Older English Literature - OIBA2A107A

• Title: Older English Literature
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 0
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C [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
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)

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.

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)

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

Forsyth, V.L., Lectures in English Literature to 1750. (Praha: Pedagogická fakulta UK, 2008).

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)

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)

Lectures:                                                        

1. Old and Middle English Poetry and Prose

2. Alliterative Revival, Geoffrey Chaucer        

3. Renaissance Period – Background, Early and Mid- Renaissance, Elizabethan Period

4. Renaissance love poetry

5. English Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare

6. Late Renaissance – Ben Jonson, John Donne

7. Civil War – John Milton and Others

8. Restoration Period – Drama and Prose

9. Eighteenth Century – Introduction and Poetry

10. The Rise of the Novel

11. The Development of the Novel, Late Classicism

12. Pre-Romantic Poetry

 

Seminars:

1. Introduction

2. Beowulf

3. The Canterbury Tales (Prologue, Pardoner’s Tale)

4. The Sonnet (Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare)

5. Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (Marlowe, Ralegh, Donne)

6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7. Hamlet

8. Religious Literature: The Dream of the Rood, Everyman, Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim’s Progress (extract)

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

10. 18th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract)

11. Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems)

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (04.05.2019)

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

Written test, the minimum requirement to pass = 70%