AJ24100 Aspects of 19th and 20th Century British Fiction

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, 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
Tue 16:00–17:40 VP
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
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Course objectives
This year's course will consider works by nineteenth and twentieth century writers which particularly focus, in different ways, on relations between gender, class, and the representation of the functioning of society and the development of forms of social ethics. This will include works by Jane Austen, Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, and Pat Barker. The aim will be to provide students with a better understanding of such relations and novelistic means of dramatising them in relation to different historical periods.
Learning outcomes
Students completing the course will have gained a more informed understanding of the development of the workings of societies depicted in the nineteenth and tentiweh centuries and the presentational strategies used to dramatise specific issues arising from them.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:Sept.18th: INDUCTION WEEK: NO CLASS Week 2:Sept.25th:Jane Austen: Emma (1) Week 3:Oct.2nd:Jane Austen: Emma (2) Week 4:Oct.9th:Henry James: The Wings of the Dove (1) Week 5:Oct.16th:Henry James: The Wings of the Dove (2) Week 6:Oct 23rd: Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier Week 7:Oct 30th: E.M. Forster: Howard's End Week 8:Nov.6th: Viriginia Woolf: The Years(ELF) Week 9:Nov.13th: READING WEEK:NO CLASS Week 10:Nov.20th: Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (e-prezencka) Week 11:Nov.27th:John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1)(e-prezencka) Week 12:Dec.4th:John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman (2)(e-prezencka) Week 13:Dec 11th:Pat Barker: Regeneration (e-prezencka)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • FORD, Ford Madox. The good soldier : a tale of passion. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 228 s. ISBN 0140005366. 1946. info
    not specified
  • Forster, E.M, Howard's End , London, Penguin, 2012
  • FOWLES, John. The french lieutenant's woman. London: Vintage. 445 s. ISBN 0099478331. 2004. info
  • The wings of the dove. Edited by Henry James. Modern Library ed. New York: Modern Library. ix, 711 p. ISBN 0679641564. 2000. info
  • Emma. Edited by Jane Austen. New York: Modern Library. 359 p. ;. ISBN 0679641084. 1995. info
  • BARKER, Pat. Regeneration. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 251 s. ISBN 0140123083. 1992. info
  • WOOLF, Virginia. The years. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 348 s. ISBN 0140185615. 1968. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of captain Charles Ryder. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. 394 s. ISBN 0140059156. 1962. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through a combination of mini-lectures, close reading, group discussion and full class discussion.
Assessment methods
Assessment will be by participation, oral contribution in class (40%),and an essay of seven to ten pages (double-spaced, type size 12)(60%. Essays should be submitted to me by e-mail and/or into the IS depository (vault) for the course. IN EITHER CASE PLEASE INFORM ME WHEN YOU SUBMIT THE ESSAY.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020.
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