Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the cultural plurality of British literature of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as to develop the ability to analyze, interpret and evaluate texts. The chief focus will be put on major watersheds of 20th and 21st -century British literature, esp. on the dynamic development of the novel.
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
Cílem kurzu je seznámení s kulturní pluralitou britské literatury 20. a začátku 21.století a rozvíjení schopností texty analyzovat a interpretovat. Kurz se soustřeďuje na hlavní mezníky vývoje britské literatury 20. a 21. století, se zvláštním důrazem na dynamický vývoj románu.
Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
Primary literature:
Fiction:
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness D. H. Lawrence: The Virgin and the Gipsy Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway James Joyce: “Eveline”
Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin (extract) Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (extract) Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Andrea Levy: Small Island (extract)
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Drama
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Poetry W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” T. S. Eliot: “The Hollow Men”
W. H. Auden: “Musée des Beaux Arts” Philip Larkin: “Church Going” Seamus Heaney: “Punishment”
Craig Raine: “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”
Carol Anne Duffy: “Valentine”
Benjamin Zephaniah: “Dis Poetry”
Secondary Literature:
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. Penguin Book, 1994.
Coote, Stephen. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin, 1993.
English, James F., (ed.). Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Head, Dominic, Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Hilský, Martin, Modernisté. Praha, Torst, 1995.
Innes, Christopher, Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Lane, R.J., Mengham, R., Tew, P., (eds.) Contemporary British Fiction. Cambridge, Polity Press 2003.
Rogers, Pat (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
Primary literature:
Fiction:
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness D. H. Lawrence: The Virgin and the Gipsy Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway James Joyce: “Eveline”
Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin (extract) Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (extract) Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Andrea Levy: Small Island (extract)
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Drama
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Poetry W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” T. S. Eliot: “The Hollow Men”
W. H. Auden: “Musée des Beaux Arts” Philip Larkin: “Church Going” Seamus Heaney: “Punishment”
Craig Raine: “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”
Carol Anne Duffy: “Valentine”
Benjamin Zephaniah: “Dis Poetry”
Secondary Literature:
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. Penguin Book, 1994.
Coote, Stephen. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin, 1993.
English, James F., (ed.). Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
Head, Dominic, Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Hilský, Martin, Modernisté. Praha, Torst, 1995.
Innes, Christopher, Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Lane, R.J., Mengham, R., Tew, P., (eds.) Contemporary British Fiction. Cambridge, Polity Press 2003.
Rogers, Pat (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
The exam is oral and consists of answering two selected questions from the list the students receive in the course of the seminars with the list of compulsory literature. Preparation takes 30 minutes. In order to pass the exam, the student has to answer correctly both of the questions. If the student answers satisfactorily only one question, he or she fails the exam and has to take it again. Students should take the exam with the teacher whose seminar they attended.
Language skills are part of the overall assessment.
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
Zkouška je ústní a sestává se ze 2 vylosovaných okruhů. Se seznamem otázek budou studenti seznámení v průběhu kurzi Na přípravu má student 30 minut. Pro úspěšné zvládnutí zkoušky je třeba uspokojivě (tj. alespoň na hodnocení "dobře") zodpovědět obě otázky. V případě, že student nezodpoví alespoň jednu z vylosovaných otázek uspokojivě, je jeho výkon u zkoušky hodnocen jako "neprospěl(a)". Student si termín zkoušky zapíše u vyučujícího, ke kterému docházel do semináře či na přednášku. Integrální součástí hodnocení je i jazyková a formulační úroveň.
Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
Seminars:
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness D. H. Lawrence: The Virgin and the Gipsy Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway James Joyce: “Eveline”
Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin (extract) Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (extract) Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Andrea Levy: Small Island (extract)
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Drama
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Poetry W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” T. S. Eliot: “The Hollow Men”
W. H. Auden: “Musée des Beaux Arts” Philip Larkin: “Church Going” Seamus Heaney: “Punishment”
Craig Raine: “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”
Carol Anne Duffy: “Valentine”
Benjamin Zephaniah: “Dis Poetry”
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
Seminars:
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness D. H. Lawrence: The Virgin and the Gipsy Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway James Joyce: “Eveline”
Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin (extract) Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (extract) Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Andrea Levy: Small Island (extract)
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Drama
Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Poetry W. B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” T. S. Eliot: “The Hollow Men”
W. H. Auden: “Musée des Beaux Arts” Philip Larkin: “Church Going” Seamus Heaney: “Punishment”
Craig Raine: “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”
Carol Anne Duffy: “Valentine”
Benjamin Zephaniah: “Dis Poetry”
Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
- preparation for and active participation in the seminars, max. 3 absences
- successful passing of the oral exam
- language skills are part of the overall assessment.
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.01.2022)
- aktivní a pravidelná účast na seminářích (max. 3 absence)
- úspěšné složení ústní zkoušky
Součástí hodnocení je i jazyková a formulační úroveň.
