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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: Folklore. Texts: riddles, charms. Old English Literature: Heroic epic and elegies. Texts: Beowulf, Wife's Lament. Early Medieval Poetry and Prose. Texts: Arthurian legends. Late Medieval Poetry and Prose. Texts: G. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales. Early Renaissance Poetry and Prose. Texts: T. More, T. Wyatt, H. Howard. Elizabethan Poetry and Prose. Texts: P. Sidney, W. Shakespeare, Sir W. Raleigh. Medieval and Early Renaissance Drama. Texts: C. Marlowe. Shakespeare and Drama until the Civil War. Texts: W. Shakespeare. Poetry and Prose 1600 - 1660. Texts: F. Bacon, B. Jonson, J. Donne, G. Herbert, R. Herrick, J. Milton. Restoration Literature and Classicism. Texts: J. Dryden, A. Pope, S. Johnson. Beginnings of the Novel. Texts: J. Addison, R. Steele, D. Defoe, J. Swift, H. Fielding. Sentimentalism and Pre-Romanticism. Texts: S. Richardson, L. Sterne, E. Young, T. Gray.
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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)
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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 BRLI2). 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
KAA/ULIA
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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 (40%) - Final written test/pair interview (ability to discuss 4 assigned primary texts [for details see "study materials" file "course_concept.doc"] + theoretical knowledge, 60%)
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Recommended literature
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ABRAMS, M.H. (Ed.). The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume. I. 6th ed.. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1993. ISBN 0-393-96288-1.
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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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STŘÍBRNÝ, Z. Dějiny anglické literatury, Díl 1.. Praha : Academia, 1987. ISBN 21-030-87/01.
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