A2BP_BR20 Modern British Literature

Faculty of Education
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jaroslav Izavčuk (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites (in Czech)
A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BK_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BP_POZK Qualifying Exam
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
In the seminars we will explore major writers and literary movements of the period as well as analyze recurrent themes and motifs in the assigned readings. At the end of the course students will be able to identify major figures of British literature of the 20th century, make their own connections between the assigned reading and also question and actively interpret them as well as create their own critical evaluation.
Syllabus
  • This course begins with the premise that British literature of the first half of the twentieth century was shaped by profound concerns about the present. If modernism is often understood as a unified and coherent aesthetic movement, championing its own modernity, we will pay attention to its spirit of ambivalence, contradiction, and deep conflict, especially with respect to such vexed topics as gender and sexuality, empire and nationalism, war and revolution, production and consumption, and political power. Our particular angle for addressing these large issues will be the representation of past, present, and future in a range of literary works. Authors include E.M.Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, T.S.Eliot, Orwell, Beckett, Amis, Pinter, and Osborn.
  • 1. E.M. Forster: Passage to India
  • 2. T.S. Eliot: The Wasteland, Joyce:Ulysses. Modernism
  • 3. Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway. The Bloomsbury Group
  • 4.Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984
  • 5.Theatre of the Absurd:Beckett's Waiting for Godot
  • 6.Angry Young Men:Amis's Lucky Jim, Osborn's Look Back in Anger
Literature
    required literature
  • BURGESS, Anthony. English literature : a survey for students. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1974, 278 s. ISBN 0582552249. info
    not specified
  • ČAŇKOVÁ, Michaela. Britská literatura 20. století. Vyd. 1. Voznice: LEDA, 1997, 177 s. ISBN 8085927330. info
  • BARNARD, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Translated by Zdeněk Beran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1997, 251 s. ISBN 8071767050. info
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Modernisté :Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1995, 269 s. ISBN 80-85639-40-8. info
Teaching methods
analyse, interpret, and discuss the set literary works, apply the knowledge from the lectures, home assignments, home reading,
Assessment methods
Attendance is not required but strongly recommended
Participate in class discussions
compare two literary works in papers
deliver a response paper for each class
asses the knowledge in the test
review and discussion round-up in the colloquy
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1518
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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