Reading Milton - ATAPVP001

• Title: Reading Milton
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Translation Studies (21-UTRL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

Reading Milton: Subtleties and Anxieties in Paradise Lost

This is a close-reading course, taught in English - a joint class for BA and MA students of Translation Studies and the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, and for Erasmus students. It aims to illuminate Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost and show how innovative Milton is in his use of language and poetic form, as well as in his treatment of the simple Genesis story. We shall analyse selected passages and discuss the textual subtleties and anxieties that the text raises, particularly as they relate to Satan, the presentation of God, and Adam and Eve’s union and sexuality.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

This close-reading course aims to illuminate Milton’s Paradise Lost and show how innovative Milton is in his use of language and poetic form, as well as in his treatment of the simple Genesis story. We shall analyse selected passages and discuss the textual subtleties and anxieties that the text raises, particularly as they relate to Satan, the presentation of God, and Adam and Eve’s union and sexuality.

The course is primarily intended for MA students and 3rd-year BA students of both The Department of Translation Studies and the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, but it is open to anyone who wishes to discover how intricate Milton’s poem is and learn about the greatest epic poet in the English language – a controversial figure whose example and ideas have not ceased to inspire poets, writers and thinkers more than three hundred years after his death.

Descriptors

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

A joint course for students of Translation Studies and English-Department students, held at the Institute of Translation Studies in

Hybernská Street.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

Students will be required to read about 500-700 lines per week before they attend the class  and participate actively in seminar discussions.

3 credits (all students of Translation Studies, English Department BA students): regular attendance (3 absences are tolerated), active participation (50%) and required readings (50%).

5 credits (English Department MA students): regular attendance (3 absences are tolerated), active participation (50%) and required readings (50%), writen work: MA students of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures will be expected to hand in an essay of about 2,500-3,000 words on a Miltonic topic of their choice.

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

Primary literature:

 FOWLER, ALASTAIR, ed., John Milton: Paradise Lost. 2^nd ed. Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman Limited, 1998.

 HUGHES, MERRITT Y., ed., John Milton: Complete Poems and Major Prose. New York: Odyssey Press, 1957.

 LEONARD, JOHN, ed., John Milton: Paradise Lost. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2000.

 Thomas H. Luxon, The John Milton Reading Room (https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/contents/about_mrr.shtml).  

 

Secondary sources:

 

DANIELSON, DENNIS, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Milton. 2^nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

MCDOWELL, NICHOLAS and NIGEL SMITH (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Milton. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009.

LEONARD, JOHN. The Value of Milton. Cambridge, 2016.

KEAN, MARGARET (ed.), John Milton’s Paradise Lost: A Sourcebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

NOAM REISNER. John Milton’s Paradise Lost: A Reading Guide. Reading Guides to Long Poems. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.  

SCHWARTZ, Louis (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2014.

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

A close-reading course, based on a detailed textual analysis and discussion of selected passages from Milton's Paradise Lost.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

Students will be required to read about 500-700 lines per week before they attend the class (!) and participate actively in seminar discussions.

 

Regular attendance (3 absences are tolerated), active participation (50%) and required readings (50%).

 

No written work is required.

Entry requirements

Last update: Mgr. Šárka Brotánková, D.Phil. (08.02.2024)

The course is primarily intended for MA students and 3rd-year BA students, but is open to all. No previous knowledge of Milton's poem, life and works is expected.