FF:AJL54011 Aspects of Comparison: Br. Lit - Course Information
AJL54011 Topics in Literature: Aspects of Comparison in the Twentieth Century British Literature
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- John Christopher Fennelly, B.A. (lecturer)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts - 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-AJ_)
- 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 follow a comparative approach to aspects of twentieth and twentieth century poetry. The aims of the course will be to consider how individual poets develop their use of language in a variety of contexts, social, geographical and political.
- Learning outcomes
- Students completing the course will have gained an understanding of the work of the writers considered from the perspective of a variety of points of consideration, including formal, historical, socio-cultural,regional, political and aesthetic.
- Syllabus
- 1.Feb.21st Introductory 2:Feb.28th Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones; A Broken Appointment; The Self-Unseeing; After a Journey; At Castle Boterel 3: March 6th:W.B.Yeats:Down by the Salley Gardens; The Lake Isle of Innisfree; When You are Old; Who Goes with Fergus?; The Secret Rose; September 1913; Easter 1916; Among Schoolchildren; Byzantium; Crazy Jane on God; Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop; The Circus Animals' Desertion 4: March 13th:'War' Poets (W.W.I):Edward Thomas: Like the Touch of Rain; Over the Hills; Adlestrop; Lob; In Memoriam (Easter 1915); At The Team's Head-Brass; David Jones: In Parenthesis: Starlight Order; 5: March 20th:Ezra Pound:In a Station of the Metro; T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock; The Waste Land; Four Quartets: Burnt Norton 6: March 27th: Philip Larkin:Church Going;Ignorance;An Arundel Tomb;Home is So Sad; Talking in Bed;Here;Dockery and Son;High Windows; Annus Mirabilis;This Be The Verse; Going,Going 7: April 3rd:W.H.Auden Louis MacNeice 8: April 10th: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath 9: April 17th: Michael Donaghy 10: April 24th:Seamus Heaney and contemporary Irish Poetry 11:May 1st: HOLIDAY: NO CLASS 12:May 8th: HOLIDAY: NO CLASS 13:May 15th:Alice Oswald and the current poetry scene.
- Literature
- required literature
- Larkin, Philip, Collected Poems
- Pound, Ezra, Personae: Selected Poems
- Prynne, J.H., Poems
- Hardy, Thoams (The Oxford Authors)
- Yeats ,W.B. Selected Poems
- Lawrence, D.H., The Complete Poems
- Bunting Basil, Complete Poems
- Eliot. T.S., Collected Poems
- not specified
- A Rage for Order: Poetry of the Northern Ireland Troubles
- Hughes, Ted, Selected Poems
- 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 will take the form of close reading, mini-lectures, group work and class discussion.
- Assessment methods
- Assessment for the course will take the form of attendance and oral performance (40%) plus an essay of 7-10 pages (60%).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
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".
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