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Lecturer(s)
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Woock Elizabeth Allyn, Mgr. PhD.
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Peprník Michal, prof. PhDr. Dr.
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Course content
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Due to the limited time of in-class hours (officially 22 hours) and the focus on practical work with texts during class, each semester will cover a different selection of authors and works from the overall list (below). It is the responsibility of students to familiarize themselves with the other authors during their personal study time (officially 50 hours) and practice the techniques learned in class. Each category has two main authors who you must know (also for the AL1Z and state exams), and you should study your choice of 60% of the secondary authors. This course covers (though not necessarily in this order): Realism, Naturalism, introducing Modernism Primary Authors: Stephen Crane, Jack London, Secondary Authors: Upton Sinclair, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, Southern Lit Primary Authors: William Faulkner, Carson McCullers Secondary Authors: Eudora Welty The Great Depression Primary Authors: John Steinbeck, Woodie Guthrie Secondary Authors: John Dos Passos "The Revolt from the Village" The Changing Midwest. Primary Authors: Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg Secondary Authors: E. L. Masters, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather Modernism in poetry Primary Authors: W. C. Williams, Edna St Vincent Millay, T.S. Eliot Secondary Authors: Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost Modern Drama Primary Authors: Eugene O'Neill, Lillian Hellman, Secondary Authors: Clifford Odets, Elmer Rice, Thornton Wilder Weird Tales and SciFi/Fantasy Primary Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Secondary Authors: Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Guy Endore, Ray Bradbury Harlem Renaissance Primary Authors: Richard Wright, Countee Cullen Secondary Authors: Claude McKay, Zora Neal Hurston, Nella Larson, The Jazz Age Primary Authors: Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes Secondary Authors: Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald The Lost Generation Primary Authors: Ernest Hemingway,* Gertrude Stein Secondary Authors: e e cummings, Djuna Barnes *please do not read The Old Man and the Sea - it is not within the time range of this course. Popular genres, Radio drama, comics Primary Authors: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, radio show "The Shadow" Secondary Authors: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Will and Max Gaines, Wyllis Cooper, radio shows "Lights Out", and "Amos and Andy" Literature of social reform Primary Authors: Jacob Riis, W. E. B. DuBois, Secondary Authors: Kate Chopin, Alain Locke, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
- Semestral Work
- 28 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 50 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 22 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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This survey literature seminar covers major developments and authors in the field of American poetry, fiction and drama from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. This course is a seminar, meaning that students will be engaged in active work during class meetings, and is not a lecture (passive sitting and listening to the lecture). The course aims to get students comfortable with close reading methodology on all types of texts: prose, poetry, scripts, comics, and radio drama. It also familiarlizes students with the basic technical components of analyzing a text.
Those who have attended the course will become familiar with the most important trends in American literature of the late 19th to mid-20th century. Students will have read a selection of primary source materials. The texts selected for the course change each semester, and the relevant texts are available on the course Moodle page.
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Prerequisites
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Introduction to Literature course (code UL00). AML2 American Literature to 1880
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Student performance
-attendance (maximum of two absences), a good knowledge of the texts (will be tested throughout), active participation in class work, weekly homework assignments 5 short written assignments completed during class. You must pass 4/5 of the assignments, 60% or more is a passing grade.
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Recommended literature
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Lauter, Paul. The Heath anthology of American Literature.
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Abrams, M.H. (2009). A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston.
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Baym, Nina, gen. ed. (2003). The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 6th ed.. New York.
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Gray, Richard. (2004). A History of American Literature. Oxford.
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Jařab, Josef. (1989). American Poetry and Poets of Four Centuries .
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Lauter, Paul, ed. (2008). The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 6th. ed.. Boston.
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