Předměty

Cílem předmětu je představit studentům zásadní díla anglické literatury od 18. století po konec 19. století. Kurz je vyučován formou seminářů, přednášek a samostudia.

Poslední úprava: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

The aim of this course is to introduce students to some major works of English literature from the early eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth 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.

Poslední úprava: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

1. The course is reading-based – preparation for and, if possible, participation in seminars is necessary. The reading materials are to be found in the Moodle account: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5500

2. Credit Test – min. score: 70% - dates will be specified in the course of the semester

Poslední úprava: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (12.05.2019)

Primary sources:

- selected poems by Robert Burns, William Blake, G. Byron, P.B. Shelley and John Keats

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma

Charlotte Brönte: Jane Eyre

Anne Brönte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Emily Brönte: Wuthering Heights

W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair: A novel without a Hero

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Secondary Sources:

Burgess, A. English Literature. A Survey for Students. Longman, 1985.

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.

Poslední úprava: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

2. Credit Test – min. score: 70% - dates will be specified in the course of the semester

Poslední úprava: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

1. The Rise of the Novel

2. The Development of the Novel

3. Pre-Romantic Poetry

4. Romantic poetry

5. Fiction of the Romantic period

6. Victorianism

7. Victorian novel

8. Victorian poetry

9. Late Victorian literature

10. Literature at the turn of the century

Poslední úprava: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

The course in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5500

Poslední úprava: Topolovská Tereza, PhDr., Ph.D. (05.05.2019)