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Voznice : Leda, 2005

171 s.,front. : il.

ISBN 80-7335-053-X (brož.)

Obsahuje ilustrace, fotografie, předmluvu, nositele Pulitzerovy ceny

Učebnici doplňuje stejnojmenné CD (sign. K1387)

Kultura americká - dějiny - stol. 20. - učebnice

Literatura americká - dějiny - stol. 20. - učebnice

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CONTENTS // Preface 7 // CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION // 1. Quotation 9 // 2. American Culture 9 // 3. American 9 // 4. History 10 // 5. Timeline 10 // 6. Songs 10 // 7. England or America? 12 // 8. Ellis Island 12 // 9. Map 15 // 10. Native Americans 15 // 11. Homework 16 // CHAPTER 2 - FROM THE BEGINNING // OF THE 20th CENTURY TO THE 1920s // 1. Turn of the Century 17 // 2. Period Photographs 18 // 3. History 19 // 4. Uncle Sam 19 // 5. Jazz, Cars and Movies 20 // 6. Silent Movie Stars 21 // 7. James Agee 22 // 8. Music: The Entertainer 23 // 9. E. L. Doctorow 24 // 10. Gertrude Stein 27 // 11. Food 27 // 12. Cubist Painting and Poem 28 // 13. Homework 28 // CHAPTER 3 - THE 1920s // 1. Music of the 1920s 29 // 2. The Roaring Twenties 30 // 3. Joseph Stella 31 // 4. Flapper 31 // 5. Edna St.Vincent Millay 32 // 6. Francis Scott Fitzgerald 32 // 7. Hemingway in Photographs 34 // 8. Ernest Hemingway 35 // 9. Hemingway’s Style 37 // 10. Raymond Chandler 38 // 11. Homework: Edward Hopper 39 // CHAPTER 4 - THE 1930s // 1. Jack London 40 // 2. Quiz 42 // 3. Wall Street 42 // 4. Economic Terms 43 // 5. Music: This Land is Your Land 43 // 6. John Steinbeck 43 // 7. James Thurber 45 // 8. Quotations and Proverbs 51 // 9. Homework 51 // CHAPTER 5 - THE SOUTH // 1. Characteristics 52 // 2. The Slave Trade 52 // 3. Quotation 52 // 4. Life as a Slave 53 // 5. North and South 53 // 6. Liberia 54 // 7. Harper Lee 55 // 8. Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit 56 // 9. William Faulkner 57 // 10. Faulkner’s

Style of Writing 59 // 11. Homework 59 // CHAPTER 6 - TRADITION, CONFESSION AND PLAYFULNESS // 1. Poetry and Prose 60 // 2. Two Poems 61 // 3. Robert Frost 61 // 4. Sylvia Plath 65 // 5. William Carlos Williams 66 // 6. Man Ray 67 // 7. e.e. cummings 68 // 8. Homework 70 // CHAPTER 7 - WORLD WAR II // 1. Lindbergh’s Argument 71 // 2. Terms 71 // 3. Pearl Harbor 72 // 4. David Guterson 72 // 5. Joseph Heller 72 // 6. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 76 // 7. Art Spiegelman 78 // 8. Homework 81 // CHAPTER 8 - THE BEAT GENERATION // 1. Beat . 82 // 2. Jack Kerouac 82 // 3. Gregory Corso 85 // 4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti 87 // 5. Allen Ginsberg 88 // 6. Tomato Soup Cans 89 // 7. Homework 89 // 5 // CHAPTER 9 - YOUNG HEROES // 1. William Saroyan 90 // 2. Alexander Calder 92 // 3. Truman Capote 93 // 4. J(erome) D(avid) Salinger 94 // 5. Philip Roth 95 // 6. Raymond Carver 98 // 7. Lome Moore 99 // 8. Homework 100 // CHAPTER 10 - THE THEATRE // 1. Broadway Associations 101 // 2. History 101 // 3. Shakespeare in Parks 102 // 4. Musicals 103 // 5. Arthur Miller 104 // 6. Tennessee Williams 105 // 7. Edward Albee 107 // 8. Contemporary Playwrights: Sam Shepard 109 // 9. Frank Lloyd Wright 109 // 10. Homework 110 // CHAPTER 11 - JEWISH-AMERICAN WRITERS // 1. Terms 111 // 2. Chart 111 // 3. Chaim Potok 111 // 4. Mark Rothko 112 // 5. Bernard Malamud 11 2 // 6. Saul Bellow 115 // 7. Cynthia Ozick 115 // 8. Homework 116 // CHAPTER 12 - DIFFERENT VOICES: // INTRODUCTION // 1. Literature on the Move 117 // 2.

Race and How to Define It 118 // NATIVE AMERICAN WRITERS // 1. Myth or Fact? 11 8 // 2. Leslie Marmon Silko 11 8 // 3. Sherman Alexie 11 9 // 4. George Catlin 1 22 // 5. Homework 1 22 // CHAPTER 13 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN // WRITERS // 1. Blues and Bessie Smith 1 23 // 2. Harlem Renaissance 1 23 // 3. Langston Hughes 1 24 // 4. Ralph Ellison 126 // 5. Maya Angelou 1 27 // 6. Toni Morrison 129 // 7. Alice Walker 1 30 // 8. Other Black Writers: Jamaica Kincaid 1 32 // 9. Homework 1 33 // CHAPTER 14 - RECENT VOICES: HISPANIC-AMERICAN WRITERS // 1. Terms 1 34 // 2. Stereotypes 1 34 // 3. Rudolpho Anaya 1 34 // 4. Sandra Cisneros 1 35 // 5. Salsa 1 37 // ASIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS // 1. A Model Minority, Yes or No? 138 // 2. Maxine Hong Kingston 1 38 // 3. Jhumpa Lahiri 1 39 // 4. Nam June Paik 141 // 5. Homework 142 // CHAPTER 15 - MORE VOICES OF TODAY // 1. Variety 143 // 2. John Updike 143 // 3. Cormac McCarthy 144 // 4. Joyce Carol Oates 146 // 5. Jeffrey Eugenides 146 // 6. Music: Philip Glass 148 // 7. Homework 148 // 20th Century American Writers 149 // Literary Map 160 // Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winners 162 // US Nobel Prize for Literature Winners 164 // Films Based on the Literary Works 165 // Chronology - US Historical Events, // US Literary Events 166 // 6