AJL14071 Evelyn Waugh: Fiction: 1929-1962

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2026

The course is not taught in Autumn 2026

Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 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
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
The course will focus on the work of the famous twentieth century English novelist, Evelyn Waugh, with the aim of analysing a series of representative aspects of his fictional work, produced over a period of thirty years. By the end of the course participants will have both discussed and provided an essay on relevant elements of his approach as a writer in terms of humour, social satire, religious faith,Englishness and non-Englishness, aesthetics, literary style, and related considerations. Materials are available from the library in e-prezencka form.
Learning outcomes
Students completing the course will have gained an understanding of Waugh's development as a writer and his relation, as a social satirist, to changing English values during the course of the first half of the twentieth century.
Key topics
Orientation Week: No Lesson Week 1 Sept.24th:Introductory Week 2 Oct.1st:Decline and Fall(1) Week 3 Oct 8th:Decline and Fall(2) Week 4 Oct 15th:A Handful of Dust (1) Week 5 Oct:22nd:A Handful of Dust 2) Week 6 Oct:29th:READING WEEK: NO LESSON Week 7 Nov 5th:Scoop (1) Week 8 Nov 12th:Scoop (2) Week 9 Nov 19th:Brideshead Revisited (1) Week 10 Nov 26th:Brideshead Revisited (2) Week 11 Dec.3rd: The Loved One Week 12 Dec.10th:The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1) Week 13 Dec.17th:The Ordeal of Gibert Pinfold (2)
Study resources and literature
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. Brideshead revisited :the sacred and profane memories of captain Charles Ryder. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962, 394 s. ISBN 0-14-005915-6. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold ; Tactical exercise ; Love among the ruins. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962, 223 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. A handful of dust. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951, 221 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. Scoop : a novel about journalists. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1943, 222 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. Decline and fall. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1937, 216 s. info
  • WAUGH, Evelyn. The loved one : an Anglo-American tragedy. [S.l.]: Chapman and Hall, 1919, 144 s. : i. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
The course will be taught through a combination of close reading and discussion of relevant selected texts, followed by an essay providing an analysis of rlevant elements of the literature covered on the course.
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
The course will be assessed in terms of oral performance (40%) and essay (60%)
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught every week.
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