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.
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Kurz si klade za cíl podat stručný přehled anglické literatury a jejích nejvýznamnějších děl od jejích prvopočátků až do osmnáctého století za předpokladu aktivní účasti studentů na tomto procesu. Literatura tohoto období je představena jak skrze analýzu jednotlivých děl a popis chronologického vývoje, tak i společensko-kulturních a historických vlivů, které se na něm podílely.
Témata:
1. Stará a středoanglická poezie a próza, Beowulf - analýza vybraných částí
2. Návrat aliterace, Geoffrey Chaucer a Canteburské povídky - analýza vybraných částí
3. Anglická renesance a alžbětinské období, sonet a milostná poezie v podání Sidneyho, Spensera a Shakespeara
4. Anglické renesanční drama: William Shakespeare – Sen noci svatojánské, Hamlet – analýza vybraných částí
5. Pozdní renesance: pastorální a metafyzická poezie – analýza vybraných básní
6. Občanská válka – John Milton ostatní, Ztracený ráj - Paradise Lost - analýza vybraných částí, porovnání s Poutníkovou cestou
7. Restaurační období – drama a próza
8. Úvod do britské literatury 18. století
9. Zrod a vzestup románu; Jonathan Swift: Skromný návrh, Gulliverovy cesty – analýza vybraných částí
10. Vývoj románu, pozdní klasicismus - Robinson Crusoe, Tristram Shandy – analýza vybraných částí
11. Preromantická poezie - William Blake a Robert Burns – analýza vybraných básní
Descriptors - Czech
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samostudium literatury (10 hodin), práce se studijními materiály (25 hodin), seminární práce (5 hodin), příprava na zápočet (10 hodin), příprava na zkoušku a zkouška (25 hodin)
The Canterbury Tales – “The General Prologue” (excerpt), “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’sReply (to Marlowe)”
William Shakespeare: Sonnets: 3, 18, 130, 138
William Shakespeare:A Midsummer Night's Dream (extracts), Hamlet (extracts)
John Donne: “The Flea”
John Milton: Paradise Lost (extracts)
John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress (extracts)
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
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”,
ALEXANDER, Michael. A History of English Literature. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.
BURGESS, Anthony. English Literature: a Survey for Students. New ed. London: Longman, 1974. ISBN 0-582-55224-9.
COOTE, Stephen. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin, 1993. Penguin literary criticism. ISBN 0-14-012531-0.
FORSYTH, V.L. Lectures in English Literature. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze – Pedagogická fakulta, 2008. ISBN: 978-807290-356-6.
FORD, Boris. (ed.): The New Pelican Guide to English Literature 1-5. Revised edition. London: Penguin, 1990.
OUSBY, Ian. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c1993. ISBN 0-521-44086-6.
ROGERS, Pat. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-282728-6.
SANDERS, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-926338-8.
STŘÍBRNÝ, Zdeněk: Dějiny anglické literatury I-II. Praha: Academia, 1987. ISBN 21-030-87.
Requirements to the exam -
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The course is reading-based – preparation for and participation in weekly seminars are necessary; regular attendance (3 absences in total allowed). (The reading materials are to be found in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5978, key: chaucer)
· Mid-term essay - one 350-word-long MLA-style mid-term paper (citations are not included in the total amount of words) in an appropriate academic style, written adhering to MLA citation norm, max. amount of grammatical errors: 3, ZERO PLAGIARISM POLICY, you need to refer to all your sources. You can re-submit your essay once (after the teacher has corrected it).
Max. number of words: 400.
TOPIC ASSIGNEMENT: Topics will be specified by the teacher in the 2nd week of semester, the student chooses one essay topic from 3 options.
ESSAY FORM: Keep to the traditional formal structure: MLA style of citation, indent paragraphs, make no spaces in between paragraphs. Use Times New Roman type size 12, double-spaced. DO not use contractions or phrasal verbs in your academic essays. Do not use Wikipedia or Wikipedia clones or anonymous websites as the sources of your information. Note all your sources.
ESSAY SUBMISSION: Essays should be submitted on 31st March2022 at the latest. Your essay should be signed. You submit your essay via Moodle. Include your name in the file title.Include your name and email address in the heading of the essay.
ESSAY ASSESSMENT:
Language skills are part of the overall assessment (the essays may contain no more than 3 language errors, ZERO PLAGIARISM POLICY: all attempts at plagiarism mean IMMEDIATE DISQUALIFICATION OF THE ESSAY).
Your essay will be assessed according to the following criteria: USE OF ENGLISH (accuracy - absence of grammatical, lexical, stylistic mistakes), variety and richness of expression, LOGIC (relevant choice of subject matter and means of expression), STRUCTURE (structuring and proportioning of individual parts of your essay), ADAPTABILITY (correct use of the MLA Style, variety and treatment of sources, ability to paraphrase), and ORIGINALITY of your contribution.
Failing to submit the essay in time or to produce an essay, which does not adhere to the standards disqualifies the student from the rest of subject.
