Facultative Literary Seminar - OPBA2A139B

• Title: Výběrový literární seminář
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter 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: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.01.2020)

Tento kurz se zaměřuje na britskou prózu a drama od počátku do 80. let 20.století. Semináře jsou organizovány na základě analýzy, pochopení a interpretace vybraných textů, které nejsou zahrnuty v sylabu kurzu Britská literatura 20.století. Klíčovými autory jsou G.B. Shaw, E.M. Forster, A. Huxley, G.Orwell, S. Beckett, K. Amis, W. Golding, I. Murdoch, H. Pinter, D. Lodge, A. Carter, M. Amis, T. Stoppard, J. Winterson, K. Ishiguro či J. Barnes.

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.01.2020)

HILSKÝ, M. Současný britský román. H&H, FF UK, 1991.

BRADBURY, M. The Modern British Novel. London: Penguin Books, 1994.

HEAD, D. Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

ENGLISH, F. J. Contemporary British Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006.

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (30.09.2020)

The syllabus of the course is based on the students' selection of 5 or 6 books from the following list:

1910s & 1920s

G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

 

1930s & 1940s

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

 

1950s

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot; Endgame

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

William Golding: Lord of the Flies

Graham Greene: The End of the Affair

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger

Iris Murdoch: Under the Net

Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

 

1960s

John Fowles: The Collector

Anthony Burgess: Nothing Like the Sun

Harold Pinter: Homecoming

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

B.S. Johnson: The Unfortunates

 

1970s

David Lodge: Changing Places

Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden

Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

 

1980s

Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World

Martin Amis: London Fields

Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10¹/₂ Chapters

 

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (02.09.2020)

Pravidelná a aktivní účast v seminářích (max. 2 absence), esej v rozsahu 1000 slov na vybrané téma dle probíraných textů.

Součástí hodnocení je i jazyková a formulační úroveň.