AJPV_SNAL Modern English Literature Seminar

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Timetable
Thu 16:10–17:50 učebna 58
Prerequisites
A course in Introduction to literature and minimum one survey course in literature.
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
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Course objectives
The course covers the period of the 19th century British literature, from Romanticism to Naturalism. The goal of the seminar is to acquaint students with chief works, authors and topics of the period and to develop advanced reading skills.
Syllabus
  • 1. Reading Robert Burns, William Blake.
  • 2. Reading William Wordsworth.
  • 3. Reading P.B. Shelley, G.G. Byron, John Keats.
  • 4. Reading Jane Austen.
  • 5. Reading Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte.
  • 6. Reading Charles Dickens.
  • 7. Reading Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë and George Elliot.
  • 8. Reading R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Wilkie Collins.
  • 9. Reading Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
  • 10. Reading Oscar Wilde.
  • 11. Reading Thomas Hardy, George Gissing and William Somerset Maugham. Language and society: G.B. Shaw.
Literature
  • TILLOTSON, Geoffrey. A view of Victorian literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978, x, 396. ISBN 0198120443. info
  • WALKER, Janie Roxburgh and Hugh WALKER. Outlines of Victorian literature. Cambridge: University Press, 1919, viii, 224. info
  • 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
Assessment methods
- critical reading
- home assignments
- oral discussion- written test
Language of instruction
English
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 2 hodiny.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=663
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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