Contemporary British Novel - ON2301017

• Title: Současný britský román
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 1
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

This seminar is based on the teaching presentation of and the consequent discussion, analysis and interpretations of, selected works of contemporary British novelists, focused on theoretical and thematic points of departure which illustrate the plurality of contemporary fiction: e.g. post-nationalism, Millenium Angst or queer literature, metafiction, historiographic metafiction, parody and pastiche, intertextuality, genre mixture and others. The aim of the course is not onlz analysis and discussion of the selected novels, but their teaching presentation in the form of peer-teaching.

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

Czech

Tento seminář je založen na výukové prezentaci a následné diskusi, analýze a interpretaci vybraných děl současných Britských romanopisců, zaměřených na teoretické a tematické okruhy přibližující pluralitu současné tvorby: překonávání dichotomie realismus/experiment, pojetí tzv. post-nationalism, millenium Angst či queer literature, metafikce, historiografická metafikce, parodie a pastiš, intertextovost, míchání žánrů a jiné. Cílem je nejen rozbor a diskuse jednotlivých děl, ale také jejich výuková prezentace formou peer-teachingu.

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

Course completion requirements

Požadavky k zápočtu:

- pravidelná a aktivní účast na seminářích (max. 1 absence)

- výuková prezentace jednoho vybraného románu

Last update: Chalupský Petr, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (02.02.2017)

Literature

BRADFORD, R. The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

Head, D. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Lane, J.R. Contemporary British Fiction. Cambridge: Polity Press and Blackwell, 2003.

Leader, Z. ed. On Modern British Fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Mengham, R. ed. An Introduction to Contemporary Fiction. London: Polity and Blackwell, 1999.

Rennison, N. Contemporary British Novelists. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

Last update: JANCOVI/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (28.04.2009)

Syllabus

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

Ian McEwan: Black Dogs (1992), Amsterdam (1998), Saturday (2005), On Chesil Beach (2007), Solar (2010)

Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body (1992), Art and Lies (1994)

Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow (1991), House of Meetings (2007)

Peter Ackroyd: The House of Doctor Dee (1993), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994), The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008)

Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans (2000), Never Let Me Go (2005)

Graham Swift: Last Orders (1996), The Light of Day (2003), Tomorrow (2007)

Julian Barnes: England, England (1998), Arthur & George (2005), The Sense of an Ending (2011)

Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), Something to Tell You (2008)

Zadie Smith: White Teeth (2000), On Beauty (2005)

Angela Carter: Wise Children (1991)

Monica Ali: Brick Lane (2003)

Jim Crace: Arcadia (1992), Being Dead (1999), The Pesthouse (2007)

Will Self: How the Dead Live (2000), Dorian (2002)

John Banville: The Sea (2005)

Adam Thirlwell: Politics (2003)

Alan Hollinghurst: The Line of Beauty (2004)

Simon Mawer: The Glass Room (2009)

David Lodge: Deaf Sentence (2008)

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