EVAJBL British Literature in the 20th Century

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (lecturer)
Mgr. Filip Hanzelka (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Mon 18:20–19:55 G12
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 provides an overview of the development of British literature in the latter half of the nineteenth and in the twentieth centuries with a special emphasis on the most important authors and their most important works. Individual weeks focus on the writers, movements, streams and topics of a particular period presented against the historical and cultural background of an era. The lectures will be accompanied by discussions of extracts from novels or plays, poems or short stories, both read in class and assigned as pre-class reading. At the end of the course, students should be able to understand and be able to explain, against the background of history, the trends and events in British literature from mid-nineteenth century up to now. They should be able to formulate ideas about various aspects of the most important novels of contemporary British literature and interpret extracts from these. They should be able to make connections between historical events, literary trends and individual authors. The list of authors includes Charles Dickens, George Eliot, G. B. Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, George Orwell, John Fowles and others.
Syllabus
  • 19th century novel Victorian literature Social criticism Modern realistic drama Art for art's sake Modernism Postwar literature Angry Young Men Feminist literature The campus novel Postmodernism
Literature
  • BERTENS, Johannes Willem and Joseph P. NATOLI. Encyklopedie postmodernismu. Translated by Štěpán Kaňa. Vyd. 1. Brno: Barrister & Principal, 2005, 324 s. ISBN 8086598268. info
  • Od slavíka k papouškovi :proměny britské prózy. Edited by Martin Hilský - Ladislav Nagy. Vyd. v tomto souboru 1. Brno: Host, 2002, 269 s. ISBN 80-7294-075-9. info
  • FRANKOVÁ, Milada. Britské spisovatelky na konci tisíciletí (British Women Writers at the End of the Millennium). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1999, 206 pp. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, FF, č. 325. ISBN 80-210-2148-9. info
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Modernisté :Eliot, Joyce, Woolfová, Lawrence. Vyd. 1. Praha: Torst, 1995, 269 s. ISBN 80-85639-40-8. info
  • The Oxford companion to English literature. Edited by Margaret Drabble. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, viii, 1171. ISBN 0198662211. info
  • BRADBURY, Malcolm. The modern British novel. London: Penguin Books, 1994, xvi, 515 s. ISBN 0-14-023098-X. info
  • HILSKÝ, Martin. Současný britský román. [Jinočany]: H & H, 1992, 191 s. ISBN 80-85467-00-3. info
  • LODGE, David. The art of fiction :illustrated from classic and modern texts. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992, xi, 240 s. ISBN 0-14-017492-3. info
  • MARWICK, Arthur. Culture in Britain since 1945. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1991, xiv, 206 p. ISBN 0-631-17189-455. info
  • STŘÍBRNÝ, Zdeněk. Dějiny anglické literatury. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1987, s. 421-837. info
  • The Norton anthology of English literature. Edited by M. H. Abrams. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986, xlvi, 2578. ISBN 0393954781. info
  • VANČURA, Zdeněk. Dvacet let anglického románu : 1945-1964. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1976, 113 s. URL info
  • FORSTER, E. M. Aspects of the novel. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962, 175 s. info
Assessment methods
2 written tests, oral exam
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=2292; http://www.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=2025
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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