Facultative Literary Seminar - OEB2301941

• Title: Facultative Literary Seminar
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• 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: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.09.2014)

Course requirements: regular attendance, active participation, and production of an essay (1000 words). This course focuses on 20th century British fiction and drama from 1900 to the 1970s. The seminars are organized on the basis of analysis, understanding and evaluation of a selection of texts which are not included in the 20th century British Literature syllabus. The key authors are Shaw, Forster, Huxley, Orwell, Beckett, Kingsley Amis, Golding, Murdoch, Pinter, Lodge, Carter, Martin Amis, McEwan, Barnes, Ishiguro and Stoppard.

Czech

Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (15.09.2014)

Tento kurz se zaměřuje na britskou prózu a drama od počátku do 80. let 20.století. Semináře jsou organizovány na základě analýzy, pochopení a interpretace vybraných textů, které nejsou zahrnuty v sylabu kurzu Britská literatura 20.století. Klíčovými autory jsou G.B. Shaw, E.M. Forster, A. Huxley, G.Orwell, S. Beckett, K. Amis, W. Golding, I. Murdoch, H. Pinter, D. Lodge, A. Carter, M. Amis, I. McEwan, J. Barnes, A. Carter, K. Ishiguro či T. Stoppard.

Literature

Last update: SKALOVA/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (27.10.2010)

HILSKÝ, M. Současný britský román. H&H, FF UK, 1991.

BRADBURY, M. The Modern British Novel. London: Penguin Books, 1994.

HEAD, D. Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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

Syllabus

Last update: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (05.01.2012)

The syllabus of the course is based on the students' selection of 5 or 6 books from the following list:

1910s & 1920s

G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion

E.M. Forster: Howards End

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

 

1930s & 1940s

A. Huxley: Brave New World

E. Waugh: A Handful of Dust

C. Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

G. Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

1950s

S. Beckett: Waiting for Godot; Endgame

K. Amis: Lucky Jim

W. Golding: Lord of the Flies

G. Greene: The End of the Affair; The Quiet American

J. Osborne: Look Back in Anger

I. Murdoch: Under the Net

A. Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

 

1960s

J. Fowles: The Collector

A. Burgess: Nothing Like the Sun

H. Pinter: Homecoming

T. Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

 

1970s

D. Lodge: Changing Places

M. Amis: Success

I. McEwan: The Cement Garden

A. Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

 

1980s

G. Swift: Waterland

M. Amis: London Fields

J. Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

K. Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World

I. McEwan: The Child in Time

J. Barnes: A History of the World in 10¹/₂ Chapters