Course: British Literature II

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Course title British Literature II
Course code KAA/BRLI2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Vít Ladislav, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Romanticism: The Lake Poets. Texts: S.T. Coleridge, W. Wordsworth. Romanticism: The Second Generation, Prose. Texts: G.G. Byron, P.B. Shelley, J. Keats. Victorian Poetry. Texts: A. Tennyson, R. Browning, E. Browning, M. Arnold. Victorian Prose. Texts: E. Bronte, C. Dickens, W.M. Thackeray, G. Eliot, T. Hardy. Late Victorian Poetry. Texts: D.G. Rossetti, A. Swinburne, W. Pater, G.M. Hopkins. Victorian and Edwardian Drama. Texts: O. Wilde, G.B. Shaw. Prose at the Turn of the Century. Texts: R. Kipling, H.G. Wells, J. Conrad, E.M. Forster. Modernism in Poetry and Prose. Texts: E. Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, J. Joyce, V. Woolf, D.H. Lawrence. Poetry, Novel, Drama: 1930s - 1950s. Texts: W.H. Auden, D. Thomas, A. Huxley, G. Orwell, G. Greene, N. Coward, C. Fry. Poetry, Novel, Drama: 1950s - 1970s. Texts: P. Larkin, T. Hughes, S. Plath, W. Golding, I. Murdoch, K. Amis, A. Burgess, S. Beckett, J. Osborne, H. Pinter. Contemporary Poetry and Drama. Texts: G. Hill, T. Harrison, S. Heaney, T. Stoppard, E. Bond. Contemporary Novel. Texts: M. Bradbury, D. Lodge, J. Fowles, J. Barnes, I. McEwan, G. Swift, K. Ishiguro.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The course is a continuation of British literature I (BRLI1). Therefore, it focuses on the period of British literature from the end of the 18th century until present. The aim of the course is to provide, in chronological order, overview of and introduction to main authors, their works, and specificities of individual periods, trends, and their overlap; all in a broader context of political and cultural background. A special emphasis is placed on the more recent works of the 20th century. Seminars complement the lectures in that they encourage application of theoretical knowledge on primary representative texts.
Students will acquire socio-cultural, textual and analytical kompetence in literary areas. They will be able to work approach materials critically in a context extending beyond the boundaries of literature, which is a necessary prerequisite for their further independent work.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KAA/BRLI1

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination

Attendance (3 missed classes max.) Active participation Reading list of 5 items of British Literature - 1 poetry collection, 2 novels/short story collections, 2 plays - for the exam Final oral examination covering the range and scope of Paul Poplawski: English Literature in Context (compulsory textbook)
Recommended literature
  • ABRAMS, M.H. (Ed.). The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume. I. 6th ed.. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 1993. ISBN 0-393-96289-X.
  • Alexander, Michael. A history of English literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. ISBN 0-333-67226-7.
  • Poplawski, Paul. English literature in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-54928-8.
  • PROCHÁZKA, M. et al. Slovník spisovatel?: Anglická literatura .. waleská literatura. Praha, Libri, 1996. ISBN 80-85983-04-4.
  • SANDERS, A. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. 3rd ed.. Oxford : OUP, 2004. ISBN 019-926338-8.
  • STŘÍBRNÝ, Z. Dějiny anglické literatury, Díl 2.. Praha : Academia, 1987. ISBN 21-030-87.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): English for Education (2013) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Study plan (Version): English for Education (2013) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter