AJ26058 Aestheticism, Decadence and Difference: Aspects of ?English? Literature and Culture, 1870-1920

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2002
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
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: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Timetable
Mon 13:20–14:05 32, Mon 14:10–14:55 32
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 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/18, only registered: 0/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/18
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives (in Czech)
The course will look at ways in which writers of both poetry and fiction (though mainly the latter) provided challenges to the social and ethical presumptions of the period,in many ways prefiguring current debates about the signicance of and relations between ethics and cultural difference (whether in terms of sexuality, ethnicity or social behaviour). Particular attention will be paid to how this is often negotiated through the creation of outrageously unusual figures, sometimes of near mythical proportions; Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Prufrock, Dorian Gray, Kim, She, Kurz, Toad of Toad Hall, Peter Pan, Alice and others. Among the writers whose work will be considered are R.L. Stevenson, B. Stoker, O. Wilde, A. Conan Doyle, G.M. Hopkins, A. Swinburne, R. Kipling, T. Hardy, H. James, J. Conrad, R. Haggard, J. Joyce, T.S. Eliot, E. Pound and W. B. Yeats
Syllabus
  • Week 1 Sept 23rd: Introductory; Week 2 Sept 30th:(Collins)Stevenson-Jekyll & Hyde;Doyle- Sherlock Holmes;Thomson -poems Week 3 Oct 7th: Stoker - Dracula; Haggard-She;Dowson, Johnson -poems Week 4 Oct 14th: Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray; Pater-Marius the Epicurean; Yeats -poems Week 7 Nov 4th: Hardy - Jude the Obscure -; Morris - News from Nowhere/Hardy -poems Week 8 Nov 11th: James - Turn of the Screw /Portrait of a Lady; Symons-poems Week 9 Nov 18th:Conrad - Heart of Darkness / Lord Jim /Eliot-poems(Prufrock) Week 10 Nov 25th Kipling - Kim;Tales fro the Hills; Buchan/Haggard - other fiction; Kipling, Davidson, Henley -poems Week 11 Dec 2nd: Joyce - Portrait of the Artist;Pound -poems(Mauberley) Week 12 Dec 9th:D.H. Lawrence - Sons & Lovers;Lawrence, Housman poems Week 13 Dec 16th:Children's literature - Alice,Peter Pan,Toad,Winnie the Pooh,Mowgli
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Examination by class contribution (30%) and essay (70%).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
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