AJ24093 Příroda, etika a politika v moderní próze 1760-2010

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2011
Rozsah
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Vyučující
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Rozvrh
každé sudé úterý 14:10–15:45 G32
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course this semester will primarily focus on aspects of the nineteenth century English historical imagination mostly in relation to the historical novel but beginning with aspects of Byron's 'Childe Harold', before moving on to consideration of Walter Scott's 'Waverley', George Eliot's 'Romola', and Walter Pater's 'Marius the Epicurian'; a twentieth century coda will be provided by an introductory purview of John Cowper Powys's 'Porius' and Thomas Pynchon's 'Against the Day'. The aim of the course will to be introduce participants to an appreciation of the sensibility and implications of writing (and reading) about a substantially different historical era in relation to the present and the ways in which serious artistic writing can and must transcend the limitations of 'factual' history writing. We will begin with Byron, in his (but not our) present, move to Scott writing 'Sixty Years' hence and move simulatenously forwards and backwards in time with the novels by the subsequent writers.
Osnova
  • Week 1) 4.10 Byron: Don Juan: Canto 1 & introductions (first ten to twenty stanzas) to the other 15 Cantos (in each case consider the theme and argument of the introduction) Week 2) 18.10 W. Scott: Waverley Week 3) 1.11. G. Eliot: Romola(first half) Week 4) 15.11.G.Eliot: Romola (second half) Week 5) 29.11.W. Pater: Marius the Epicurean Week 6) 17.12.T. Pynchon: Against The Day (extract)
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • SCOTT, Walter. Waverley. London: Caxton Pub., 382 s. info
  • Pynchon, Thomas Against The Day London Vintage 2007
  • POWYS, John Cowper. Porius : [a novel]. Edited by Judith Bond - Morine Krissdóttir. 1st pub. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007, 751 s. ISBN 9781585673667. info
  • ELIOT, George. Romola. London: Oxford University Press, 1916, 688 s. info
  • PATER, Walter. Marius the Epicurean : his sensations and ideas. Vol. 1. Library ed. London: Macmillan, 1910, 242 s. info
  • PATER, Walter. Marius the Epicurean : his sensations and ideas. Vol. 2. Library ed. London: Macmillan, 1910, 223 s. info
Výukové metody
The course will be taught through seminars. Teaching will take the form of seminar discussion and close-reading.The outcome will take the form of an essay in which aspects of the literature discussed will be anlaysed, partly in relation to perspectives derived from teaching in the seminar, though participants will also be expected to think for themselves.
Metody hodnocení
Assessment will be by class contribution (attendance and oral participation) (40%) and a 6-10 page essay (60%).
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2012, podzim 2013, jaro 2015, podzim 2016.