AJ26067 Anarchy, Violence, Perspective: Aspects of Modern Writing: 1810-2010

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
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
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Tue 16:40–18:15 G22
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course will focus primarily on fiction produced by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, George Orwell and Thomas Pynchon in relation to the course thematic, but will also be supplemented by readings of poems by William Shakespeare, Andrew Marvell, P.B.Shelley, A. H.Clough, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Tony Harrison and Peter Reading. By the end of the course participants will have produced an essay related to aspects of the analytical discussion produced in relation to the texts referred to above.Students will have practised those skills related to analytically combining and contrasting elements of fiction and poetry to a specific area of human experience from an historical perspective.
Syllabus
  • 1) Sept 21st - INDUCTION WEEK - NO CLASS 2) Sept 28th - HOLIDAY -NO CLASS 3) Oct 5th - Introductory 4) Oct 12th - Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (1); William Shakespeare: The Rape of Lucrece; Sonnet 94 5) Oct 19th - Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (2); Andrew Marvell: Horatian Ode; Nymph Complaining upon the Death of Her Faun; Mower's Song; (Upon Appleton House) 6) Oct 26th - Henry James:The Princess Casamassima Book 1; P.B.Shelley: The Mask of Anarchy; Wordsworth:The Prelude Book 10 7) Nov 2nd-Henry James: The Princess Casamassima Books 2& 3: Tennyson: In Memoriam 8) Nov 9th -Henry James : The Princess Casamassima: Books 4, 5& 6 9) Nov 16th READING WEEK - NO CLASS 10) Nov 23rd - Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent (1); A. H.Clough: Amours de Voyage 11)Nov 30th - Joesph Conrad - The Secret Agent (2); W.B.Yeats: Easter 1916: Leda and the Swan ;Seamus Heaney: Punishment, Tollund Man; Michael Longley: Wounds 12)Dec 7th: George Orwell: 1984(1); Peter Reading: Ukulele Music; Tom Pickard: Rape; Tony Harrison 'v' 13)Dec 14th:George Orwell 1984(2); Thomas Pynchon: 'V','Gravity's Rainbow''Against The Day':(extracts)
Literature
    required literature
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. Shakespeare's poems : Venus and Adonis, The rape of Lucrece, and the shorter poems. Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones - H. R. Woudhuysen. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2007, xix, 593. ISBN 9781903436875. info
  • DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. London: Penguin Books, 1994, 511 s. ISBN 014062046X. info
  • The complete works of W.H. Auden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. info
  • ORWELL, George. Nineteen eighty-four. London: Penguin Books, 1987, 325 s. ISBN 0-14-012671-6. info
  • JAMES, Henry. The Princess Casamassima. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977, 526 s. ISBN 0-14-004102-8. info
  • Conrad. The Secret Agent. Great Britain: Macmillan Press LTD, 1973, 258 s. info
  • MARVELL, Andrew. The poems of Andrew Marvell. Edited by James Reeves - Martin Seymour-Smith. London: Heinemann, 1969, vi, 195 s. ISBN 0-435-15071-5. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading and seminar discussion, including pair or group work.
Assessment methods
Assessment by end of term essay (60%) and class contribution (40%)
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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