PdF:A2BK_SALI Old English Literature - Course Information
A2BK_SALI Old and Middle English Literature
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/24. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jaroslav Izavčuk (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, 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 of Seminar Groups
- A2BK_SALI/OS01: Fri 16. 9. 11:00–12:20 učebna 59, Fri 30. 9. 11:00–12:20 učebna 59, Fri 21. 10. 11:00–12:20 učebna 59, Fri 11. 11. 11:00–12:20 učebna 59, Fri 25. 11. 11:00–12:20 učebna 59, Fri 9. 12. 11:00–12:20 učebna 59, L. Podroužková
A2BK_SALI/01: each even Monday 14:20–16:00 učebna 12, J. Izavčuk - Prerequisites
- A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BK_SOZK Complex Exam || AJ2BP_SOZK Qualifying Exam || AJ2BP_SZKO Qualifying Exam
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
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (eng.) (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE) (2)
- Course objectives
- British literature from the beginnings till the end of the 18th century
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. King Lear. Hamlet
6. The Seventeenth Century: The Metaphysics (John Donne)
7. Cromwelian Literature (Restoration lit.) and John Milton. Pamphlets; Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal.
8.The novel: Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney. - Syllabus
- British literature from the beginnings till the end of the 18th century
- 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. King Lear. Hamlet
- 6. The Seventeenth Century: The Metaphysics (John Donne)
- 7. Cromwelian Literature (Restoration lit.) and John Milton. Pamphlets; Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal.
- 8.The novel: Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney.
- Literature
- BURGESS, Anthony. English literature : a survey for students. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1974, 278 s. ISBN 0582552249. info
- PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature: Part I. 2nd ed. Brno: PdF MU, 2005, 132 pp. 2. vydání. ISBN 80-210-3638-9. info
- BARNARD, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Translated by Zdeněk Beran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1997, 251 s. ISBN 8071767050. info
- Teaching methods
- discussion based seminar
- Assessment methods
- Grades and Evaluation
Homework, written assignements (response papers), set reading 40%
Credit Test 40%
Attendance 20%
PLEASE NOTE: Attendance (80%) is assumed. 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 abscense affects your grade as well. - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin. - Teacher's information
- http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1789&hide=14&sesskey=ynzsB5B6rz#section-14
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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