AJPV_BR20 British literature of the 20th century

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
! AJPV_BR20 British literature
The course expects students to be familiar with the overview of British literature since the beginnings till the end of the nineteenth century. Students have solid foundations and tools of literary analysis and are comfortable with reading and discussing literary texts in English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This survey course examines the development of British literature throughout the 20th century against the background of historical, social and cultural events and as demonstrated on concrete literary samples. At the end of the course students will be able to recognize major figures of the 20th-century British literature and up to the present. The lectures will combine literary history, dealing with significant decades, movements and styles, and close reading and analysis practised on individual extracts.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction into the twentieth century: rage against the machine.
  • 2. Inside out: Modernism.
  • 3. Interwar period and the 1950s.
  • 4. Angry Young Men and campus novel.
  • 5. Postmodernism.
  • 6. Women writers to the fore.
  • 7. Postwar British poetry.
  • 8. Also British: Multiculturalism and ethnic writers.
  • 9. British is not English only: Literature in the Devolution period.
  • 10. Postwar British drama
  • 11. Contemporary trends in British literature and Man Booker Prize
  • 12. Guest lecture
  • 13. Final assessment
Literature
  • současná skotská próza
  • The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere. Edited by David Kennedy. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012, 188 p. ISBN 9781409418818. info
  • LANE, David. Contemporary British drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, vii, 218. ISBN 9780748638222. info
  • Britská čítanka : Gutenbergova čítanka moderní britské literatury : anglicko-české vydání. Edited by Petr Matoušek, Illustrated by Vojtěch Domlátil. Vyd. 3., dopl. a aktualiz. Praha: Gutenberg, 2008, 319 s. ISBN 9788086349381. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky na přelomu tisíciletí (British Women Writers at the Turn of the Millennium). Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2003. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, 347. ISBN 80-210-3290-1. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky do nového tisíciletí: Jeanette Wintersonová, Rose Tremainová (British Novelists for the New Millennium: Jeanette Winterson, Rose Tremain). Host. Časopis pro literaturu a čtenáře. Brno: Spolek přátel vydávání časopisu Host, 2002, vol. 2002, No 9, p. 50-52. ISSN 1211-9938. info
  • The Longman anthology of British literature. Edited by David Damrosch - Kevin J. H. Dettmar - Jennifer Wicke. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2002, xxiii, s. ISBN 032110580X. info
  • Ve znaku bodlák : současná skotská poezie. Edited by Zdeněk Hron. Vyd. 1. v českém jazyce. Praha: BB art, 2001, 105 s. ISBN 807257521X. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky na konci tisíciletí. 1997, 323, [2] info
  • CARTER, Ronald and John MCRAE. The Routledge history of literature in English: Britain and Ireland. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury. London: Routledge, 1997, xix, 592. ISBN 0415123437. info
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Současný britský román. [S.l.]: H & H, 1991, 304 s. ISBN 8085467003. info
  • MANLY, John Matthews, Fred Benjamin MILLETT and Edith RICKERT. Contemporary British literature : a critical survey and 232 author-bibliographies. 3rd rev. and enl. ed. / base. London: Harcourt, Brace, 1935, xi, 556 p. info
Teaching methods
Lecture: literary history and analysis of selected readings along with their examination in the cultural space of the 20th century U.K.
Assessment methods
Interview: readings assigned to the topics covered. Students are expected to discuss the extract and examine it in the relevant context.
Language of instruction
English
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 1 hodina.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
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