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Selected chapters from English literature - OPNA2A116B
Title: Vybrané kapitoly z anglické literatury
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2018
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [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
Is provided by: OPNA1A122B
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (28.06.2017)
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 a combination of the teacher’s lead-ins, class discussions and students’ presentations based on preceding independent preparation and reading.
Descriptors - Czech
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (30.09.2020)

Distanční výuka tohoto předmětu bude realizována kombinací

- online výuky v rozsahu minimálně 50% rozvrhované přímé výuky

- domácí příprava na základě elektronicky zaslaných výukových materiálů

- splnění úkolů k samostatnému vypracování s poskytnutou zpětnou vazbou

 

Online výuka bude mít následující podobu:

- interaktivní online semináře v délce 90 minut, které se budou konat ve vybrané čtvrtky od 14:25

- konkrétní data online seminářů budou včas oznámeny emailem či na předchozím semináři

- ZOOM platforma online seminářů (linky na jednotlivé semináře budou posílány emailem)

Literature
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (28.06.2017)

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)

 

Syllabus
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (30.09.2020)

1. Introduction, organization

2. English literature and religion

3. English Neo-Classicism and Romanticism

4. Climaxes of English drama

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

6. British Modernism(s)

7. British literature from the 1930s to the 1960s

8. Metamorphoses of English poetic sensibility

9. Postmodernism in British literature

10. Essay writing session

 

Texts for reading:

John Milton: Paradise Lost (extract)

Selected poems (hand-out)

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

Harold Pinter: Homecoming

Course completion requirements
Last update: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. (30.08.2018)

- regular attendance (max. 2 absences)

- short presentations on given themes and active participation in class discussions

- mock comprehensive exam essay of 600 words on a selected/given topic

 

 
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