AJL56013 Approaches to Developments in Modern British and Global Contemporary Culture and Related Cultures

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
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 11:00–12:40 G31
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 consider aspects of the work of Manuel Castells and Arran Gare on areas related to the development of environmental awareness, internet communication and the media, the decline of the nation-state and a consideration of related lines of consideration in aspects of Anglo-American modernist and neo-modernist poetry represented by the work of T.S Eliot, Edward Dorn and J.H. Prynne.
Learning outcomes
Students who have completed the course will have gained a broader understanding of the form and nature of global cultural change in the late twentieth century andtheir implications for life in the present century.
Syllabus
  • 1)Sept 20th: ORIENTATION WEEK: NO LESSON 2)Sept 27: Introductory 3)Oct 4th: Manuel Castells:The Rise of the Network Society:Prologue and Ch.1-2;T.S. Eliot: The Four Quartets: Burnt Norton and East Coker 4)Oct 11th: Arran Gare:Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis:Ch.1&2; T.S Eliot: The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding 5)Oct 18th: Castells:The Rise of the Network Society;Chs.3,5,6,7; Edward Dorn: The North Atlantic Turbine: A Theory of Truth: The North Atlantic Turbine 6)Oct 25th: Gare:Ch.3; Edward Dorn: The North Atlantic Turbine: Oxford: Parts 1-6 7)Nov. 1st:READING WEEK: NO LESSON 8)Nov.8th: Castells:The Power of Identity: 1-3: J.H. Prynne: Kitchen Poems: The Numbers, Diamonds in the Air 9)Nov.15th: Gare:Ch.4; J.H.Prynne: Numbers in Time of Trouble: Sketch for a Financial Theory of the Self; A Gold Ring called Reluctance 10)Nov.22nd:Castells: Castells: Power of Identity 4-6 and conclusions;The White Stones: The Glacial Question Unsolved; A Note on Metal 11)Nov.29th:Castells: End of Millenium: 1,3,5 & Conclusions; Royal Fern; L'Exstase de M. Poher, The Ideal Star Fighter 12)Dec. 6th: Gare:Ch.5.;J.H. Prynne: Wound Response: Treatment in the Field; Of Movement Towards a Natural Place; Again in the Black Cloud 13)Dec 13th: Deleuze and Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus: Rhizome (avaliable on internet); J.H. Prynne: The Oval Window
Literature
  • Castells, Manuel The End of Millenium (2nd ed.) (2000) London, Blackwell
  • Dorn, Edward (1967) The North Atlantic Turbine London Fulcrum Press
  • Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems London Faber (1974)
  • T.S. Eliot Collected Poems
  • Castells, Manuel The Power of Identity (1997) Oxford Blackwell
  • Castells, Manuel Communication Power (2013) Oxford Oxford University Press
  • Prynne; J.H. Poems (1999) Newcastle-upon-Tyne Bloodaxe
  • Castells, Manuel The Rise of the Network Society (2nd ed.) (2000) Oxford Blackwell
  • GARE, Arran E. Postmodernism and the environmental crisis. London: Routledge. vii, 192. ISBN 0415124794. 1995. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught by a combination of group and class discussion
Assessment methods
The course will be assessed in terms of oral contribution (40%) and essay (8-12 pages)(60%). Essays should be submitted to my e-mail address in the IS.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
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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