Selected Chapters of American Literature

Teaching results

Teaching Results:
Knowledge:
• Acquisition of knowledge about the main development lines in the history of American literature, about their most important representatives and their works.
The course is primarily focused on acquiring knowledge in the field of development of American literature and its most important periods. In addition to gaining knowledge of the history of English literature, students will also acquire generally applicable knowledge, broaden their cultural horizon and understand the connections between socio-historical and literary phenomena and events. Based on gaining an overview of individual periods and specific literary works, students will develop personal attitudes to events and their reflections in literature. The given knowledge is also applicable in related subjects and fields of study.
Competences:
• deepening critical thinking by reading and analyzing specific literary texts;
• understanding of basic terminology in the field of literary theory and its correct use in the analysis of literary works;
• competence to characterize individual literary directions, currents and schools and to abstract these characteristics from a specific literary text;
• competence in the field of linguistic analysis of a text on the basis of knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the period.
Skills:
• skill in the application of literary text analysis procedures - determination of the external and internal structure of the text, type of narrator, classification and characterization of characters, literary space, etc.;
• ability to analyze and express a critical opinion on representative works of selected authors of individual literary directions;
• the ability to assign a literary text to a specific literary period, current or school;
• skill in the intercultural approach to literature - the influence of world literatures on American literature and vice versa.