Credit test – min. score: 60 % for passing, max: 1 re-sitting (2 possible sittings in total).
Failing to pass the credit test disqualifies the student from the rest of subject.
Written exam – min. score: 70% for passing, max: 2 re-sittings (3 possible sittings in total, language and stylistic skills are part of the overall assessment)
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (20.04.2022)
- Pravidelná a aktivní účast na seminářích (max. 3 absence celkově za semestr)
- Odevzdání eseje (požadavky viz. anglická verze podmínek zakončení předmětu):
nenaplnění požadavků na eseje: pozdní odevzdání či nedostatečná úroveň studentovi znemožní plnit další požadavky na splnění předmětu, tedy zápočtového testu a zkoušky)
- Splnění zápočtového testu (min. 60 %, test má jeden řádný a jeden opravný termín): nenaplnění požadavků studentovi znemožní plnit další požadavky na splnění předmětu, tedy zkoušky
- Úspěšné složení písemné zkoušky (min. 70 %, do výsledného počtu bodů je započítána i jazyková a formulační úroveň projevu)
Syllabus -
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Sylabus:
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:
1. Introduction to the Course
2. Beowulf (extract)
3. The Canterbury Tales (“General Prologue” (excerpt), “Pardoner’s Tale”)
4. TheSonnet (Sidney, Spenser)
5. The Sonnet (Shakespeare)
6. Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (selected poems)
7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract)
8. Hamlet (extract)
9. Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim`s Progress (extract)
10. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
11. 18th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract)
12. Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems)
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (20.04.2022)
Sylabus:
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:
1. Introduction to the Course
2. Beowulf (extract)
3. The Canterbury Tales (“General Prologue” (excerpt), “Pardoner’s Tale”)
4. TheSonnet (Sidney, Spenser)
5. The Sonnet (Shakespeare)
6. Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (selected poems)
7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract)
8. Hamlet (extract)
9. Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim`s Progress (extract)
10. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
11. 18th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract)
12. Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems)
Course completion requirements -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (20.04.2022)
The course is reading-based – preparation for and participation in weekly seminars are necessary; regular attendance (3 absences in total allowed). (The reading materials are to be found in Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5978, key: chaucer)
Mid-term essay - one 350-word-long MLA-style mid-term paper (citations are not included in the total amount of words) in an appropriate academic style, written adhering to MLA citation norm, max. amount of grammatical errors: 3, ZERO PLAGIARISM POLICY, you need to refer to all your sources. You can re-submit your essay once (after the teacher has corrected it).
Max. number of words: 400.
TOPIC ASSIGNEMENT: Topics will be specified by the teacher in the 2nd week of semester, the student chooses one essay topic from 3 options.
ESSAY FORM: Keep to the traditional formal structure: MLA style of citation, indent paragraphs, make no spaces in between paragraphs. Use Times New Roman type size 12, double-spaced. DO not use contractions or phrasal verbs in your academic essays. Do not use Wikipedia or Wikipedia clones or anonymous websites as the sources of your information. Note all your sources.
ESSAY SUBMISSION: Essays should be submitted on 31st March2022 at the latest. Your essay should be signed. You submit your essay via Moodle. Include your name in the file title.Include your name and email address in the heading of the essay.
ESSAY ASSESSMENT:
Language skills are part of the overall assessment (the essays may contain no more than 3 language errors, ZERO PLAGIARISM POLICY: all attempts at plagiarism mean IMMEDIATE DISQUALIFICATION OF THE ESSAY).
Your essay will be assessed according to the following criteria: USE OF ENGLISH (accuracy - absence of grammatical, lexical, stylistic mistakes), variety and richness of expression, LOGIC (relevant choice of subject matter and means of expression), STRUCTURE (structuring and proportioning of individual parts of your essay), ADAPTABILITY (correct use of the MLA Style, variety and treatment of sources, ability to paraphrase), and ORIGINALITY of your contribution.
Failing to submit the essay in time or to produce an essay, which does not adhere to the standards disqualifies the student from the rest of subject.
Credit test – min. score: 60 % for passing, max: 1 re-sitting (2 possible sittings in total).
Failing to pass the credit test disqualifies the student from the rest of subject.
Written exam – min. score: 70% for passing, max: 2 re-sittings (3 possible sittings in total, language and stylistic skills are part of the overall assessment)
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (20.04.2022)
- Pravidelná a aktivní účast na seminářích (max. 3 absence celkově za semestr)
- Odevzdání eseje (požadavky viz. anglická verze podmínek zakončení předmětu): nenaplnění požadavků na eseje: pozdní odevzdání či nedostatečná úroveň studentovi znemožní plnit další požadavky na splnění předmětu, tedy zápočtového testu a zkoušky
- Splnění zápočtového testu (min. 60 %, test má jeden řádný a jeden opravný termín): nenaplnění požadavků studentovi znemožní plnit další požadavky na splnění předmětu, tedy zkoušky
- Úspěšné složení písemné zkoušky (min. 70 %, do výsledného počtu bodů je započítána i jazyková a formulační úroveň projevu)
