FF:AJ54011 Aspects of Comparison: Br. Lit - Course Information
AJ54011 Topics in Literature: Aspects of Comparison in the Twentieth Century British Literature
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek - Timetable
- each even Friday 12:30–14:05 G31
- 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
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-FI)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS)
- Course objectives
- This year's course will focus on a comparative analysis of works of major produced by five different writers in the first part of the twentieth century: Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys and Virginia Woolf. The aim of the course will be to consider how the concerns of these, chronologically proximate, writers converge and diverge. By the end of the course will have produced an essay demonstrating their ability to provide a contrastive analysis of two or more of the works covered on the course.
- Syllabus
- Seminar 1: 7.10. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness; Nostromo Seminar 2: 21.10. D.H. Lawrence: Women in Love Seminar 3: 4.11. James Joyce: Ulysses Seminar 4: 2.12. Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room; Mrs Dalloway; To the Lighthouse Seminar 5: 16.12. John Cowper Powys: Wolf Solent
- Literature
- WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's room. Edited by Lawrence Norfolk - Elisabeth Bronfen. London: Vintage, 2004, xviii, 173. ISBN 0099478269. info
- WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. London: Penguin Books, 1996, 213 s. ISBN 0140622217. info
- LAWRENCE, D. H. Women in love. London: Penguin Books, 1996, 542 s. ISBN 014062161X. info
- JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Edited by Declan Kiberd. Annotated student's ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, lxxxviii,. ISBN 0-14-018559-3. info
- CONRAD, Joseph. Heart of darkness : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism. Edited by Robert Kimbrough. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1971, xii, 267. ISBN 0393097730. info
- WOOLF, Virginia. To the lighthouse. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1964, 236 s. info
- CONRAD, Joseph. Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963, 462 s. info
- POWYS, John Cowper. Wolf solent. New and cheaper ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933, 643 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching by close reading, group work and class discussion in the form of five ninety minute seminars.Attendance at all seminars is required.
- Assessment methods
- Assesment for the course will take the form of one essay of 8-12 pages comparing aspects of either two or three of the works covered in a given seminar (60%) and oral participation/attendance (40%).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 5x2.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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