A2BP_NALI English Literature of the 19th Century

Faculty of Education
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Renata Jančaříková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
A2BP_NALI/01: Tue 13:55–15:35 učebna 11, L. Podroužková
Prerequisites
A2BP_SOZK Complex Exam || A2BK_SOZK Complex Exam || AJ2BP_SOZK Complex Exam || AJ2BP_SZKO Qualifying Exam
A course in Introduction to literature and minimum one survey course in literature.
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
The course covers the period of the 19th century British literature, from Romanticism to Naturalism. The goal of the seminar is to acquaint students with chief works, authors and topics of the period and to develop advanced reading skills. In the class, we will analyse and interpret major literary texts of the period. At the end of the course the students will have been able to identify and discuss the most representative authors and their works.
Syllabus
  • 1. Pre-Romanticism: Robert Burns, William Blake.
  • 2. Lake Poets: William Wordsworth.
  • 3. Second Generation Romnatics: P.B. Shelley, G.G. Byron, John Keats.
  • 4. The rise of the novel: Jane Austen.
  • 5. From Romanticism to Realism: Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte.
  • 6. Charles Dickens.
  • 7. Women in Victorian society: Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë and George Eliot.
  • 8. Victorian mores: R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Wilkie Collins.
  • 9. The Empire on which the sun never sets: Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
  • 10. Art for art's sake: Oscar Wilde.
  • 11. Naturalism: Thomas Hardy, George Gissing and William Somerset Maugham. Language and society: G.B. Shaw.
Literature
    required literature
  • PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature, Part II. 2nd ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 2006, 176 pp. 4395/Pd-19/06-17/93. ISBN 80-210-4108-0. info
    recommended literature
  • BARNARD, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Translated by Zdeněk Beran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1997, 251 s. ISBN 8071767050. info
  • BURGESS, Anthony. English literature : a survey for students. London: Longman, 1958, 278 p. ISBN 0582552249. info
Teaching methods
close reading and textual analysis extensive reading pair and group work interactive exercises class discussions
Assessment methods
week-to-week reading, extensive independent reading attendance and class work portfolio exercise (lesson plan) moodlinka work mock test written test and interview
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1971
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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