PdF:AJ0315 Transformation of the Landscap - Course Information

AJ0315 Transformation of the Landscape in British Literature

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, 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

AJ0315/01: Mon 10:00–11:50 učebna 11, L. Podroužková

Prerequisites

! AJPV_LABR Transformation of the Landscape in British Literature
Practical Language 1B Critical Reading

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The aim of the course in to study British literature against the backdrop of the British landscape. The seminar will examine some of the chief works of literature from the Old English period till late 20th century. The seminar will discuss historical attitudes to nature, from pastoral to realistic, and its reflection in the arts. The reading syllabus spans the state exam content.

Learning outcomes

Očekávané výstupy: • student je schopen poučeně číst a interpretovat literární texty v anglickém originále • student získá vhled do probírané tematiky. Student chápe, jakými způsoby se krajina promítá do literatury a jak literatura a umění obecně spoluutváří její podobu • student odevzdá 3 písemné úkoly během semestru a samostatně nebo ve dvojici vytvoří pomůcku k výuce, která se týká tématu a období

Syllabus

• 1. The fear outside: Old English period: Beowulf, riddles. 2. Signs of God: Middle English period. Piers Plowman. 3. Nature vs. civilization: Renaissance. Sonnets by Shakespeare. 4. The Man´s hand: Classicism. Robinson Crusoe. 5. The wisdom of nature: Romanticism. Robert Burns, William Blake and the Lake Poets. Jane Austen. 6. Nature as a soul untamed: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre. 7. The country and the city: Realism: Charles Dickens. 8. Survival of the fittest: Naturalism. Tess of the d´Urbervilles. 9. Nature as an individual: Modernism. Virginia Woolf. 10. Industrial clatter: Modernism. T.S. Eliot. 11. Urbanscape: Postmodernism. Martin Amis.

Literature

• TAYLOR, Tom. Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape : with pictures in words. London: George Routledge and Sons, 30 s. : il. info
• british literature
• PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature, Part I. 2.dotisk 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 130 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-3638-3. info
• PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature, Part II. 2nd ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 2006, 176 pp. 4395/Pd-19/06-17/93. ISBN 80-210-4108-0. info
• A reader in british literature. Edited by Lucie Podroužková. 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2005, 130 stran. ISBN 9788021036383. info
• 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
• TIM MOWL. Gentlemen gardeners : the men who created the English landscape garden. 1st ed. Stroud, Gloucestershire: History Press, 2000, xiv, 218. ISBN 9780750937689. info
• MUIR, Richard. Approaches to landscape. 1st pub. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999, xix, 310 s. ISBN 0-333-69393-0. info
• WIENER, Martin J. English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit, 1850-1980. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981, xi, 217. ISBN 0140136967. info
• The English landscape in picture, prose and poetry. Edited by Kathleen Conyngham Greene. London: Ivor, Nicholson & Watson, 1932, 2 p. l., v. info

Teaching methods

close reading and textual analysis reading and speaking activities group work and pair work project work

Assessment methods

80% attendance and active classwork 1 play and 1 novel to read Assigned reading options: PLAY William Shakespeare: Macbeth William Shakespeare: King Lear William Shakespeare: The Tempest William Shakespeare: Midsummer Night´s Dream William Shakespeare: As You Like It NOVEL Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen: Emma Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Anne Brontë: The Tennant of the Wildfell Hall George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss Charles Dickens: Great Expectations Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist Charles Dickens: David Copperfield Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d´Urbervilles Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow E.M. Forster: Howards End

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Předmět bude realizován, pokud se přihlásí alespoň 15 studentů.

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