PdF:AJ2MK_B20A British Literature Seminar - Course Information
AJ2MK_B20A Seminar to British literature of the 20th century
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2012
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Renata Jančaříková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ2MK_B20A/01: Fri 21. 9. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 19. 10. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 2. 11. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 16. 11. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 30. 11. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 14. 12. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, V. Eliášová
AJ2MK_B20A/02: Fri 12. 10. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 26. 10. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 9. 11. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 23. 11. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 7. 12. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, Fri 21. 12. 9:20–11:00 učebna 58, V. Eliášová - 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
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- 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
- Modernist fiction and poetry (Joyce, Woolf)
- The Angry decade and after (Osborne, Golding)
- Welsh and Scottish authors (Thomas, Spark, Morgan)
- Drama (Pinter)
- Irish authors (Yeats, Heaney, MacLaverty, O'Connor)
- Postmodern innovations and the rise of critical theory (Fowles, Barnes)
- Women writers (Rhys, Carter)
- Postcolonial novels and theories (Rushdie, Smith)
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- Reading, discussing and analyzing selected materials.
- Assessment methods
- Seminar.
- home reading
- written assignment
- oral colloquy - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2012, recent)
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