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Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)
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Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)
Coote, Stephen, The Penguin Short History of English Literature (Penguin Books 1993) Forsyth, V.L., Lectures in English Literature to 1750. (Praha: Pedagogická fakulta UK, 2008). 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) |
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Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)
Lectures: 1. Old and Middle English Poetry and Prose 2. Alliterative Revival, Geoffrey Chaucer 3. Renaissance Period – Background, Early and Mid- Renaissance, Elizabethan Period 4. Renaissance love poetry 5. English Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare 6. Late Renaissance – Ben Jonson, John Donne 7. Civil War – John Milton and Others 8. Restoration Period – Drama and Prose 9. Eighteenth Century – Introduction and Poetry 10. The Rise of the Novel 11. The Development of the Novel, Late Classicism 12. Pre-Romantic Poetry
Seminars: 1. Introduction 2. Beowulf 3. The Canterbury Tales (Prologue, Pardoner’s Tale) 4. The Sonnet (Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare) 5. Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (Marlowe, Ralegh, Donne) 6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 7. Hamlet 8. Religious Literature: The Dream of the Rood, Everyman, Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim’s Progress (extract) 9. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (extract) 10. 18th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract) 11. Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems) |
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Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)
The course is reading-based – preparation for and participation in weekly seminars are necessary; regular attendance (two absences allowed). Written test, the minimum requirement to pass = 70% |