FF:EVAJBL 20th Cent. British Literature - Course Information
EVAJBL British Literature in the 20th Century
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Kršková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Tue 19:10–20:45 G01
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- AJ01002 Practical English II
- 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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-FI) (2)
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-GE)
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-GK)
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-HS)
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-MA)
- English Language and Literature (programme FF, B-TV)
- European Economy, Administrative and Cultural Studies (programme ESF, B-HPS)
- Course objectives
- This course provides an overview of the development of British literature from the Victorian period to the present. The lectures will be accompanied by discussions of short stories, poems and extracts from novels or plays, both read in class and assigned as pre-class reading. At the end of the course, students should be aware of important writers, works, trends and streams in British literature in the 20th century. They should be able to read literary works critically and to formulate their own interpretations in English. They should be able to find links between historical events, literary trends and individual authors. The list of authors dealt with will include Charles Dickens, G. B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Graham Greene, William Golding, John Fowles, David Lodge, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and others.
- Syllabus
- Victorian literature + Oscar Wilde Modernism Angry Young Men Drama in the 20th century Post-war realist and experimental fiction Campus novel Britain multicultural Magic realism Feminism Postmodernism Contemporary writers
- Literature
- BERTENS, Johannes Willem and Joseph P. NATOLI. Encyklopedie postmodernismu. Translated by Štěpán Kaňa. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2005, 324 s. ISBN 8086598268. info
- Od slavíka k papouškovi :proměny britské prózy. Edited by Martin Hilský - Ladislav Nagy. Vyd. v tomto souboru 1. Brno: Host, 2002, 269 s. ISBN 80-7294-075-9. info
- FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky na konci tisíciletí (British Women Writers at the End of the Millennium). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1999, 206 pp. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, FF, č. 325. ISBN 80-210-2148-9. info
- HILSKÝ, Martin. Modernisté :Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1995, 269 s. ISBN 80-85639-40-8. info
- The Oxford companion to English literature. Edited by Margaret Drabble. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, viii, 1171. ISBN 0198662211. info
- BRADBURY, Malcolm. The modern British novel. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xvi, 515 s. ISBN 0-14-023098-X. info
- HILSKÝ, Martin. Současný britský román. [Jinočany]: H & H, 1992, 191 s. ISBN 80-85467-00-3. info
- 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
- MARWICK, Arthur. Culture in Britain since 1945. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1991, xiv, 206 p. ISBN 0-631-17189-455. info
- STŘÍBRNÝ, Zdeněk. Dějiny anglické literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1987, s. 421-837. info
- The Norton anthology of English literature. Edited by M. H. Abrams. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986, xlvi, 2578. ISBN 0393954781. info
- VANČURA, Zdeněk. Dvacet let anglického románu : 1945-1964. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1976, 113 s. URL info
- Assessment methods
- 2 written tests, presentation
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Tento kurz se nepočítá do kategorie povinně volitelných literárních kurzů. Počítá se jen do kategorie "Volitelné na KAA". - Teacher's information
- http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=2025
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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