A2MP_SOBR Contemporary British literature

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Mgr. Věra Eliášová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
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 examines the development of British literature since 1945 on the background of historical, social and cultural events. In the seminars we will explore major writers and literary movements of the period as well as recurrent themes and motifs in the assigned readings. At the end of the course students will be able to recognize major figures of British literature of the 20th century, interpret complex texts in relation to the cultural and historical background, make their own connections between the assigned reading, and express their ideas in an oral and written form.
Syllabus
  • The Angry Young Men (Osborne, K. Amis, Braine, Sillitoe)
  • Male Writers since the 1960s (Fowles, Barnes, McEwen, Lodge, M. Amis, Golding, Pinter, Stoppard)
  • Female Writers since the 1960s (Winterson, Carter, Churchill, Lessing, Spark, Drabble, Murdoch)
  • Poetry and poetic movements (Hughes,Heaney, Morgan, Larkin, Thomas)
  • Irish, Welsh and Scottish Literature (Welsh, Gray, MacLaverty, Doyle)
  • New Ethnic Literatures (Kureishi, Zephaniah, Gunesekera, Smith, Rushdie, Mo, Ishiguro)
Literature
  • SANDERS, Andrew. The short Oxford history of English literature. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, vii, 756. ISBN 9780199263387. info
  • The Longman anthology of British literature. Edited by David Damrosch - Kevin J. H. Dettmar - Jennifer Wicke. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2002, xxiii, s. ISBN 032110580X. info
  • MEISEL, Perry. The myth of the modern :a study in British literature and criticism after 1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, x, 263 s. ISBN 0-300-03946-8. info
  • MANLY, John Matthews, Fred Benjamin MILLETT and Edith RICKERT. Contemporary British literature : a critical survey and 232 author-bibliographies. 3rd rev. and enl. ed. / base. London: Harcourt, Brace, 1935, xi, 556 p. info
Teaching methods
Lectures
group discussion
reading and writing assignments
group projects
Assessment methods
-attendance is not mandatory but strongly recommended
reading journal (students must submit a journal for each class)
group oral presentation (students must present once)
-written exam will include 10 questions and will only test the materials covered in class(some of them multiple choice, some of them requiring a longer response) for 10 percent each. The passmark is 70 percent.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1579
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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