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British Literature I - OCRA20AJ06
Title: Britská literatura I
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 0
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:5/5, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: combined
Teaching methods: combined
Guarantor: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.09.2020)
The aim of the course is to introduce students to some major works of English literature from its earliest beginnings to 17th century. Poetry and drama dominate with prose beginning to make its presence felt towards the end of the course. The course is taught through lectures and seminars; the lectures are prepared in order to offer a general social and cultural context for the course texts. The seminars should involve students in close reading and literary analysis of individual works.
Descriptors - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.09.2020)

Předmět se bude v době zákazu prezenční výuky vyučovat online formou - přes platformu Discord/MS Teams.

Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.09.2020)

Primary literature:

Beowulf - extracts

The Dream of the Rood

The Canterbury Tales – “The General Prologue”, “The Pardoner's Tale”

Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophel and Stella - extract

Edmund Spenser: Amoretti - extract

Christopher Marlowe: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

Walter Raleigh: “Nymph’s Reply (to Marlowe)”

William Shakespeare: Sonnets: 3, 18, 30, 60, 130, 138, 14

William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream (extracts), Hamlet (extracts)

John Donne: “Love's Alchemy”, “The Flea”, an extract from Holly Sonnets

 

Secondary literature:

Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.

Coote, S. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London : Penguin Books, 1993.

Forsythe, V. L. Lectures in English Literature to 1750. Prague: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 2008.

Oliveriusová, E., Grmela, J., Hilský, M., Marek, J. (1988) Dějiny anglické literatury. Praha, SPN.

Rogers, Pat (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Syllabus - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.09.2020)

1. Staroanglická poezie: Beowulf a Sen o kříži jako odraz doby

2. The Canterbury Tales coby Chaucerův příspěvek k rozvoji anglické literatury

3. Raná a pozdní renesanční poezie: Sonety, pastorální a metafyzická poezie

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (29.09.2020)

1. The course is reading-based – preparation for and, if possible, participation in seminars is necessary. The reading materials are to be found in the Moodle account: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5500

2. Credit Test – min. score: 70% - dates will be specified in the course of the semester. 2 sittings in total, 1 re-sitting available.

 
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