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

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2015
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. (plus 3 za zk). Doporučované ukončení: zk. Jiná možná ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
každé liché pondělí 15:50–17:25 G21
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This semester's will focus primarily on developments in the historical novel from Scott's 'Waverley' through to works by more contemporary writers such as John Berger, John Cowper Powys,and Thomas Pynchon, though with some emphasis on relations with 'natural' history, particularly with respect to broader notions of time than that of human history. In each case, relations between national, social, and sexual politics will be comparatively analysed and discussed. The aims 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 its own present and to our own and the ways in which serious artistic writing seeks, among other things, to critique and transcend the limitations of 'factual' history writing.Students will be asked to read and discuss a series of novels from these perspectives and then to produce an analytical essay focused on an area related to this thematic.
Osnova
  • Seminar 1.Walter Scott: Waverley Seminar 2 Herman Melville: Moby Dick Seminar 3:John Cowper Powys: Porius Seminar 4:John Berger: G Seminar 5:Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
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
    neurčeno
  • FOWLES, John. The french lieutenant's woman. London: Vintage, 2004, 445 s. ISBN 0099478331. info
  • JAMES, Henry. The Princess Casamassima. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, 526 s. ISBN 0-14-004102-8. info
  • CONRAD, Joseph. Nostromo : a tale of the seaboard. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963, 462 s. info
  • BYRON, George Gordon Byron. The complete poetical works of Byron. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1933, xxi, 1055. 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%).The essay must relate to one or more of the texts taught on the course.The essays has the status of an exam and needs to be registered for. Essays must be submitted in hard copy form.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2011, podzim 2012, podzim 2013, podzim 2016.