PdF:AJPV_BR20 British literature - Course Information
AJPV_BR20 British literature of the 20th century
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová - 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
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2007, recent)
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