FF:AJL24105 Aspects of 19th & 20th Cent.BL - Course Information

AJL24105 Aspects of 19th and 20th Century British and European Literature

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. Mgr. Jan Chovanec, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

This semester’s course will cover aspects of mid to late 19th and earlier twentieth century British and French (in English translation) literature. The aim of the course will be to consider how both literatures explore and develop the societies in which they are situated as well as to consider interrelations between the two societies and their literatures. Writers whose work is considered in the course will include Flaubert, Hardy, James, Zola, Gissing, Conrad, Kipling, Proust, Forster, and Sartre.

Learning outcomes

Students completing the course should have gained a better understanding of relations between modern society and literature in the period considered, in terms of developing ways to create a fuller understanding of relations between a wide range of individuals, social and těchnical trends, critical problems and approaches developed in the relevant literatures to addressing, examining, and dramatising these problems from a variety of philosophical and aesthetic perspectives.

Syllabus

• Week 1: INDUCTION WEEK: NO CLASS Week 2: Introductory Week 3: G.Flaubert: Madam Bovary Week 4: T. Hardy: The Return of the Native Week 5: E. Zola: The Belly of Paris Week 6: G. Gissing: New Grub Street Week 7: H. James: The Portrait of a Lady Week 8:M.Proust: Swann’s Way Week9:J-P. Sartre: Nausea Week10: READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 11: J. Conrad: Nostromo Week 12: E. M. Forster: A Passage to India (Week13: R. Kipling: Kim)

Literature

• Proust, Marcel, By Way of Swann's, London, Penguin
• Zola, Emile, The Belly of Paris, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Sartre, Jean Paul, Nausea, London, Penguin
• Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• Kipling Rudyard, Kim, Oxford, Oxford University Press
• CONRAD, Joseph. Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard. Edited by Martin Seymour-Smith. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1990, 474 s. ISBN 014018371X. info
• HARDY, Thomas. The return of the native. Edited by Derwent James May. London: Macmillan, 1974, 445 s. ISBN 0-333-16884-4. info
• New Grub street. Edited by Bernard Bergonzi. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1968, 556 s. ISBN 0-14-043032-6. info
• JAMES, Henry. The portrait of a lady. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963, 591 s. info
• FORSTER, E. M. A passage to India. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1961, 316 s. ISBN 0-14-000048-8. info

Teaching methods

The course will be taught through a combination of close reading, group discussion and full class discussion.

Assessment methods

The course will be assessed by a combination of oral performance (40%), including attendance and contribution, and an essay (60%). The essay should be 8-10 pages long, type size 12, double-spaced. It should be delivered to my e-mail address at any time during the examination period and but no later than the final date in the IS. Students who have not received a grade within a week should contact me once that week has expired.

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course is taught: every week.

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