Předmět Americká literatura do 1865 (AJ15000)

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Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Cíl

A survey of American literature from the colonial period through the Civil War. Specific topics to be addressed are indicated on the syllabus below. Assigned readings have in most cases been excerpted and arranged specifically for the course, and therefore should be accessed at the web address indicated (see "Odkaz a informace učitele" below).

Osnova

25 September: BACKGROUND AND CONCEPTS FOR STUDYING EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURERead:Paul Boyer, American History: A Very Short Introduction, Preface and chapters 1-4----------------------------------------------------------------2 October: ENVISIONING THE “NEW-FOUND-LAND”Read:Michael Drayton, Ode to the Virginian VoyageSelections from Puritan writings, as postedWilliam Cullen Bryant, The Prairies----------------------------------------------------------------9 October: THE AMERICAN FOUNDINGRead:Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac and Autobiography, selections postedSelections from the Founders’ writings, as postedThe Declaration of IndependenceCrevecouer, Letters from an American Farmer, selections postedTench Coxe, A View of the United States, selections posted----------------------------------------------------------------16 October: NEOCLASSICISM AND CHANGING STYLESRead:Freneau and Brackenridge, The Rising Glory of AmericaSelected Federalist Papers and other writings, as postedSelected writings on George Washington, as posted----------------------------------------------------------------23 October: RACE AND SLAVERYRead:Selected poems of Phillis Wheatley, as postedSelected “slave song” lyrics and commentary, as postedSelected writings on race, as postedHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Haiawatha, selections posted----------------------------------------------------------------6 November: INVERSIONS AND SATIRESRead:Royall Tyler, The Contrast, posted summary and Act I scene 2; Act II scene 2; Act III scenes 1-2Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York, selections posted, and Rip Van WinkleSelections from early American humorists, as posted----------------------------------------------------------------13 November: TRANSCENDENTALISM AND THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCERead:Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson, as postedTheodore Parker, Of Justice and the ConscienceHenry David Thoreau, Walden, selections posted----------------------------------------------------------------20 November: THE HAUNTED PASTRead:The Book of Mormon, selections postedNathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman BrownEdgar Allen Poe, The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher----------------------------------------------------------------27 November: REVISIONISM AND PROTESTRead:William Apess, Lectures and Addresses, selections postedJames Whitfield, AmericaFrederick Douglass, Fourth of July AddressSelections from feminist and abolitionist writings, as posted----------------------------------------------------------------4 December: THE CRISIS OF THE 1850SRead:Frederick Douglass, Autobiography, selections postedHarriett Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, selections postedHerman Melville, Moby-Dick, selections postedWalt Whitman, selected poems, as posted----------------------------------------------------------------11 December: THE CIVIL WAR; REVIEW AND EXAM PREPARATIONRead:Abraham Lincoln, Addresses, selections postedSelected writings on the war, as posted

Literatura

doporučená literaturaGRAY, Richard J. A brief history of American literature. 1st pub. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. x, 410 s. ISBN 9781405192309. infoA handbook of American literature : for students of English. Edited by Zbigniew Lewicki. Warsaw: U.S. Embassy, 1997. vi, 256 s. info

Požadavky

( AJ09999 Postupová zkouška || AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II ) && AJ04003 Úvod do literatury II

Garant

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.

Vyučující

Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D.