Četba

1. African-American Literature from 1940s to 1960s.

(Authors: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes after WW II.)

Reading: Richard Wright, Black Boy. --> online zde, stažení zde

        

2. Black Female Writers. Womanism as the African-American Branch of Feminism.

Authors: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall.

Reading: Tonis Morrison, The Bluest Eye. --> online zde, stažení zde

 

3. American Drama after WW II.

Authors: Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.

Reading: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire. --> online zde, stažení zde

        

4. The Theatre of the Absurd and Model Drama.

Authors: Edward Albee, Arthur Kopit, Leroi Jones.

Reading: Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? --> online zde, stažení zde

 

5. Contemporary American Drama. Musical as a Specifically American Genre.

Authors: Arthur Miller and Edward Albee since 1980s, Woody Allen, David Mamet, Tony Kushner.

Reading: David Mamet, Oleanna. --> online zde, stažení zde

Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? or a play by Mamet or Kushner:

E.g. David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross. --> online zde, stažení zde

E.g. Tony Kushner, Angels in America. --> online zde, stažení zde

 

6. Modern American War Fiction. WW II, Korea, Vietnam.

Authors: Norman Mailer, James Jones, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Tim O’Brien, Michael Herr.

Reading: Joseph Heller, Catch-22. --> online zde, stažení zde

Or Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato.

 

7. Fiction Writers Publishing in the New Yorker Magazine.

Authors: John Updike, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Joyce Carol Oates.

Reading: John Updike, ‘A & P’ and four more short stories:

E.g. ‘Flight’. --> online zde

E.g. ‘Separating’. --> online zde

E.g. ‘The Persistence of Desire’. --> online zde 

E.g. ‘When Everyone Was Pregnant’. --> online zde

 

8. Minimalism in American Fiction and the New Lost Generation.

Authors: Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, David Leavitt, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney.

Reading: David Leavitt, ‘The New Lost Generation’. --> online zde, stažení zde

And four short stories or one novel by any of the authors:

E.g. Raymond Carver, ‘Are These Actual Miles?’. --> online zde

E.g. David Leavitt, ‘Gravity’. --> online zde

E.g. Jay McInerney, ‘Con Doctor’. --> online zde

E.g. Tobias Wolff, ‘Hunters in the Snow’. --> online zde

 

9. Jewish-American Writers.

Authors: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth.

Reading: Bernard Malamud, ‘Idiots First’ and four short stories or one novel by any of the authors:

E.g. Saul Bellow, ‘Looking for Mr. Green’. --> online zde

E.g. Bernard Malamud, ‘My Son the Murderer’. --> online zde

E.g. Philip Roth, ‘Defender of the Faith’. --> online zde

E.g. Isaac Bashevis Singer, ‘The Lecture’. --> online zde

 

10. William Faulkner after WW II and Southern Literature after the Southern Renaissance.

Authors: William Styron, Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty.

Reading: Flannery O’Connor, ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’.

Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter. --> online zde, stažení zde

 

11. Existencialism in the American South and Introduction of Popular Genres into ‘High’ Literature.

Authors: Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy.

Reading: Walker Percy, The Moviegoer. --> online zde, stažení zde

Or Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing.

 

12. Growing-up Novel as a Favourite Genre in American Literature.

Authors: Jerome David Salinger, Lewis Nordan, Warren Miller, John Irving, Fred Chappell.

Reading: Lewis Nordan, Music of the Swamp.

Or Fred Chappell, I Am One of You Forever.

Or J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye. --> online zde, stažení zde

 

13. Cultural Pluralism in American Literature. Native Americans and Chinese Americans.

Authors: Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan.

Reading: Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior. --> online zde, stažení zde

 

14. The Beats in American Prose and Poetry.

Authors: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Reznikoff, Ted Berrigan, Timothy Leary.

Reading: Ted Berrigan, ‘Tambourine Life’ or Allen Ginsberg, ‘Howl’.

 

15. Development of Poetry after WW II.

Authors: Poets from Dítě na skleníku, ed. Josef Jařab.

Reading: Josef Jařab, Dítě na skleníku and Poetry and Poets of Four Centuries.

 

16. Confessional Poetry.

Authors: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke.

Reading: Sylvia Plath, ‘The Applicant’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’, ‘Ariel’ and six other poems by any of the authors.

 

17. Projectivism in American Poetry.

Authors: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley.

Reading: Charles Olson, ‘Projective Verse’ --> online zde

And ten poems by Olson or Creeley.

 

18. Contemporary African-American Poetry.

Authors: Gwendolyn Brooks, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Michael Harper, Yusef Komunyakaa.

Reading: Poems from Masky a tváře černé Ameriky, ed. Josef Jařab, and ten more poems in English.

 

19. Literary Experiment in American Literature.

Authors: John Barth, Robert Coover, Thomas Pynchon, William Gass, William Gaddis, Ishmael Reed, Vladimir Nabokov.

Reading: Robert Coover, ‘Charlie in the House of Rue’. --> online zde, stažení zde

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita. --> online zde, stažení zde