AJ16066 Country, City and Environment in British Literature

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
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: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:50–12:25 G32
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
Course objectives
The course will consider ways in which the city and country, nature and environment have been negotiated as significant elements of human experience in European and related cultures in general and in modern British literature from the time of the Renaissance down to the present day, taking into account elements of poetry, drama and the novel. A participant completing the course will be expected to have discussed and analysed aspects of these elements and their relations and to have produced an essay a precisely focused written analysis in relation to a specific piece of literature covered on the course.
Syllabus
  • Sept 18th:Orientation Week: No Lesson Week 1: Sept 25th: Introductory Week 2: Oct 2nd:Hesiod: Works and Days (Erga kai Hemerai); Lucretius: The Nature of The Universe(De Rerum Natura) Book Two Week 3: Oct 9th:W.Shakespeare: King Lear Acts 1&2 Week 4: Oct 16th: W. Shakespeare: King Lear: Acts 3-5 Week 5: Oct 23rd :Ben Jonson: To Penshurst. John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book IV; Goldsmith: The Deserted Village. Week 6: Oct:30th:NO LESSON: READING WEEK Week 7: Nov 6th: William Blake: Songs of Experience: Holy Thursday;The Chimney Sweeper; The Garden of Love;London; "Milton": Preface'And did those feet...' Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1) Week 8:Nov.13th:William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey; John Clare:Emmonsail's Heath in Winter; The Thrushes Nest; Signs of Winter; Dyke Side; Gipsies; I am; E.Bronte: Wuthering Heights (2) Week 9:Nov.20th: C.Dickens: Hard Times (1) Week 10:Nov.27th: G.M. Hopkins:Spring; The Windhover; Binsey Poplars:Edward Thomas; Adlestrop; Over the Hills; Thaw; Like the Touch of Rain C.Dickens: Hard Times (2) Week 11:Dec. 4th:T.Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd(1) Week 12:Dec 11th: D.H. Lawrence;Bavarian Gentians; Fish; Man and Bat; Snake; Lui et Elle: Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting; Ravens: T.Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd (2) Week 13:Dec.18th: J.H. Prynne: Royal Fern; J.Berger: Pig Earth: Introduction: A Question of Place; A Calf Remembered; The Value of Money (materials in e-prezencka form in library)
Literature
  • Hesiod: Works and Days
  • Lucretius: De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
  • DICKENS, Charles. Hard times. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994, vi, 268 s. ISBN 0-14-062044-3. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd. Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1993, 423 s. ISBN 1-85326-067-3. info
  • WILLIAMS, Raymond. The country and the city. London: Hogarth Press, 1993, 335 s. ISBN 0-7012-1005-2. info
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. King Lear. Edited by Kenneth Muir. London: Routledge, 1972, lviii, 246. ISBN 041502692X. info
  • HARDY, Thomas. Far from the madding crowd. London: Macmillan, 1957, 445 s. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught by a combination of discussion and close reading of the texts selected in terms of the issues they raise and the specific ways in which they do so followed by an essay at the end of the course which will provide ananalysis of aspects of a specific text covered on the course.
Assessment methods
Assessment will be in terms of oral contribution(40%) and an essay of 5-7 pages (60%)
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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