British Literature - ORA101012

• Title: Britská literatura
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 0
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:8/8, 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: combined
• Note: priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.

Annotation

The aim of this course is to introduce students to some major works of English literature from its earliest beginnings to the early 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: CHALUPSK/PEDF.CUNI.CZ (05.01.2012)

Literature

Rogers, Pat (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (Oxford University Press 1994)

Coote, Stephen, The Penguin Short History of English Literature (Penguin Books 1993)

Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature (Oxford University Press 2004)

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

Syllabus

1. Old and Middle English Poetry and Prose

2. Alliterative Revival, Geoffrey Chaucer             

3. Renaissance Period - Background              

4. Early and Mid- Renaissance, Elizabethan Period

5. Renaissance love poetry

6. English Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare

7. Late Renaissance - Ben Jonson, John Donne

8. Civil War - John Milton and Others

9. Restoration Period - Drama and Prose

10. Eighteenth Century - Introduction and Poetry

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