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Lecturer(s)
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Peprník Michal, prof. PhDr. Dr.
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Course content
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The texts for critical analysis will include: Eugene O´Neill - Desire Under the Elms Eugene O´Neill - Long Day´s Journey into Night Elmer Rice: - The Adding Machine Maxwell Anderson - Winterset Thornton Wilder - Our Town Lillian Hellman - Little Foxes William Saroyan - The Time of Your Life Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun LeRoi Jones - Dutchman Edward Albee - Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
- Homework for Teaching
- 25 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 25 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 24 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course will present and discuss the history of modern American drama from the emergence of Eugene O´Neill to mid- century. Besides both general and more specific information on the development of dramatic forms, and performing modes in the theater, a dozen plays will be analyzed in more detail, after their texts have been asigned for homework reading and a short written assignment. Where possible and useful, video or film presentations will be brought into the critical discourse.
Besides both general and more specific information on the development of dramatic forms, and performing modes in the theater, a dozen plays will be analyzed in more detail, after their texts have been assigned for homework reading and a short written assignment.
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Prerequisites
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The course will present and discuss the history of modern American drama from the emergence of Eugene O´Neill to the mid- century. Intended audience: students of English Philology and Translation Studies.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Student performance
Students can earn three credits provided they have seventy-percent course attendance, write all the short assignments for every class and a five-page critical essay on a play of their own choice, and after a colloquy over their personal reading list of plays discussed in the course during the term. The essay should be written in English, completed with bibliographical notes and should be submitted by mid-January.
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Recommended literature
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Gerald Berkowitz. (1992). American Drama of the Twentieth Century.
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Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds. (2009). A New Literary History of America.
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