PdF:AJ4_SNAL English Literature Seminar

AJ4_SNAL Modern English Literature Seminar

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2005

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

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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

Syllabus (in Czech)

BRITISH LITERATURE II: the 19th century Winter term 2004 Mgr. Lucie Podrouková Week One The outline of the course and the work required. Preromanticism: Robert Burns. Week Two Preromanticism continued: William Blake: nature and spirit. Week Three Romaticism proper: William Wordsworth, Week Four Romantic concept of poetry and the second generation: Percy Byshe Shelley: nature and history. Lord Byron, John Keats Week Five The Rise of the novel: Jane Austen: women in society. Week Six From Romanticism to Realism: Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë: Noble Savages, social outcasts. Week Seven Women and education: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot. Week Eight Unforgettable characters and social criticism: Charles Dickens. Week Nine New Romanticism and dark hearts: Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. Naturalism and fate: Thomas Hardy Week Ten Art for arts sake or not quite: Oscar Wilde. Week Eleven Language and society: G.B. Shaw. Week Twelve Closing of the Victorian era: John Galsworthy. Conclusion and evaluation.

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Typ výuky: seminář

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.