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KAA / MBLMO
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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MBLMO
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Modernism in British Literature
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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-
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Type of completion
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-
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Time requirements
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Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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NO
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 15
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0 / 5
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0 / 0
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / 20
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0 / 1
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0 / 0
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KAA/BLMO
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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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.
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Requirements on student
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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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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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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
JOYCE, James. Dubliners (selection from). London : David Campbell, 1991.
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Basic:
LAWRENCE, David Herbert. Lady Chatterley's Lover. New York: New American Library, 1962.
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Basic:
'Modern Fiction' [1921]
(WOOLF, Virginia)
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Basic:
Childs, Peter. Modernism. New York : Routledge, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-41544-6.
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Basic:
Hilský, Martin. Modernisté : Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Praha: Torst, 1995. ISBN 80-85639-40-8.
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Basic:
'Modernity and Modernism.' In The Condition of Postmodernity: An enquiry into the origins of cultural change
(HARVEY, David)
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Basic:
WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway [1925]. London : David Campbell, 1993.
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Basic:
Preface to The Nigger of Narcissus [1897]
(CONRAD, Joseph)
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Basic:
CONRAD, Joseph. The Heart of Darkness. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981.
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Basic:
'Why the Novel Matters' in Phoenix: the posthumous papers of D. H. Lawrence
(LAWRENCE, David Herbert)
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Recommended:
CARTER, Mia, and A.W. FRIEDMAN. Modernism and literature an introduction and reader. New York: Routledge, 2013.
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Recommended:
STEVENSON, R. Modernist Fiction: An Introduction. Longman, 1997. ISBN 013837659X.
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Recommended:
SCHWARZ, D.R. Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel. Oxford : Blackwell, 2005. ISBN 0631226222.
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Účast na výuce
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26
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Domácí příprava na výuku
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50
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Příprava na zápočet
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26
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Příprava prezentace (referátu) v cizím jazyce
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16
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Total
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118
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will acquire textual and analytical literary competence in specific literary areas. |
Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Assessment methods |
- Home assignment evaluation
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