AJ2RC_STAL British Literature from the Beginnings to Romanticism

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0/24. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Waisserová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Prerequisites
A reading proficiency adequate to university level.
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
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 objectives of the course are that the students are acquainted with chief works of the English literary canon, 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
  • Note: The following themes are tentative. The instructor secures right to adjust the working schedule, as well as choose other readings. 1. Introductory Practicalities and Work Required. Mapping the territory of Old English Literature and Early Modern Literature, up to Eighteen Century. 2. Old English Period: Riddles. Beowulf. The Arthurian Legend. Excalibur. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 3. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; Robin Hood and the Widow's Sons. 4. Elizabethan Era: Drama and Sonnet. Elizabethan Theatre. Shakespearean Comedies. 5. Shakespeare and Tragedies. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet 6. Renaissance Man and Science. Christopher Marlowe. Doctor Faustus. 7. The Seventeenth Century: The Metaphysics (John Donne) and the Cavaliers. 8. Cromwelian Literature (Restoration lit.) and John Milton. Pamphlets; Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal. 9. Women's literature. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of Rights of Women; Aphra Ben. 9. Augustan Literature and Drama. John Gay: The Beggar's Opera. 10.The novel: Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney. 11. Preromantic and Early Romantic Poetry. Robert Burns, William Blake.
Literature
  • A reader in british literature. Edited by Lucie Podroužková. 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 176 stran. ISBN 8021041080. info
Assessment methods
Grades and Evaluation Homework, in-class assignments, set reading 40% Credit Test 40% Oral Presentation 20% PLEASE NOTE: Attendance (80%) is expected. Satisfactory result on assignments plus regular attendance will determine the grade. The course is hands-on, based on activities rather than lecturing. You are expected to work both for and in the sessions. Unexcused excessive absence affects your grade as well. Each student will have to give 5 min. an oral presentation.(More details will be provided in class).
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=995
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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