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Winter Term 2026
Wednesday 15:50-17:20, Room P129 Instructor: Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, PhD. The course will acquaint the students with the rich tradition of the ghost story in the British Isles, from the emergence of the genre through its golden age to the later developments, including weird fiction. The syllabus includes works by the most renowned writers associated chiefly with the genre (M. R. James, V. Paget, J. Buchan, F. E. Benson, A. Machen), but also less-known ventures into the realm of the ghost story by canonical authors known primarily for their works in other forms (Ch. Dickens, E. Gaskell, V. Woolf, E. M. Forster). Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=20417 Poslední úprava: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (07.10.2026)
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Poslední úprava: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.09.2026)
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7 October Course overview & Introduction (history of the genre, folklore, Walter Scott) 14 October Introducing MR James & film screening MR James: Ghost Writer by Mark Gatiss 21 October: Household Ghosts Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Elisabeth Gaskell 28 October No class, state holiday 4 November: Fearsome Colonies Rudyard Kipling, B. M. Croker, Algernon Blackwood 11 November: Scary Scotland Margaret Oliphant, R. L. Stevenson, John Buchan 18 November No class (reading week & Humanities Week) 25 November Guest Class by Mgr. Daniela Málková: W. Collins, E. M. Braddon, A. B. Edwards 2 December: Eerie Ireland & Wales Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen 9 December: Into the Weird Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), E. F. Benson, William Hope Hodgson 16 December: A Ghost Story for Christmas M. R. James II & film screening (BBC Ghost Story for Christmas) 6 January: Spooky Modernism & Beyond Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence Poslední úprava: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (06.10.2026)
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