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The aim of this course is to introduce students to some major works of English literature from its earliest beginnings to the second half of the eighteenth century. The lectures are designed to offer a general historical, social and cultural context for the course texts. The seminars will deal with reading and analysis of the individual selected works.
Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (01.02.2020)
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The course is reading-based – preparation for and active participation in weekly seminars are necessary; regular attendance (three absences in total allowed). Credit Test – min. score: 70%, max: 2 re-sittings (3 possible sittings in total). The content of this course will be assessed again later in both oral and written exams. Language skills are part of the overall assessment. Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (01.02.2021)
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Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5978 Primary sources (to be found in Moodle): Beowulf - extracts The Dream of the Rood The Canterbury Tales – “The General Prologue”, “The Pardoner’s Tale” Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophel and Stella - extract Edmund Spenser: Amoretti - extract Christopher Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Walter Raleigh: “Nymph’s Reply (to Marlowe)” William Shakespeare: Sonnets: 3, 18, 30, 60, 130, 138, 14 William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (extracts), Hamlet (extracts) John Donne: “Love’s Alchemy”, “The Flea” John Milton: Paradise Lost (extracts) John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress (extracts) Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (extract) David Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (extract) Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (extract) William Blake: Songs of Innocence + Songs of Experience (extracts) Robert Burns: “To a Mouse”, “A Red, Red Rose”, “Auld Lang Syne” Selected secondary sources: Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford University Press, 2004. Burgess, Anthony. English Literature: A Survey for Students. New ed. London: Longman, 1974. Childs, Peter. Reading Fiction. Opening the Text. Palgrave, 2001. Coote, Stephen. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin, 1993. Rogers, Pat. Ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (01.02.2020)
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Lectures: 1. Old and Middle English Poetry and Prose 2. Alliterative Revival, Geoffrey Chaucer 3. Renaissance Period – Background, Elizabethan Period, Renaissance love poetry 4. English Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare 5. Late Renaissance – Ben Jonson, John Donne 6. Civil War – John Milton and Others 7. Restoration Period – Drama and Prose 8. Eighteenth Century – Introduction and Poetry 9. The Rise of the Novel 10. The Development of the Novel, Late Classicism 11. Pre-Romantic Poetry
Seminars: 25/02 Introduction to the Course 03/03 Beowulf 10/3 The Canterbury Tales (“General Prologue”, “Pardoner’s Tale”) 17/03 The Sonnet (Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare) 24/03 Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (Marlowe, Raleigh, Donne) 31/03 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 07/04 Hamlet 14/04 Religious Literature: “The Dream of the Rood”, Everyman 21/04 Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim’s Progress (extract) 28/04 Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (extract) 05/05 18th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract) 12/05 Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems) Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (01.02.2020)
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