1. SylabUZ
2. Wydział Humanistyczny
3. semestr zimowy 2023/2024
4. WH - oferta ERASMUS / Filologia angielska - Program Erasmus pierwszego stopnia
5. Electives - Man of 1st half of 20th century in American literature

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Electives - Man of 1st half of 20th century in American literature - opis przedmiotu

Cel przedmiotu

Familiarizing students with the selected American literary works of the first half of the twentieth century and the development of literary analysis skill, particularly from a philosophical perspective.  

Wymagania wstępne

Zapisz zmiany

None.

Zakres tematyczny

1. Existentialism
2. Philosophical reflections on freedom
3. A modern man in T.S. Elliot’s poetry
4. Imagists
5. Langston Hughes’ blues poetry
6. The 1920s
7. The Great Depression of the 1930s
8. American South and North in drama
9. Sexual revolution of the 1950s.
10. A literary image of a veteran.

Metody kształcenia

Seminar lecture, text analysis, discussion, group work.

Efekty uczenia się i metody weryfikacji osiągania efektów uczenia się

Opis efektu	Symbole efektów	Metody weryfikacji	Forma zajęć

Warunki zaliczenia

Graded credit for the analysis of literary representation of the relationship between an individual and the external world and for the presentation on the selected philosophical aspect related to the experience of a modern man.

Literatura podstawowa

1. Capote, T. 1961. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
2. Eliot, T. S. 1976. Selected poems. London: Faber and Faber.
3. Fitzgerald, F. S. 1950. The great Gatsby. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
4. Hansberry, L. 1995. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Modern Library. - provided by the teacher
5. Hughes, L. 1995. The collected poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
6. London, J. 1982. Novels and social writings. New York: Literary Classics of the United States.
7. Steinbeck, J. 2000. Of mice and men. London: Penguin Books.
8. Williams, T. 2000. A streetcar named desire and other plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
9. Williams, W. C. 1976. Selected poems. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
10. Vonnegut, K. 1979. Slaughterhouse-Five or The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death. London: Triad Panther.

Literatura uzupełniająca

1. Allen E. L. 1957. From Plato to Nietzsche. New York: Association Press. – provided by the teacher
2. Fromm, Erich. 1969. Escape from freedom. New York: Henry Holt.
3. Rokosz-Piejko, E. and Niedziela, B. 2012. The highlights of American literature. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego.

Uwagi

None.

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