Americká literatura - témata k závěrečné zkoušce

Section outline

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  General

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  This course has been designed with the sole purpose of providing a basic outline of American literature. The structure mirrors Bc. final exam requirements. The course can therefore be seen as backup material that seeks to complement the lectures.

  Please note that brief lecture notes can be downloaded here and most of the video lectures have been posted on google drive so that they can be watched or dowloaded in a less compressed format.

  American literature topics 1-7. American literature topics 7-15.

  Some of these are just long unedited recordings of webinars taught via Zoom.

  • Select activity A brief outline of US literature (source book)

    

    A brief outline of US literature (source book) File
  • Select activity Other source books

    

    Other source books Assignment
  • Select activity Overview topics for the comprehensive exam

    

    Overview topics for the comprehensive exam File
• Select section Colonial American Period:

  Colonial American Period:

  First settlers in New England and Virginia, major genres of 17th - early 18th century Puritan New England, John Smith and Native American reflections

  • Select activity Colonial American literature - lecture

    

    Colonial American literature - lecture File
  • Select activity Colonial_period_Enlightenment_brief notes

    

    Colonial_period_Enlightenment_brief notes File
• Select section American Enlightenment and Revolution

  American Enlightenment and Revolution

  T. Paine and his Common Sense, B. Franklin, T. Jefferson and the Founding Fathers.

  • Select activity A lecture on Enlightenment in .ppt - updated in 2022

    

    A lecture on Enlightenment in .ppt - updated in 2022 File
• Select section 19th-century Romanticism I

  19th-century Romanticism I

  W. Irving, J.F.Cooper, E.A.Poe

  • Select activity American Romanticism I and II - notes

    

    American Romanticism I and II - notes File
• Select section 19th-century Romanticism II, Transcendentalism, transition between Romanticism and Realism

  19th-century Romanticism II, Transcendentalism, transition between Romanticism and Realism

  N. Hawthorne, Transcendentalism (Emerson, Thoreau), transition phase - Melville´s Moby Dick

  • Select activity Romanticism II - Transcendentalism (slightly more detailed lecture notes)

    

    Romanticism II - Transcendentalism (slightly more detailed lecture notes) File
• Select section Early American Realism/Naturalism

  Early American Realism/Naturalism

  Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Kate Chopin

  • Select activity Realism_lecture

    

    Realism_lecture File
  • Select activity Realism - Brief lecture notes

    

    Realism - Brief lecture notes File
• Select section American Poetry of the 2nd half of the 19th century and of the beginning of the 20th century

  American Poetry of the 2nd half of the 19th century and of the beginning of the 20th century

  Fireside poets, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, possibly Carl Sandburg

  • Select activity Lecture - 19th-20th century poetry

    

    Lecture - 19th-20th century poetry File
  • Select activity Lecture in MP3

    

    Lecture in MP3 File
  • Select activity Whitman_Dickinson

    

    Whitman_Dickinson File
• Select section Early 20th-century American Realist Fiction

  Early 20th-century American Realist Fiction

  Upton Sinclair, T. Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather

  • Select activity Early 20th century Realism

    

    Early 20th century Realism File
• Select section The “Lost Generation“ and American Modernism

  The “Lost Generation“ and American Modernism

  E. Hemingway, F.S.Fitzgerald, W.Faulkner

  • Select activity Modernism_Lost Generation

    

    Modernism_Lost Generation File
• Select section American Fiction of the 1930s through the 1960s:

  American Fiction of the 1930s through the 1960s:

  J.Steinbeck, J.D.Salinger, the Beatniks, possibly also women writers from the American South (Harper Lee, Carson McCullers) and modern American Gothic (F. O´Connor, Shirley Jackson´s Lottery)

  • Select activity a lecture template (.ppt)

    

    a lecture template (.ppt) File
• Select section Reflections of WWII in American literature

  Reflections of WWII in American literature

  J.Heller, N. Mailer, L.M Silko, W.Styron, D. Guterson, possibly also J. Steinbeck and seminar reading assignments (Roth, Malamud)

  • Select activity Full lecture in MP4

    

    Full lecture in MP4 File
  • Select activity Lecture for iPod

    

    Lecture for iPod File
• Select section Post-Modernism

  Post-Modernism

  Typical features and recognizable narrative techniques, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Michael Cunningham, possibly also Raymond Carver and Thomas Pynchon

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    Postmodernism File
  • Select activity Lecture

    

    Lecture File
• Select section American Jewish Literature

  American Jewish Literature

  Bernard Malamud, I.B.Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, possibly also M. Chabon, R. Goldstein or J.S. Foer

  • Select activity Jewish American literature

    

    Jewish American literature File
• Select section American Poetry of the 20th Century:

  American Poetry of the 20th Century:

  T.S.Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery

  • Select activity Lecture backup in .ppt

    

    Lecture backup in .ppt File
  • Select activity Frost

    

    Frost File
• Select section Representative American Drama:

  Representative American Drama:

  Arthur Miller, Eugene O´Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard

  • Select activity American drama - part 1

    

    American drama - part 1 File
  • Select activity American drama - part 2

    

    American drama - part 2 File
  • Select activity American drama - part 3

    

    American drama - part 3 File
  • Select activity American drama 4 - Theatre of the Absurd

    

    American drama 4 - Theatre of the Absurd File
• Select section African American Literature

  African American Literature

  Slave narratives, Z.N. Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison

  For a 3-part summary, please see https://dl1.cuni.cz/mod/folder/view.php?id=525717
• Select section Summary: Complete lectures in .ppt and video

  Summary: Complete lectures in .ppt and video

  • Select activity 1. Colonial literature

    

    1. Colonial literature File
  • Select activity 2. Enlightenment - updated in May 2022

    

    2. Enlightenment - updated in May 2022 File
  • Select activity 3. Romanticism part I

    

    3. Romanticism part I File
  • Select activity 3. Romanticism part III

    

    3. Romanticism part III File
  • Select activity 5. Early Realism and Naturalism - part 1 (Local Color)

    

    5. Early Realism and Naturalism - part 1 (Local Color) URL
  • Select activity 5. Early Realism and Naturalism - part 2

    

    5. Early Realism and Naturalism - part 2 File
  • Select activity 6. poetry in the 2nd half of the 19th century

    

    6. poetry in the 2nd half of the 19th century File
  • Select activity 7. Realism_Naturalism_early_20th cent

    

    7. Realism_Naturalism_early_20th cent File
  • Select activity 8. Lost Generation and Modernism, part 1

    

    8. Lost Generation and Modernism, part 1 File
  • Select activity 8. Lost Generation and Modernism, part 2

    

    8. Lost Generation and Modernism, part 2 File
  • Select activity 9. 1930s through 1960s

    

    9. 1930s through 1960s File
  • Select activity 10. WWI and WWII in US literature

    

    10. WWI and WWII in US literature File
  • Select activity 11. Postmodernism

    

    11. Postmodernism File
  • Select activity 11. Postmodernism - video

    

    11. Postmodernism - video File
  • Select activity 12. Jewish_American_literature - video

    

    12. Jewish_American_literature - video File
  • Select activity 13. Poetry - 20th century

    

    13. Poetry - 20th century File
  • Select activity 14. American_drama (A loosely edited 4-part video is downloadable from section 14 above)

    

    14. American_drama (A loosely edited 4-part video is downloadable from section 14 above) File
  • Select activity 15. African American

    

    15. African American Folder