PdF:A2MP_SOBR British literature - Course Information
A2MP_SOBR Contemporary British literature
Faculty of EducationAutumn 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
- Lower Secondary School and Language School Teacher Training in English Language (programme PdF, N-ZS)
- 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
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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