AJ54011 Topics in Literature: Aspects of Comparison in the Twentieth Century British Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 7 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). 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
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Fri 12:30–14:05 G32
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
Course objectives
This year's course will follow a comparative approach to aspects of twentieth century poetry, focusing on poets from the first and second half of the century in each seminar. The aims of the course will be to consider how these poets approach their use of language in a poetic context and, in each individual session, to consider how the approach of the earlier poet compares with that of the later one. In addition to discussing and analysing the poems orally, course participants will be asked to produce an essay comparing the approaches of of two or more poets considered on the course from a perspective of their choosing.
Learning outcomes
Participants who have completed the course will have indicated that they can carry out an effective comparative analysis based on elements of the work of at least two twentieth century poets included in the syllabus for a given year.
Syllabus
  • Seminar 1:W.B.Yeats: Down in the Sally Gardens; The Lake Isle of Innisfree; When You Are Old; September 1913; Easter 1916; Leda and the Swan; Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop Seamus Heaney: Digging; The Tollund Man; Punishment; Casualty;Act of Union Seminar 2:Thomas Hardy:Neutral Tones; A Broken Appointment;The Self-Unseeing; After a Journey;At Castle Boterel Philip Larkin: Church Going; Ignorance;An Arundel Tomb; First Sight; Home is so Sad; Talking in Bed;Here; This Be the Verse; Going, Going; High Windows Seminar 3: EITHER Ezra Pound: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley; David Jones: The Anathemata;Basil Bunting: Briggflatts: OR Women's Poetry: U.A. Fanthorpe; Fleur Adcock; Patricia Beer; Wendy Cope; Vicki Feaver; Elma Mitchell; Selima Hill Seminar 4: D.H. Lawrence: Self-Pity; Snake; Lui Et Elle; Wages;The English Are So Nice; Bavarian Gentians Ted Hughes: The Thought Fox;Pike;Hawk Roosting;Six Young Men; A Childish Prank; Crow's First Lesson; February 17th Seminar 5: T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock; Gerontion; Journey of the Magi; Marina J.H. Prynne: Royal Fern; The Ideal Star-Fighter;L'Exstase de M. Poher; Of Movement Towards A Natural Place; Chromatin
Literature
    required literature
  • Yeats ,W.B. Selected Poems
  • Prynne, J.H., Poems
  • Hardy, Thoams (The Oxford Authors)
  • Bunting Basil, Complete Poems
  • Larkin, Philip, Collected Poems
  • Lawrence, D.H., The Complete Poems
  • Pound, Ezra, Personae: Selected Poems
  • Eliot. T.S., Collected Poems
    not specified
  • Hughes, Ted, Selected Poems
  • A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles
  • WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's room. Edited by Lawrence Norfolk - Elisabeth Bronfen. London: Vintage, 2004, xviii, 173. ISBN 0099478269. info
  • In the cage. Edited by Henry James. London: Electric Book Co., 2001, 124 p. ISBN 1901843939. info
  • The Aspern papers. Edited by Henry James. London: Electric Book Co., 2001, 122 p. ISBN 184327082X. info
  • MANSFIELD, Katherine. The doll's house and other stories. Edited by Ann Ward. Harlow: Penguin Books, 1999, v, 55. ISBN 0582418119. info
  • JOYCE, James. Dubliners. Edited by Terence Brown. London: Penguin Books, 1992, 316 s. ISBN 0-14-018554-2. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. To the lighthouse. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1964, 236 s. info
  • LAWRENCE, David Herbert. England, my England. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1960, 189 s. ISBN 0-14-001482-9. info
  • LAWRENCE, D. H. Love among the haystacks and other stories. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1960, 172 s. info
  • MANSFIELD, Roger and Katherine MANSFIELD. The garden party and other stories [Mansfield, 1928, Constable]. London: Constable, 1928, 276 s. info
  • MANSFIELD, Roger and Katherine MANSFIELD. Bliss and other stories. London: Constable, 1920, 279 s. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. Life's little ironies : a set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A few crusted characters. Pocket ed. London: Macmillan, 1907, 301 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.
General note: This course is NOT designated for Erasmus students! List of courses offerd by the Department of English and American studies for Erasmsus students is available at http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/ under "Information for Erasmus students".
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: This course is NOT designated for Erasmus students! List of courses offerd by the Department of English and American studies for Erasmsus students is available at http://www.phil.muni.cz/wkaa/ under "Information for Erasmus students".
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015, Spring 2020.
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