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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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Ways of defining Modernism (P. Childs: Modernism, D. Harvey: "Modernity and Modernism"). Joseph Conrad: Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus - reality, representation. Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness - Impressionism, narrative technique. Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness - Atavism, Colonialism. Virginia Woolf: "Modern Fiction" - Modernists and Realists. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway - everydayness, plotlessness, stream of consciousness. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway - time, the past, H. Bergson. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway - isolation, WWI. D.H. Lawrence: "Why the Novel Matters" - introduction into Lawrence's poetics. D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover - loneliness, post-war exhaustion. D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover - regeneration, body and soul, Freud. James Joyce: Dubliners - time, epiphany, loneliness.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Participation in classes
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation of a presentation (report) in a foreign language
- 16 hours per semester
- Preparation for a credit (assessment)
- 26 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 50 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course is designed for students with a specific interest in British modernism of the first half of the Twentieth century. Four essential prose works are introduced and analyzed in the context of sociopolitical developments, dynamic cultural atmosphere and scientific progress of the period, whose co-play ranks it among the most remarkable literary chapters in recent art history. The central aim of the detailed close-reading seminars is to focus on the thematic, formal and stylistic attributes of works by Joseph Conrad, V. Woolf, D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, who engaged in traditional and experimental and avant-garde techniques. The course advances not only the theoretical knowledge, but also students' skills of critical analysis of a literary text gained in previous courses (History of British literature, etc.). Students will improve their textual skills and literary-historical awareness in a specific area of British literature.
Students will acquire textual and analytical literary competence in specific literary areas.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Home assignment evaluation
Face-to-face learning: - Attendance (80%) - Active participation, preparation for each class - Presentation - Final interview assessing the ability to discuss Modernism in the social, historical as well as literary contexts. In case of remote learning: - online seminar in real time respecting the schedule in MS Teams - attendance (3 missed classes) - camera on, active participation, preparation for each class - presentation - final online interview assessing the ability to discuss Modernism in the social, historical as well as literary contexts.
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Recommended literature
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CARTER, Mia, and A.W. FRIEDMAN. Modernism and literature an introduction and reader. New York: Routledge, 2013.
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CONRAD, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981.
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Hilský, Martin. Modernisté : Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Praha: Torst, 1995. ISBN 80-85639-40-8.
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Childs, Peter. Modernism. New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-41544-6.
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JOYCE, James. Dubliners (selection from). London: David Campbell, 1991.
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LAWRENCE, David Herbert. Lady Chatterley's Lover. New York: New American Library, 1962.
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SCHWARZ, D.R. Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. ISBN 0631226222.
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STEVENSON, R. Modernist Fiction: An Introduction. Longman, 1997. ISBN 013837659X.
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WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway [1925]. London: David Campbell, 1993.
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