AJL54011 Topics in Literature: Aspects of Comparison in the Twentieth Century British Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
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
Timetable
Fri 13:00–14:40 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 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: (D.H.Lawrence)Ted Hughes 8: April 10th: Geoffrey Hill 9: April 17th: Tony Harrison 10: April 24th: Women's Poetry 11:May 1st: Irish Poetry 12:May 8th: Scottish/Welsh Poetry 13:May 15th: W.H. Auden/Popular/ Comic Poetry
Literature
    required literature
  • Eliot. T.S., Collected Poems
  • Bunting Basil, Complete Poems
  • Yeats ,W.B. Selected Poems
  • Larkin, Philip, Collected Poems
  • Prynne, J.H., Poems
  • Hardy, Thoams (The Oxford Authors)
  • Pound, Ezra, Personae: Selected Poems
  • Lawrence, D.H., The Complete 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 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)
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".
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