Britská literatúra, Americká literatúra

Enlightenment

Romanticism

Decadence

Pessimism

Political Fiction

Feminism

Modernism

Theatre of the Absurd

Naturalism

Jewish Literature

• English Literature:

  
  
  
  
  1. From Beowulf to Chaucer
  
  
  2. William Shakespeare: sonnets, romances, and comedies
  
  
  3. William Shakespeare: tragedies and historical plays
  
  
  4. Enlightenment: journalism and fiction: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding
  
  
  5. The first English antinovel: Sterne
  
  
  6. The facets of the English satire: Swift, Waugh
  
  
  7. Romanticism – Lake poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge
  
  
  8. Female contribution: Bronte sisters, Jane Austen
  
  
  9. Irish contribution – drama and poetry: Yeats, Shaw
  
  
  10. Scottish contribution – poetry and fiction: Burn, Scott
  
  
  11. Different faces of English realist fiction: Dickens, Wilson
  
  
  12. Decadence: Pater, Wilde
  
  
  13. Moral ambiguities of Conrad
  
  
  14. Hardy’s pessimism
  
  
  15. Lawrence’s traditionalism and modernism
  
  
  16. Political fiction: Orwell, Greene
  
  
  17. Feminism of Woolf
  
  
  18. Joyce - founder of modernism (Dubliners, A portrait…)
  
  
  19. Becket – founder of the theatre of the absurd
  
  
  
  

  American Literature:

  
  
  
  
  1. Colonial period – beginnings in American literature (Puritan authors)
  
  
  2. Revolutionary period
  
  
  3. Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau
  
  
  4. Romanticism: Melville, Poe
  
  
  5. Realism – local colorists: Twain
  
  
  6. The Americans in Europe: H. James
  
  
  7. Naturalism: S. Crane, D. Howells, J. London
  
  
  8. American dream and Theodore Dreiser
  
  
  9. The poetry in the end of the 20^th century
  
  
  10. Tendencies in American literature after the World War I
  
  
  11. E. Hemingway and lost generation
  
  
  12. J. Steinbeck and naturalism
  
  
  13. The 50-ies-tendencies and representatives
  
  
  14. Roaring Age
  
  
  15. William Faulkner
  
  
  16. Southern Renaissance
  
  
  17. The 60’s and the 70’s in prose
  
  
  18. Jewish American literature
  
  
  
  

   

• A. Burgess, English Literature;
• P.B. High, An Outline of American Literature