Older English Literature - OIBA3A022A

• Title: Older English Literature
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
• 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: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (25.10.2020)

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. Themes: 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

Literature

English

Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (25.10.2020)

Primary sources:

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”

Selected secondary sources:

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.