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
• Teaching methods: combined
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

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.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Cílem předmětu je představit studentům zásadní díla anglické literatury od konce 19. století až do dneška v jejich širším kulturním, historickém a sociálním kontextu. Kurz je vyučován formou seminářů, přednášek a samostudia.

Literature

English

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

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.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Primární zdroje:

Úryvky jsou vybrány z následujících děl:

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

Sekundární zdroje:

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.

Requirements to the exam

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

 The course is completed by an oral examination.

Candidates also present their reading list which is an integral part of the exam. It should feature at least one work for each topic, this list (signed) is either handed or sent via email to the teacher at least twenty-four hours prior to the exam. The student will pick a topic and prepare a 15-minute long presentation based on it. His or her inability to prepare an adequate presentation and answer the questions related to it will lead to hos or her failing of the exam. The list of all exam quastions is to be found in Moodle and to be received by the students at the beginning of the semester.

The level and adequate use of candidate’s English makes part of the final assessment.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Kurz je zakončen ústní zkouškou - její úspěšné zvládnutí je podmínkou absolvování kurzu.

Do výsledné známky se promítá nejen schopnost jednotlivých uchazečů vyložit studovanou látku, ale rovněž i jejich jazyková úroveň.

Syllabus

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

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

Learning resources

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

The course in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5495