Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol.

1. Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

2. Americanliterature Part 2

3. History of American Literature 7 Realism – The Guilded Age Henry James – one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. Daisy Miller - novellaabout an American girl in Europe. serves as both a psychological description of the mind of a young woman, and an analysis of the traditional views of a society where she is an outsider. The Turn of the Screw, enigmatic ghost story. .

4. Mark Twain Mark Twain His regional masterpieces were the Memoir Lifen on the Missisipi and the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain'scharacters speak like real people and sound distinctively American, using local dialects, newly invented words, and regional accents

5. Turn of the century At the beginning of the 20th century, American novelists were expanding fiction's social spectrum to encompass both high and low life and sometimes connected to the naturalist school of realism. Edith Wharton(Age of Innocence) - in her stories she scrutinized the upper-class society in which she had grown up. Stephen Crane- depicted the life of New York City prostitutes in Maggie: A girl of the Streets . Theodore Dreiser - in Sister Carrie portrayed a country girl who moves to Chicago and becomes a kept woman. Hamlin Garland and Frank Norris wrote about the problems of American farmers and other social issues from a naturalist perspective. History of American literature 9

6. Gertrude Stein – published Three lives , an innovative work of fiction influenced by her familiarity with cubism, jazz, and other movements in contemporary art and music. Stein labeled a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s as the Lost Generation . Lost generation Ezra Pound - poet, his work is complex, sometimes obscure, with multiple references to other art forms and to a vast range of literature, both Western and Eastern. T.S. Eliot - wrote spare, cerebral poetry, carried by a dense structure of symbols. In The Waste Land , he embodied a jaundiced vision of post-World War I society in fragmented, haunted images. F. Scott Fitzgerald- captured the restless, pleasure-hungry, defiant mood of the 1920s. Fitzgerald' s characteristic theme, expressed poignantly in The Great Gatsbyn , is the tendency of youth's golden dreams to disolve in failure.

7. Ernest Hemingway - saw violence and death first-hand as an ambulance driver in World War I, and the carnage persuaded him that abstract language was mostly empty and misleading The Sun Also Rises.and A Farewell to Arms are generally considered his best novels. William Faulkner recorded his characters' seemingly unedited ramblings in order to represent their inner states, a technique called "stream of consciousness."He also jumbled time sequences to show how the past – especially the slave-holding era of the Deep South – endures in the present. Among his great works are The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Go Down, Moses, and The Unvanquished.

8. Depresion era literature John Steinbeck simple and evocative styles wrote about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life TheGrapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men East of Eden. Henry Miller major works are Tropic of Cancer , Black Spring their themes and stylistic innovations influenced generations of American writers

9. Post-World War II realistic modernists wildly romantic beatnics. Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (pict.) • the most influential novelist in America in the decades following World War II, in works like The Adventures of Augie March and Henderson the Rain King • vivid portraits of the American city and its distinctive characters Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar Vladimir Nabokov -, Lolita John Updikewrote about more idyllic side of American life, quiet but subversive writing style.

10. Ralph Ellison -Invisible Man was instantly recognized as amongthe most powerful and sensational works of the immediate post-war years. The story of a black man in the urban north,is a great characterstudybut also shows repressed racial tension still prevailing inthe nation. Flannery O'Connor - explored and developed the theme of 'the South' in American literature (Wise Blood,The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge).

11. The Beat Generation • group of American writers in the 1950s, and the cultural • phenomena that they wrote about and inspired • rejection of mainstream values, experimentation with drugs and • alternate forms of sexuality, and an interest in Eastern religion. William S. Burroughs • most of his work semi-autobiographical - his experiences as an opiate addict,, his first novel being Junky. Burroughs' work was often based on his socially critial observances on the moral, political and economic systems of modern American society. Alan Ginsberg - was an American poet who vigorously opposed militarism, matrialism a and sexual repression. Made famous by thepoem Howlthat began: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..." Jack Kerouac - is famous for both his spontaneous style and for his content which dealt with topics such as jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. Most famous work „On the road“

12. Allen Ginsberg in 1985

13. War Novel Norman Mailer (pict.) -The Naked and the Death Joseph Heller - Catch 22 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five Barbara Garson - MacBird

14. 1970-2000 Postmodernism Thomas Pynchon - his books show modernist features - temporal distortion, unreliable narrators and internal monologues plus distinctly postmodern techniques such as metafiction, absurdist humor and a subversive commingling of high and low culture. Gravity Rainbow

15. Toni Morrison - writing in the realist tradition in a distinctive poetic and deeply evocative prose style. Her best-known novels are Sula, Song of Solomon and Beloved. Don DeLillo - rose to literary prominence with the publication of his 1985 novel,White Noise, a work broaching the subjects of death and consumerism and doubling as a piece of social criticism, began his writing career in 1971 with Americana.

17. Paul Auster - known for his experimentation with fragmented narratives, unreliable narrators, metafiction, intertextuality and multiple points of view, Auster marries absurdism with elements of crime fiction. Among his most critically successful works are The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, Leviathan and Oracle Night.

18. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem a rozpočtem České republiky. Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.