A2BK_BR20 20th Century British Literature

Faculty of Education
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/0/24. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jaroslav Izavčuk (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Prerequisites
A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BK_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BP_POZK Qualifying Exam
Completion of all previous compulsory courses in literature
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
This course begins with the premise that British literature of the first half of the twentieth century was shaped by profound concerns about the present. If modernism is often understood as a unified and coherent aesthetic movement, championing its own modernity, we will pay attention to its spirit of ambivalence, contradiction, and deep conflict, especially with respect to such vexed topics as gender and sexuality, empire and nationalism, war and revolution, production and consumption, and political power. Our particular angle for addressing these large issues will be the representation of past, present, and future in a range of literary works. Authors include Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, T.S.Eliot, Auden
Syllabus
  • 1. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, E.M. Forster: Passage to India
  • 2. T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland. Modernism
  • 3. James Joyce: Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • 4. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway. The Bloomsbury Group
  • 5. D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
  • 6. Auden, Owen: Selected poems
Literature
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Modernisté :Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1995, 269 s. ISBN 80-85639-40-8. info
  • ČAŇKOVÁ, Michaela. Britská literatura 20. století. Vyd. 1. Voznice: LEDA, 1997, 177 s. ISBN 8085927330. info
  • BARNARD, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Translated by Zdeněk Beran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1997, 251 s. ISBN 8071767050. info
  • Barnard R. A Short History of English Literature.1987. Oxford
  • LODGE, David. The art of fiction :illustrated from classic and modern texts. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, xi, 240 s. ISBN 0-14-017492-3. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussions, homework, reading, text analysis
Assessment methods
Test
Colloquy (if needed)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1518
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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