PdF:A2BP_SALI Old English Literature - Course Information
A2BP_SALI Old and Middle English Literature
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jiří Šalamoun, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- 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 - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- A2BP_SALI/01: Mon 11:10–12:50 učebna 58, J. Šalamoun
- Prerequisites
- ( A2BP_PJ1B Practical Language 1B && A2BP_GR1B Grammar B && A2BP_SFFB Phonetics Seminar B ) || A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam
A reading proficiency adequate to university level. Introduction to Literature course. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- The course is the first in the series of the so-called survey courses, and aims to map out the period of the British literature from the beginnings till the end of the 18th century. The seminar is based on reading and analysis of selected extracts, and activities and discussions related to them. The goal of the course is that the students are acquainted with chief works, authors and topics of the relevant periods,will achieve an in-depth understanding of the British life and culture and will exercise their reading and other competences.
- Syllabus
- 1. General introduction to Old English period: OE poems (Seafarer, Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood) and riddles.
- 2. Class cancelled due to national holiday.
- 3. The Old English Hero: Beowulf.
- 4. The Middle English Hero: Gawain and the Green Knight.
- 5. Middle English Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer in Context. ("Prologue to Canterbury Tales" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale.")
- 6. Elizabethan Era: Shakespearean sonnets.
- 7. Elizabethan Era: The Cruel Wooing of Shakespeare's of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- 8. The Hero of John Milton: Selected extracts from Paradise Lost.
- 9. Satire against Progress: Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels.
- 10. The Dawning of a New Genre: The Novel and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (part one).
- 11. Robinson Crusoe (part two).
- 12. Robinson Crusoe (part three).
- 13. Summary and conclusion of the course.
- Literature
- PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature: Part I. 2nd ed. Brno: PdF MU, 2005, 132 pp. 2. vydání. ISBN 80-210-3638-9. info
- BARNARD, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Translated by Zdeněk Beran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1997, 251 s. ISBN 8071767050. info
- Teaching methods
- The seminar expects from students to read the texts assigned, and actively participate in in-class debates.
- Assessment methods
- Assessment:
Attendance (80%), class participation, set reading, credit test - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1312
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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