EVAJBL British Literature in the 20th Century

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Kršková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Mon 14:10–15:45 G02
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 course provides an overview of the development of British literature from the Victorian period to the present. The lectures will be accompanied by discussions of short stories, poems and extracts from novels or plays, both read in class and assigned as pre-class reading. At the end of the course, students should be aware of important writers, works, trends and streams in British literature in the 20th century. They should be able to read literary works critically and to formulate their own interpretations in English. They should be able to find links between historical events, literary trends and individual authors. The list of authors dealt with will include Charles Dickens, G. B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Graham Greene, William Golding, John Fowles, David Lodge, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and others.
Syllabus
  • Victorian literature + Oscar Wilde Modernism Angry Young Men Drama in the 20th century Post-war realist and experimental fiction Campus novel Britain multicultural Magic realism Feminism Postmodernism Contemporary writers
Literature
  • BERTENS, Johannes Willem and Joseph P. NATOLI. Encyklopedie postmodernismu. Translated by Štěpán Kaňa. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2005, 324 s. ISBN 8086598268. info
  • Od slavíka k papouškovi :proměny britské prózy. Edited by Martin Hilský - Ladislav Nagy. Vyd. v tomto souboru 1. Brno: Host, 2002, 269 s. ISBN 80-7294-075-9. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky na konci tisíciletí (British Women Writers at the End of the Millennium). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1999, 206 pp. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, FF, č. 325. ISBN 80-210-2148-9. info
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Modernisté :Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1995, 269 s. ISBN 80-85639-40-8. info
  • The Oxford companion to English literature. Edited by Margaret Drabble. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, viii, 1171. ISBN 0198662211. info
  • BRADBURY, Malcolm. The modern British novel. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xvi, 515 s. ISBN 0-14-023098-X. info
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Současný britský román. [Jinočany]: H & H, 1992, 191 s. ISBN 80-85467-00-3. info
  • LODGE, David. The art of fiction :illustrated from classic and modern texts. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, xi, 240 s. ISBN 0-14-017492-3. info
  • MARWICK, Arthur. Culture in Britain since 1945. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1991, xiv, 206 p. ISBN 0-631-17189-455. info
  • STŘÍBRNÝ, Zdeněk. Dějiny anglické literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1987, s. 421-837. info
  • The Norton anthology of English literature. Edited by M. H. Abrams. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986, xlvi, 2578. ISBN 0393954781. info
  • VANČURA, Zdeněk. Dvacet let anglického románu : 1945-1964. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1976, 113 s. URL info
Assessment methods
2 written tests, oral exam
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=2025
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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