Americká literatura 1
(1) American Literature and Culture in the Colonial Period: Prose
(Richard Hakluyt, John Smith, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, William Byrd)
(2) American Literature and Culture in the Colonial Period: Puritan Poetry
(Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Jonathan Edwards)
(3) Literature of the American Revolution
(Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, St. John de Crevecoeur, Philip Freneau, The Federalist)
(4) Beginnings of National Literature: Poetry
(Philip Freneau, the Connecticut Wits, William Cullen Bryant)
(5) Beginnings of National Literature: Prose
(Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper)
(6) James Fenimore Cooper: National Writer and Romantic Mythmaker
(7) Edgar Allen Poe: Neoclassical Tradition vs. Romanticism
(His Literary Theory and Practice)
(8) Transcendentalism as the First American School of Thought: Its Origin, Aims, Achievements and Failures and Social Experiments
(Ralp Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller)
(9) New England Brahmins, or, Schoolroom Poets in the Historical Perspective
(Their Role in the Past, their Present Assessment; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russel Lowell, Oliver Wendel Holmes)
(10) Abolitionist Movement, White Literature Against Slavery
(Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier)
(11) Nathaniel Hawthorne, a Bad Puritan?
(Romance, Sinners of Pride, the Individual and the Community; his Style and Symbolism)
(12) Herman Melville: Studies in Monomaniacs
(Themes and Paradoxes in Moby Dick, Modern Condition in Bartleby the Scrivener, American Myth of Innocence in Billy Budd, Sailor; Poetry)
(13) Walt Whitman: an American Bard, Founder of American Modern Poetry, a Poet of Democracy
(Experiment in Form and Content)
(14) Emily Dickinson and her Poetic Innovations
(15) Regionalism, Local Color, Realism
(Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris)
(16) Mark Twain: Humorist vs. Satirist, East vs. West; Tall Tale and Folk Culture; Realism and Myth
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ZpětLiteratura
Baym, Nina, ed. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. London: Penguin, 1991.
Lauter, Paul, ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1994.
McQuade, Donald, gen.ed. The Harper American Literature. New York: Harper & Collins, 1996.
Ruland, Richard, Malcolm Bradbury. Od puritanismu k postmodernismu. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1997.
Vančura, Zdeněk, ed. Slovník spisovatelů: Spojené státy americké. Praha: Odeon, 1979.
Další zdroje
Peprník, Michal. Semináře: Americká literatura 1. ZS 2004/05.