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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Old English Literature: Folklore, heroic epic, elegies. Texts: riddles, Beowulf. Early Medieval Poetry and Prose. Texts: Arthurian legends (selection). Late Medieval Poetry and Prose. Text: G. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (selection). Early Renaissance Poetry and Prose. Texts: T. More, T. Wyatt, H. Howard (selection). Elizabethan Poetry and Prose. Texts: P. Sidney, W. Shakespeare, Sir W. Raleigh (selection). Drama until 1600. Text: W. Shakespeare: Othello. Poetry and Prose 1600 - 1660. Texts: F. Bacon, B. Jonson, J. Donne, G. Herbert, R. Herrick, J. Milton (selection). Restoration and Classicism. Texts: J. Dryden, A. Pope, S. Johnson (selection). Beginnings of the Novel. J. Addison, R. Steele, J. Swift, H. Fielding. Text: D. Defoe: Moll Flanders. Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism. Texts: S. Richardson, E. Young, T. Gray, W. Blake (selection). Romanticism: Texts: W. Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge (selection). Gothic Novel: H. Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Text: M. Shelley: Frankenstein.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Stimulating activities (simulation, games, drama)
- Participation in classes
- 39 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 55 hours per semester
- Preparation of a presentation (report) in a foreign language
- 3 hours per semester
- Preparation for a credit (assessment)
- 20 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to classic works, authors and periods of British literature from its beginnings until the 18th century (following periods under focus in BBRL2/EBRL2). Lectures provide a chronological overview of individual phases of literary development, their specific features and overlap. Seminars complement the lectures and stress reading of representative materials, their analysis and interpretation in the context of not only British literature, but also cultural and socio-political events.
Students will acquire textual and analytical literary competence in literary areas. In terms of learning competences, they will acquire an overview of the historical development of British literature, main authors and works, together with their contextualization within the period of their making. Regular guided analyses of seminary texts establish the ability to work with literary works independently and critically.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination
- Attendance (3 missed classes max.) - Active participation preparation for seminars - Cooperation in a team presentation - Final written test (ability to discuss 3 assigned primary texts [see below] + knowledge based on lectures, seminars and relevant parts of Paul Poplawski: English Literature in Context - see below) primary texts: 1/ The Seafarer 2/ Chaucer: selection from Canterbury Tales - General Prologue, Knight's Tale, Wife of Bath's Tale. 3/ Wordsworth: Michael Relevant parts of Poplawski (pagination = 2009 edition) 1/ Medieval English - Literary Overview 33-49, Texts and Issues 50-72 2/ The Renaissance - Literary Overview 145-170, Texts and Issues 170-183 3/ The Restoration and 18th century - Literary overview243-264, Readings 281-300 4/ The Romantic Period - Literary Overview 327-349, 373-392.
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Recommended literature
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BLOOM, Harold. Elizabethan Drama. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
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DRABBLE, Margaret, ed. The Oxford companion to English literature. 6th ed.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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FORD, Boris. New Pelican guide to English literature: The Age of Shakespeare. London: Penguin Books, 1982.
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GREENBLATT, Stephen. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume. II.. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
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Poplawski, Paul. English literature in context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-83992-1.
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POPLAWSKI, Paul. English Literature in Context. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. ISBN 9780521549288.
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PROCHÁZKA, M. Slovník spisovatel?: Anglická literatura .. waleská literatura. Praha: Libri, 1996. ISBN 80-85983-04-4.
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Sanders, Andrew. The short Oxford history of English literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-926338-8.
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STEVENS, David. Romanticicsm. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.
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