AJPV_LABR Transformation of the Landscape in British Literature

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 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
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJPV_LABR/01: Tue 12:05–13:45 respirium (5. nadzemní podlaží), L. Podroužková
Prerequisites
Introduction to Literature and Critical Reading.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course in to study British literature against the backdrop of the British landscape. The seminar will examine some of the chief works of literature from the Old English period till late 20th century. The seminar will discuss historical attitudes to nature, from pastoral to realistic, and its reflection in the arts. The reading syllabus spans the state exam content.
Syllabus
  • 1. The fear outside: Old English period: Beowulf, riddles. 2. Signs of God: Middle English period. Piers Plowman. 3. Nature vs. civilization: Renaissance. Sonnets by Shakespeare. 4. The Man´s hand: Classicism. Robinson Crusoe. 5. The wisdom of nature: Romanticism. Robert Burns, William Blake and the Lake Poets. 6. Nature as a soul untamed: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre. 7. The country and the city: Realism: Charles Dickens. 8. Survival of the fittest: Naturalism. Tess of the d´Urbervilles. 9. Nature as an individual: Modernism. Virginia Woolf. 10. Industrial clatter: Modernism. T.S. Eliot. 11. Urbanscape: Postmodernism. Martin Amis.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature. Part II: The nineteenth century. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 176 pp. 2. vydání. ISBN 80-210-4108-8. info
    not specified
  • TAYLOR, Tom. Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape : with pictures in words. London: George Routledge and Sons, 30 s. : il. info
  • The medieval English landscape, 1000-1540. Edited by G. J. White. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012, xvi, 277 p. ISBN 9781441181473. info
  • Mapping the Wessex novellandscape, history and the parochial in British literature, 1870-1940. Edited by Andrew D. Radford. New York: Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010, 182 p. ISBN 9780826439680. info
  • The Longman anthology of British literature. Edited by David Damrosch - Kevin J. H. Dettmar. 4th ed. Boston: Longman, 2010, xxiii, s. ISBN 9780205655311. info
  • PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature, Part I. 2.dotisk 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 130 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-3638-3. info
  • TIM MOWL. Gentlemen gardeners : the men who created the English landscape garden. 1st ed. Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2000, xiv, 218. ISBN 9780750937689. info
  • MEYER, Laure. Masters of English landscape. Paris: Terrail, 1992, 223 s. ISBN 2879390370. info
  • The English landscape in picture, prose and poetry. Edited by Kathleen Conyngham Greene. London: Ivor, Nicholson & Watson, 1932, 2 p. l., v. info
Teaching methods
close reading and textual analysis reading and speaking activities group work and pair work project work
Assessment methods
80% attendance and active classwork 1 play and 1 novel to read reading project Assigned reading options: PLAY William Shakespeare: Macbeth William Shakespeare: King Lear William Shakespeare: The Tempest William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night´s Dream William Shakespeare: As You Like It NOVEL Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen: Emma Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Anne Brontë: The Tennant of the Wildfell Hall George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss Charles Dickens: Great Expectations Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist Charles Dickens: David Copperfield Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d´Urbervilles Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow E.M. Forster: Howards End
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Pozn. Literární seminář.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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