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.
Themes:
1. Aspects of Canadian Literature
2. Aspects of Canadian Literature: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Blind Assassin: [a novel].
3. Aspects of Australian Literature.
4. Aspects of Australian Literature: Flanagan. Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. A novel.
5. Aspects of Irish Literature.
6. Aspects of Irish Literature: Enright, Anne. The Gathering.
7. Aspects of Irish Literature: Tóibín, Colm. Brooklyn.
8. Aspects of Scottish Literature.
9. Aspects of Scottish Literature. Smith, Ali. The Accidental.
Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
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.
Themes:
1. Aspects of Canadian Literature
2. Aspects of Canadian Literature: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. The Blind Assassin: [a novel].
3. Aspects of Australian Literature.
4. Aspects of Australian Literature: Flanagan. Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. A novel.
5. Aspects of Irish Literature.
6. Aspects of Irish Literature: Enright, Anne. The Gathering.
7. Aspects of Irish Literature: Tóibín, Colm. Brooklyn.
8. Aspects of Scottish Literature.
9. Aspects of Scottish Literature. Smith, Ali. The Accidental.
Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
Literature -
O’Brien, George. The Irish Novel: 1960-2010. Cork: Cork University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-185918-495-0.
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.
HUGGAN, Graham. Australian literature: postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 978-0199274628.
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
Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
O’Brien, George. The Irish Novel: 1960-2010. Cork: Cork University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-185918-495-0.
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.
HUGGAN, Graham. Australian literature: postcolonialism, racism, transnationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 978-0199274628.
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
Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2020)
