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Contemporary literatures in English - OPNA1A126B
Title: Současné světové literatury v angličtině
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 / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not 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: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (12.05.2019)
The aim of the course is to familiarise the students with the development and contemporary standing of significant world literatures written in English. The course is taught by means of seminars, whose main focus is analysis of seminal works of contemporary Irish, Canadian, Australian and Scottish literary production on the background of the cultures, from which they have sprung, and from the perspective of postcolonial and poststructuralist theories.
Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

Enright, Anne. The Gathering. London: Black Cat, 2007. ISBN: 978-1615553372

Tóibín, Colm. Brooklyn. London: Sribner, 2015. ISBN: 978-1501106477

O’Brien, George. The Irish Novel: 1960-2010. Cork: Cork University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-185918-495-0.

 

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Blind Assassin: [a novel]. London: Virago Press, 2001. ISBN 1-86049-879-5.

Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. London: Canongate Books, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84767-602-3.

HOWELLS, Coral Ann a Eva-Marie KRÖLLER. The Cambridge history of Canadian literature. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-86876-1.

 

Flanagan. Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. A novel. London: Vintage, 2013. ISBN978-1-101-91167-9.

HUGGAN, Graham. Australian literature: postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 978-0199274628.

 

Smith, Ali. The Accidental. London: Penguin Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-101039-7.

GARDINER, Michael, Graeme MACDONALD a Niall O'GALLAGHER. Scottish literature and postcolonial literature: comparative texts and critical perspectives. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. ISBN:  978-0748637744.

 

McLeod, J. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester University Press, 2000. ISBN: 978-0719078583

Syllabus
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (05.05.2019)

1. -2. Contemporary Irish Literature

3. - 4.Contemporary Canadian Literature

5. -6. Contemporary Australian Literature

7.-8. Contemporary Scottish Literature

9. -10. Contemporary Literary Theory.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

1. active participation on seminars - max. 2 absences

2. essay, see syllabus for the formal and content-related stipulations

 
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