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Lecturer(s)
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Vít Ladislav, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Old English literature. Texts: Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon writing. Middle English literature. Texts: Arthurian legends and G. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales. Renaissance: Reformation and Humanism. Texts: 16thc. poetry and prose. Renaissance - Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Texts: W. Shakespeare: Othello. Classicism. Texts: selection of classicist poetry and prose. Romanticism. Texts: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron. English novel from Defoe to Hardy. Texts: C. Bronte: Wuthering Heights. Victorian era and the early 20th c. modernist break with tradition. Texts: J. Conrad, J. Joyce, V. Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E. Pound, T.S. Eliot. The wars and the end of the empire. Texts: W. Golding: The Lord of the Flies. From the welfare state till the present - Introduction and Poetry. Texts: P. Larkin, T. Harrison, S. Heaney. 20th c. drama: from the revival until T. Stoppard. Texts: J. Osborne: Look Back in Anger. Post-colonial literature. Texts: S. Rushdie, A. Ladha. Post-Modernism and women literature. Film: French Lieutenant's Woman (K. Reisz, 2002, 119 mins).
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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)
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to introduce students to key works, authors and periods of British literature from the beginnings until the present. In view of the students' professional orientation, emphasis is placed on approaching the topics within an illustrative cultural and socio-political context. Seminars complement lectures in that they consist in work with sample primary materials.
Students will acquire textual and analytical literary competence in literary areas. They acquire sufficient overview of the historical development of the literature, and, through regular analyses of texts, they cultivate the ability of literary interpretation which are both skills and competences required in their further studies.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
KAA/ULIA
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral examination
- maxuimum 3 missed classes - home reading + preparation of texts assigned for individual seminars. - active participation in seminar discussions - oral examination - - application of theoretical knowledge on concrte literary texts - thorough knowledge of 6 assigned texts for the examination: 1/ Anonymous: The Seafarer (see handout no.1) 2/ G. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales General Prologue, Knight's Tale, Wife of Bath's Tale 3/ W.Wordsworth: Michael 4/ G. Orwell: 1984 5/ J. Fowles: The Collector 6/ T. Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Recommended literature
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ABRAMS, M.H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume. I. 6th ed.. New York : W.W. Norton & Co, ISBN 0-393-96288-1, 1993.
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ABRAMS, M.H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume. II. 6th ed.. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., ISBN 0-393-96289-X., 1993.
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ALEXANDER, M. A History of English Literature. Basingstoke. Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-67226-7, 2000.
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PROCHÁZKA, M. et al. Slovník spisovatel?: Anglická literatura .. waleská literatura. Praha : Libri, ISBN 80-85983-04-4, 1996.
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SANDERS, A. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. 3rd ed.. Oxford : OUP, ISBN 0-19-926338-8, 2004.
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STŘÍBRNÝ, Z. Dějiny anglické literatury, Díl 1.,2.. Praha : Academia, ISBN 21-030-87/01, 1987.
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