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Modern Literature Seminar 2 - KLIT012

Title:	Modern Literature Seminar 2
Guaranteed by:	Department of Ecclesiastical History and Literary History (26-KCD)
Faculty:	Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual:	from 2025
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	you can enroll for the course repeatedly course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Is interchangeable with:	KLIT039

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Annotation

Motto: „Reading literature is an integral aspect of understanding the world around us.“
The structure of the course follows Androulaki´s and Whitted´s „English A: Literature“ (Oxford, 2019), chief themes being 1) the tools we use to support our reading and understading of literary texts, 2) using these tools on chosen works of Modern Literature poetry and prose fiction.

Last update: Kudlová Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.12.2020)

Aim of the course -

The aim of the two-semester course is to help students start reading and discussing literature in English.

Last update: Kudlová Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.12.2020)

Course completion requirements -

The aim of the seminar is to help students read literature in English and discuss it in English. In order to obtain the credit, regular attendance, participation in discussions and willingness to start reading or willingness to read in English are necessary.

Last update: Kudlová Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.12.2020)

Literature -

Textbook /will be provided by the teacher/:

Anna Androulaki, Brent Whitted, English A: Literature, Oxford University Press 2019.

Recommended literature /all texts will be provided by the teacher and discussed in the course/:

Skripta:

Anna Androulaki, Brent Whitted, English A: Literature, Oxford University Press 2019.

Doporučená literatura:

Clive Staples Lewi: Out of the Silent Planet. 1938.

Salman Rushdie: Midnight´s Children. 1982.

Shani Mootoo: Cereus Blooms at Night. 1999.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah. 2014.

Percival L. Everett: Erasure: a Novel 2006.

Alice Munro: Home: A Story. 2006.

Zadie Smith: On Beauty: A Novel. 2005.

Robert Eagelstone: Contemporary fiction: a very short introduction 2013.

Peter Boxall: The value of the novel. 2015.

Roger Luckhurst: Literature and the contemporary fictions and theories of the present. 1999.

Christopher Butler: Postmodernism: a very short introduction 2002.

Last update: Kudlová Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.02.2023)

Teaching methods

Lecturing supported by PPT presentation, materials in Microsoft Teams course, part of the meeting always dedicated to joint reading of the text. At least once during the semester complemented by a visit to current theatrical productions related to the syllabus.

Last update: Kudlová Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.10.2022)

Syllabus -

1. George Orwell

2. Bill Bryson

3. Pico Iyer

4. Rebecca Solnit

5. Joe Sacco

6. Anna Akhmatova

7. Maria Wislawa Szymborska

8. Paul Simon

9. Ted Hughes

10. William Carlos Williams

11. Emily Bronte

12. Maryse Condé

Last update: Kudlová Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (10.12.2020)

Entry requirements

Entry requirements: advanced knowledge of English, enabling fluent reading of modern texts and discussion.

Last update: Kudlová Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.10.2022)