JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM
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Course: Twentieth Century American Poetry: The Quest for Reality

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Course title Twentieth Century American Poetry: The Quest for Reality
Course code KAJ/4802
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
Course content
At the completion of this course, students should have an excellent grasp of the poetry of twentieth century America, a better understanding of what poetry is and how it functions, and a method for using what they have learned for better performance during examinations, and for their own teaching of literature.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
This course is intended to examine American poetry in relation to its Modernist and Postmodernist perspectives, with special emphasis on Free and Formal Verse, Imagism, Confessional Poetry, Organic Verse, Open Field Poetry, and Language Poetry, in order to survey the variety of ways in which twentieth century American poets have attempted to portray, reflect, and create the reality that they perceive.
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Prerequisites
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Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
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Recommended literature
  • Allen, Donald, ed. The New American Poetry 1945-1960. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1999.
  • Allison, Allexander W. et. al. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.
  • Carruth, Hayden, ed. The Voice that is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century. New York: Bantam, 1970.
  • Hirshfield, Jane. Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. New York: Harper, 1998.
  • Kinzie, Mary. The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose. Chicago: U. of Chicago P., 1993.
  • Nemerov, Howard. Figures of Thought. Boston: Godine, 1979.
  • Perloff, Marjorie. The Poetics of Indeterminacy. Evanston: Northwestern U. P., 1999.
  • Pound, Ezra. ABC of Reading. New York: New Directions, 2010.
  • Reginald Gibbons, ed. The Poet's Work. Chicago, 1979.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): - (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): English Language and Literature (A14) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching English Language and Literature for Primary Schools (A14) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Winter
JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNĚ UNIVERSITY IN ÚSTÍ NAD LABEM, date of update: 01.06.2024 23:51.