Předmět Selected Chapters from Am. Literature 2 (KAA / KAL2)

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Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Obsah

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 of plays will be analyzed in more detail, after their texts have been assigned for homework reading and short written comments before the debate in the class. Where possible and useful, video or film presentations will be brought into the critical discourse.The texts for critical analysis will include:Eugene O'Neill - Desire Under the ElmsEugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey into NightElmer Rice - The Adding MachineMaxwell Anderson - WintersetThornton Wilder - Our TownLillian Hellman - Little FoxesWilliam Saroyan - The Time of Your LifeTennessee Williams - The Streetcar Named DesireArthur Miller - Death of a SalesmanLorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the SunLeRoi Jones - DutchmanEdward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Získané způsobilosti

Schopnost studenta napsat souvislý kritický text v anglickém jazyce.

Literatura

Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, eds. A New Literary History of America. 2009. Gerald Berkowitz. American Drama of the Twentieth Century. 1992.

Požadavky

Students can earn the credits provided they have a seventy-percent course attendance, they 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 it should be submitted by mid-January.

Garant

prof. PhDr. Josef Jařab, CSc.