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Selected Chapters from English and American Literature I - OENAA1730Z
Title: Selected Chapters from English and American Literature I
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2021
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not 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 - mgr.
Classification: Teaching > English
Annotation -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)
The aim of this course is to consolidate and deepen the students’ existing knowledge of English and British literature through complex and cross-section themes and exploring this knowledge in wider historical, social and cultural contexts. The course is conceived as class discussions and students’ presentations based on preceding independent preparation and reading.
Literature -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)

Bradbury, Malcolm, The Modern British Novel (Penguin Books 1994)

Coote, Stephen, The Penguin Short History of English Literature (Penguin Books 1993)

English, James F., (ed.), Contemporary British Fiction (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing 2006)

Head, Dominic, Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 (Cambridge University Press 2002)

Hilský, Martin, Modernisté (Praha: Torst 1995)

Lane, R.J., Mengham, R., Tew, P., (eds.) Contemporary British Fiction (Cambridge: Polity Press 2003)

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)

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)

Regular attendence and active participation in seminars.

Short presentations on given themes.

Syllabus -
Last update: Kateřina Esserová, DiS. (24.09.2019)

1. English literature and religion

2. Climaxes of English drama

3. Metamorphoses of English poetic sensibility

4. Major developments in the 18th and 19th century English novel

5. English Romanticism

6. British Modernism

7. British literature from the 1930s to 1960s

8. Postmodernism in British literature

9. Metamorphoses of humour in English literature

 
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