Older English Literature - OEBAA1742Z

• Title: Older English Literature
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (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: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
• Class: Předměty v angličtině - bc.

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

The aim of this course is to introduce students to some major works of English literature from its earliest beginnings to the second half of the eighteenth century. The lectures are designed to offer a general historical, social and cultural context for the course texts. The seminars will deal with reading and analysis of the individual selected works.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Cílem kurzu je seznámit studenty s hlavními díly anglické literatury od jejích raných počátků až do 2.poloviny 18.století. Přednášky jsou strukturovány tak, aby poskytly obecný historický, společenský a kulturní kontext doby, ve které byla jednotlivá díla napsána, semináře se zaměřují na jejich čtení a analýzu.

Descriptors

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (28.01.2021)

The course will be taught via MS Teams (seminars) and Zoom (lecture).

Further information and course materials are to be found in Moodle: 

https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5978.

Literature

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5978

Primární zdroje (k nalezení v Moodlu):

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”

John Milton: Paradise Lost (extracts)

John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress (extracts)

Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (extract)

David Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (extract)

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy (extract)

William Blake: Songs of Innocence + Songs of Experience (extracts)

Robert Burns: “To a Mouse”, “A Red, Red Rose”, “Auld Lang Syne”

Vybrané sekundární zdroje:

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

Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Burgess, Anthony. English Literature: A Survey for Students. New ed. London: Longman, 1974.

Childs, Peter. Reading Fiction. Opening the Text. Palgrave, 2001.

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

Rogers, Pat. Ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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

Syllabus

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (04.02.2020)

Lectures:  

1. Old and Middle English Poetry and Prose

2. Alliterative Revival, Geoffrey Chaucer         

3. Renaissance Period – Background, Elizabethan Period, Renaissance love poetry

4. English Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare

5. Late Renaissance – Ben Jonson, John Donne

6. Civil War – John Milton and Others

7. Restoration Period – Drama and Prose

8. Eighteenth Century – Introduction and Poetry

9. The Rise of the Novel

10. The Development of the Novel, Late Classicism

11. Pre-Romantic Poetry

 

Seminars:

25/02 Introduction to the Course

03/03 Beowulf

10/3 The Canterbury Tales (“General Prologue”, “Pardoner’s Tale”)

17/03 The Sonnet (Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare)

24/03 Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (Marlowe, Raleigh, Donne)

31/03 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

07/04 Hamlet

14/04 Religious Literature: “The Dream of the Rood”, Everyman  

21/04 Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim’s Progress (extract)

28/04 Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (extract)

05/05 18^th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract)

12/05 Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems)

Course completion requirements

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (01.02.2021)

The course is reading-based – preparation for and active participation in weekly seminars are necessary; regular attendance (three absences in total allowed).

Credit Test – min. score: 70%, max: 2 re-sittings (3 possible sittings in total).

The content of this course will be assessed again later in both oral and written exams.

Language skills are part of the overall assessment.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (01.02.2021)

Požadavky k zápočtu:

Kurz je založen na samostatné četbě  a aktivní a pravidelné účasti studentů na seminářích.

Povoleny jsou maximálně tři absence celkově.

Dalším požadavkem je úspěšné splnění zápočtového testu: minimum pro splnění = 70 procent z celkového počtu bodů, test je možné opakovat maximálně  dvakrát!

Součástí hodnocení je i jazyková a formulační úroveň.