PdF:AJ2MP_B20A British literature - Course Information

AJ2MP_B20A British literature of the 20th century

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Pavla Buchtová (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová

Timetable of Seminar Groups

AJ2MP_B20A/01: Wed 14:20–16:00 učebna 30
AJ2MP_B20A/02: Wed 17:05–18:45 učebna 57

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

• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS5)

Course objectives

This survey course examines the development of British literature throughout the 20th century on the background of historical, social and cultural events. In the seminars we will explore major writers and literary movements of the period as well as recurrent themes and motifs in the assigned readings.

Syllabus

• Edwardian novelists (H. G. Wells)
• Modernist fiction and poetry (Joyce, Woolf)
• Inter-war period (Maugham, Auden, Orwell)
• The Angry decade and after (Osborne, Golding)
• Welsh and Scottish authors (Thomas, Spark, Morgan)
• Drama (Pinter)
• Irish authors (Yeats, Heaney, MacLaverty, OConnor)
• Poetry and poetic movements (Smith, Raine, Harrison, Zephaniah)
• The tradition of the campus novel and British humour (Lodge, Dahl)
• Postmodern innovations and the rise of critical theory (Fowles, Barnes)
• Women writers (Rhys, Carter)
• Postcolonial novels and theories (Rushdie, Smith)

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2006, recent)
  
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