
Seminar attendance and participation in discussions. Oral examination at the end of the term.
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Recommended literature
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Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of Ages. Harcourt Brace, 1994.
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Kenner, Hugh. A Homemade World: American Modernist Writers. New York: Knopf, 1975.
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Marcel Arbeit, Jakub Guziur. Vypravěči amerického Jihu. Praha - Litomyšl: Paseka, 2006.
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Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Oxford University Press, 1964.
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