AJL14071 Evelyn Waugh: Fiction: 1929-1962

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2024

Předmět se v období podzim 2024 nevypisuje.

Rozsah
0/2/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Předpoklady
AJ09999 Postupová zkouška || AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 30 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/30, pouze zareg.: 0/30, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/30
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
The course will focus on the work of the famous twentieth century English novelist, Evelyn Waugh, with the aim of analysing a series of representative aspects of his fictional work, produced over a period of thirty years. By the end of the course participants will have both discussed and provided an essay on relevant elements of his approach as a writer in terms of humour, social satire, religious faith, war,Englishness and non-Englishness, aesthetics, literary style, and related considerations. Materials are available from the library in e-prezencka form.
Výstupy z učení
Students completing the course will have gained an understanding of Waugh's development as a writer and his relation, as a social satirist, to changing English values during the course of the first half of the twentieth century.
Osnova
  • Orientation Week: No Lesson Week 1 Sept.24th:Introductory Week 2 Oct.1st:Decline and Fall(1) Week 3 Oct 8th:Decline and Fall(2) Week 4 Oct 15th:A Handful of Dust (1) Week 5 Oct:22nd:A Handful of Dust 2) Week 6 Oct:29th:READING WEEK: NO LESSON Week 7 Nov 5th:Scoop (1) Week 8 Nov 12th:Scoop (2) Week 9 Nov 19th:Brideshead Revisited (1) Week 10 Nov 26th:Brideshead Revisited (2) Week 11 Dec.3rd: The Loved One Week 12 Dec.10th:The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1) Week 13 Dec.17th:The Ordeal of Gibert Pinfold (2)
Literatura
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead revisited :the sacred and profane memories of captain Charles Ryder. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962, 394 s. ISBN 0-14-005915-6. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold ; Tactical exercise ; Love among the ruins. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962, 223 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. A handful of dust. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951, 221 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. Scoop : a novel about journalists. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1943, 222 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. Decline and fall. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1937, 216 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy. [S.l.]: Chapman and Hall, 1919, 144 s. : i. info
Výukové metody
The course will be taught through a combination of close reading and discussion of relevant selected texts, followed by an essay providing an analysis of relevant elements of the literature covered on the course.
Metody hodnocení
The course will be assessed in terms of oral performance (40%) and essay (60%)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
Předmět je vyučován jednorázově.
Výuka probíhá každý týden.
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/predmet/phil/podzim2024/AJL14071