AJ26068 Rural Perspectives

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
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 Thursday 10:50–12:25 G32
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide the students with a view on how relations between subjectivity, social relations and nature, as viewed from a Romantic perspective, in rural contexts, develop from Rousseau and Wordsworth through to John Cowper Powys.By the end of the course, students will have read, discussed and analysed in spoken and written form aspects of the texts chosen to represent this development.
Syllabus
  • 1)February 24th:Introductory 2)March 10th:W.Wordsworth: The Prelude: Books 1&2, 12&13, and Conclusion 3)March 24th: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 4)April 7th: George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss 5)April 21st: Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native 6)May 5th: D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow 7)May 19th: John Cowper Powys: Wolf Solent
Literature
  • The rainbow (Orig.) : Duha [Lawrence, 1999]. info
  • Cowper Powys John Wolf Solent
  • Gibbons, Stella Cold Comfort Farm
  • ELIOT, George. The mill on the floss. London: Penguin Books, 1994, vii, 534 s. ISBN 0-14-062027-3. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd. Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1993, 423 s. ISBN 1-85326-067-3. info
  • BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering heights. Edited by David Daiches. London: Penguin Books, 1985, 373 s. ISBN 0-14-043001-6. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. The return of the native. Edited by Derwent James May. London: Macmillan, 1974, 445 s. ISBN 0-333-16884-4. info
  • WORDSWORTH, William. The prelude :a parallel text. Edited by J. C. Maxwell. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971, 573 s. ISBN 0-14-080105-7. info
Teaching methods
The caue will be taught by a combination of close reading and small and large group discussion and analysis.
Assessment methods
The course will be examined by a combination of assessments of oral performance and a final essay of 6-10 pages (60percent).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
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