British Literature II - ORA201051

• Title: Britská literatura II
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2009
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 0
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:5/4, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: combined
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.

Annotation

The aim of this course is to introduce students to some major works of the twentieth century British literature. 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. (25.10.2019)

Literature

Primary sources:

Extracts will be selected from:

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

James Joyce: Dubliners – “Eveline”, A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

T.S Eliot: The Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men

Ezra Pound: In a Station of the Metro

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

George Orwell: 1984

Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

William Golding: Lord of the Flies

Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day

Ian McEwan: Atonement

Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband

G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

 

Secondary Sources:

Coote, S. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London : Penguin Books, 1993.

English, F. J. Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Head, D. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 

Hilský, M. Modernisté. Praha: Torst, 1995.

Rogers, P. ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2004.

Carter, R., Mcrae, J. The Routledge History of English Literature, London – New York, Routledge, 2006 (2001).

Coote, S. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London : Penguin Books, 1993.

Forsythe, V. L. Lectures in English Literature to 1750. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 2008.

Head, D. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 

Oliveriusová, E., Grmela, J., Hilský, M., Marek, J. (1988) Dějiny anglické literatury. Praha, SPN.

Rogers, P. ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2004.

Stříbrný, Z. (1987) Dějiny anglické literatury, vol. II. Praha, Academia.

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

Syllabus

1. General Introduction of the Course, Requirements
2. Depiction of Victorian society in the 19^th century British literature
3. Modernism in British literature
4. British literature of the 1930s and 1940s
5. English literature of the 1950s and 60s
6. The development of 19^th and 20^th century British drama
7. Features of postmodernist literature

Last update: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)