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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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LAKS
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Title
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Literature and Cultural Studies
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Form of course completion
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State final examination
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Form of course completion
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State final examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
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Cred.
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Type of completion
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Oral
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Type of completion
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Oral
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Time requirements
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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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YES
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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 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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1 / -
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0 / -
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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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No
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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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 |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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None
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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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Part of state exam.
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Requirements on student
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Students will be asked to prove their theoretical knowledge of the history of British and American literature and its social and cultural context as well as their ability to analyze a given literary text. Student must bring his/her reading list for the exam.The exam is in English.
The reading list must contain at least 30 titles, include both English and American literature of different periods, only up to half of the titles may be works discussed during seminars. The list should not contain works of popular literature unless the student is ready to discuss popular literature theoretically; All three major genres (poetry, drama, fiction) must be included. The student is expected to be able to discuss any work from his/her list, to critically assess it, place in context, discuss its themes, style, etc.
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Content
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Part 1
A text will be provided for the student to apply the terminology and theory on:
1. Fiction, sub-genres of fiction
2. Plot, story, setting
3. Narrative situation, narrator, point of view
4. Poetry, poetic genres
5. Rhyme, stanza forms, basic metric feet
6. Figures of speech
7. Drama, dramatic unities, types of drama
part 2:
1. Old English Literature Anglo-Saxon culture, values, writing: heroic epic, Iyrical, religious, alliteration, kenning, chronicles.
2. Middle English Literature Cultural context, Normans, revival of English, alliterative revival, Arthurian legends, Chaucer, Langland, Wycliff, Le Morte d'Arthur.
3. 16-17th century poetry and prose; cultural context, reformation, humanism, T. More, sonnet, P. Sidney, E. Spenser, W. Raleigh.
4. Drama from its beginnings 17th century. Medieval tropes, guilds, cycles, pageants, secular and religious drama, Morality and miracle plays, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, types of plays, theatre companies, playwrights, C. Marlowe, B. Jonson, W. Shakespeare.
5. Classicism and Enlightenment. Satire, essay, Pope, The Tatler, Swift, Dr. Johnson, Defoe.
6. The Rise of the English Novel. Origins and early forms of the novel.
7. English Romanticism, Sentimentalism, Pre-Romanticism, Romanticism, Cultural context. W. Blake, R. Burns, W. Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, M. Shelley, gothic novel, H. Walpole, etc.
8. Victorian prose and poetry. Industrialism, imperialism, Darwinism, Aesthetism, critical realism, M. Arnold, R. Kipling, Bronte, G. Eliot, O. Wilde, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, etc.
9. Early 20th century British literature. WWI, Imagism, Modernism, War Poetry, Dystopian novel, T. Hardy, W. Owen, R. Brooke, E. Pound, T.S.Eliot, A. Huxley, W. Golding, G. Orwell, etc.
10. Post-I 945 British prose, poetry and drama. Welfare state, P. Larkin, A. Burgess, J. Osborne, K. Amis, Angry Young Men, Absurd theatre, etc.
11. Contemporary British writing. Regionalism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, T. Harrison, S. Heaney, B. Zephaniah, E. Bond, H. Pinter, T. Stoppard, female writers, M. Drabble, M. Spark, S. Hill, F. Weldon, S. Rushdie, McEwan, etc.
12. American colonial and 18th cent. Iiterature (puritan writing, captivity narratives, political writing, poetry).
13. 19th cent. American literature before the Civil War, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Transcendentalists, Stowe, slave narratives, etc.
14. American fiction and poetry of the 2nd half of the 19th cent. Twain, James, Whitman, Dickinson, etc.
15. American Naturalism, symbolism, regionalism.
16. American Modernism.
17. Other American pre-WWII literature, Steinbeck, Anderson, Thurber, Hart Crane, Frost, etc..
18. American drama. O'Neill, Williams, MilIer, Hansberry.
19. Post WW II American fiction authors, issues, tendencies. Beat generation. Postmodernism. Minimalism.
20. African-American literature, other minority writing.
Part 3:
Discusiion and analysis of an item from student´s reading list - the committee selects the work from the reading list student provides.
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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:
RULAND, R.; BRADBURY, M. Od puritanismu k postmodernismu. Praha. MF, 1997.
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Basic:
LAUTER, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature.. D.C. Heath Lexington, 1990.
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Recommended:
HILFER, T. American Fiction since 1940. Longman Group, 1992.
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Recommended:
LEE, B. American Fiction 1865 ? 1940.. Longman Group, 1994.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Part of the final state exam
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Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Assessment methods |
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