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KAA / BBRPO
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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BBRPO
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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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British Story
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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,
3
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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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 / 0
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0 / 22
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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 / -
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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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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer 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 |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KAA/BRPO
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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KAA/BJAC1
or KAA/BJAC2
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Meet all prerequisites before registering
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YES
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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:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The course aims to provide an overview of the changes and generic specificity of the short story in Britain since its appearance until the end of the 20th century. Using sample representative texts by British writers since the Victorian beginnings until the present day, seminar discussions and critical reading of the texts will yield students' awareness of this genre's formal and stylistic but also thematic specificity; all on the backcloth of social and historical contexts. The seminars will also introduce key concepts from narratology in order to enhance the discussions of the texts. Because of its specificity, the course is recommended for students after completing their BBRL2/BRLI2 course.
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Requirements on student
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- Attendance (maximum of 3 missed classes)
- Active participation and preparation of assigned texts before the seminars
- Presentation of an assigned project
- Oral interview
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Content
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Course content:
Defining the genre (E.A. Poe, Charles E. May, E. Hemingway).
Critical Realism and the Short Story; coherence, characterization, conflict. Text: J. Galsworthy.
Naturalism and the Short Story; plot, story, prolepsis, analepsis. Text: G. Gissing.
Exotic and Colonial Story - R.L. Stevenson, R. Kipling; setting, irony, third person narrator. Text: J. Conrad.
Detective, Horror and Mystery Story - J.S. Le Fanu, etc.; suspense, foreshadowing. Texts: H.G. Wells, W. De La Mare.
Early 20th century Short Story Experiments; symbol, epiphany, point of view. Text: J. Joyce.
D.H. Lawrence: themes, narrative technique, Freudianism. Text: D.H. Lawrence.
The 'Greeneland' of Graham Greene. Narrative technique, themes. Text: Graham Greene.
Postmodern Short Story; features and innovations, meta-fiction, intertextuality. Text: D. Lodge.
Postcolonial Short Story; issues, identity, assimilation, diaspora, otherness. Texts: R. Gunesekera, R. Tromans, A. Ladha.
Women Story-tellers and the Feminist Short Story; issues, styles, gender. Texts: F. Weldon, R. Tremain.
Short Story and Magic Realism; return to the origins of short story genre. Text: A. Carter.
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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:
BRADBURY, M. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories. London : Penguin Books Ltd, 1998. ISBN 0140063064.
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Basic:
MAY, C. E. The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice. London : Routledge, 2002.
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Recommended:
MAY, Charles. New Short Story Theories. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994.
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Recommended:
HUNTER, Adrian. The Cambridge Introduction to Short Story in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Recommended:
FLORA, J.M. The English Short Story 1880-1945: A Critical History. Boston, Mass. : Twayne, 1985.
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Recommended:
VANNATTA, D. The English Short Story, 1945-1980: A Critical History. Boston, Mass. : Twayne, 1985.
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Recommended:
OREL, H. The Victorian Short Story: Development and Triumph of a Literary Genre. Cambridge : CUP, 1986.
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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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30
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Příprava na zápočet
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20
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Příprava prezentace (referátu) v cizím jazyce
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8
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Total
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84
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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 a specific literary genre. Students will acquire insight into specific structural aspects of the genre: the seminars will employ close reading and aspects of narratology. The overall output is the cultivation of students' critical thought and their appreciation of literary work. |
Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
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Assessment methods |
- Student performance assessment
- Discussion
- Presentation
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