PdF:AJPV_BR20 British literature - Course Information
AJPV_BR20 British literature of the 20th century
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková - Timetable
- Mon 12:30–13:15 učebna 50
- 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. In the end of the course students will be able to recognize major figures of British literature of the 20th century.
- 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, O'Connor)
- 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)
- Literature
- The Longman anthology of British literature. Edited by David Damrosch - Kevin J. H. Dettmar - Jennifer Wicke. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2002, xxiii, s. ISBN 032110580X. info
- MEISEL, Perry. The myth of the modern :a study in British literature and criticism after 1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, x, 263 s. ISBN 0-300-03946-8. info
- MANLY, John Matthews, Fred Benjamin MILLETT and Edith RICKERT. Contemporary British literature : a critical survey and 232 author-bibliographies. 3rd rev. and enl. ed. / base. London: Harcourt, Brace, 1935, xi, 556 p. info
- Teaching methods
- Reading, discussing and analyzing selected materials.
- Assessment methods
- Lecture.
- home reading
- reading diary - Language of instruction
- English
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 1 hodina.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2010, recent)
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