British Literature of the 20th Century - OEB2301012

• Title: British Literature of the 20th Century
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2016 to 2016
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: GRMELOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.01.2012)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the cultural plurality of British literature of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as to develop the ability to analyze, interpret and evaluate texts. The chief focus will be put on major watersheds of 20th century British literature, esp. on the dynamic development of the novel.

Czech

Last update: GRMELOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.01.2012)

Cílem kurzu je seznámení s kulturní pluralitou britské literatury 20. a začátku 21.století a rozvíjení schopností texty analyzovat a interpretovat. Kurz se soustřeďuje na hlavní mezníky vývoje britské literatury 20. století, se zvláštním důrazem na dynamický vývoj románu.

Literature

Last update: SVOBODAP/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (21.09.2010)

Doporučená literatura:

HILSKÝ, M. Modernisté. Praha: Torst, 1995.

LODGE, D. Consciousness and the Novel: Collected Essays. Harvard University Press, 2004.

ENGLISH F. J. Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Syllabus

English

Last update: GRMELOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.01.2012)

Content: This is the third and final semester of the English Literature core course. It focuses on the major developments of 20^th century fiction and poetry although, where relevant, drama is also mentioned.  
While the series of lectures will provide a general social and cultural context for the variety of rapid developments within these genres, the seminars will focus on individual works (listed below) encouraging students to develop critical close-reading techniques as well as to explore broader moral, philosophical and aesthetic issues. 
While the texts selected reflect the cultural plurality of 20^th century British literature, they at the same time "speak to each other" in a number of ways. In the close critical discussions students will be encouraged to discover some recurrent concerns within this diversity (of texts) as well as use their knowledge of previous developments within individual genres.

Texts:

Fiction - Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
- D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
- Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
- James Joyce - "Eveline"
- Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
- John Fowles - The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day-Ian McEwan- Atonement

Poetry - T. S. Eliot - "The Hollow Men"
- W. B. Yeats - "The Second Coming"
- W. H. Auden - "Musée des Beaux Arts"
- Philip Larkin - "Church Going"
- Seamus Heaney

Czech

Last update: GRMELOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (12.01.2012)

Tento  závěrečný kurz třisemestrového bloku anglické literatury se soustředí na hlavní tendence vývoje románu, poezie a dramatu 20. a 21. století. Přednášky  poskytnou obecný společenský a kulturní kontext, který byl podnětem pro tak dynamický vývoj těchto žánrů. Cílem seminářů bude analytické čtení přiložených textů v kontextu širší filozofické a estetické problematiky. Vybrané texty na jedné straně reflektují pluralitu britské literatury 20. stol., ale současně mezi nimi probíhá kulturní a filosofický dialog.

Texts:

Fiction - Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
- D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
- Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
- James Joyce - "Eveline"
- Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
- John Fowles - The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day

-Ian McEwan- Atonement

Poetry - T. S. Eliot - "The Hollow Men"
- W. B. Yeats - "The Second Coming"
- W. H. Auden - "Musée des Beaux Arts"
- Philip Larkin - "Church Going"
- Seamus Heaney-"Punishment