AJ14154 Modern Anglophone Poetry 1900-2016

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2017
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
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, 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
Timetable
Thu 15:50–17:25 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
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Course objectives
This semester's course will focus solely on the work of the singer-songwriter as poet Bob Dylan. The aim of the course will be to analyse aspects of his work, both individual songs and albums, from historical and contemporaneous, including performative and biographical, perspectives. Participants completing the course will be expected to have provided a pertinent written analysis of the nature and significance of some of these aspects and to have contributed to a meaningful oral discussion of comparable elements during the teaching stage of the course.
Learning outcomes
Participants completing the course will be expected to have achieved a greater familiarity with Dylan's life and work in general, in its various aspects, but (quite regardless of any formal knowledge of music, of which I have none) also with relations between the verbal and musical elements of the love and other forms of lyric and developments of both the musical and socio-political as well as communal and personal elements in Dylan's re-working, to a degree of unusual perceptual clarity, of various traditional strands in the relevant elements of the relevant British Isles and American song writing and performing tradition.
Syllabus
  • .Sept 21st:INDUCTION WEEK: NO LESSON 2)Sept 28th:PUBLIC HOLIDAY: NO LESSON 3)Oct 5th: Introductory 4)Oct.12th:Tomorrow Is A Long Time (only on BOOTLEG 1-3)Baby Let Me Follow You Down, Song for Woody (ALBUM: BOB DYLAN) Masters of War; A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall; Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (ALBUM:FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN); The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll; Only a Pawn in Their Game: The Times they Are A Changing(Album: THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'; Lay Down Your Weary Tune; Percy's Song (BIOGRAPH). 5)Oct 19th):All I Really Want to Do; I Don't Believe You; Chimes of Freedom;To Ramona (ALBUM: ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN)Love Minus Zero/No Limit; Hey, Mr Tambourine Man; It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding (ALBUM: BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME); Like A Rolling Stone; Desolation Row (ALBUM: HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED. Farewell Angelina; (Bootleg 1-3).I'll Keep it With Me (BIOGRAPH). 6)Oct 26th:I Want You; Visions of Johanna: Fourth Time Around; One of Us Must Know; Stuck inside A Mobile(ALBUM: BLONDE ON BLONDE); She's Your Lover Now (Bootleg 1-3);As I Went Out One Morning; All Along the Watchtower; Drifter's Escape (ALBUM: JOHN WESLEY HARDING) 7)Nov 2nd:Girl From The North Country; I Threw It All Away; Lay Lady Lay; If Not For You;(ALBUM: NASHVILLE SKY LINE)Day of the Locusts; Went to See the Gipsy; Time Passes Slowly; Sign in the Window (ALBUM: NEW MORNING)Going, Going, Gone; Dirge: Never Say Goodbye; Wedding Song (ALBUM: PLANET WAVES) 8)Nov 9th:Idiot Wind: Tangled Up in Blue; If You See Her, Say Hello, Buckets of Rain (ALBUM: BLOOD ON THE TRACKS); Hurricane; Sara (ALBUM: DESIRE)Abandoned Love (BIOGRAPH) Changing of the Guards; No Time to Think;Baby, Stop Crying; Senor: Where Are You Tonight? (ALBUM: STREET LEGAL) 9) Nov.16th: READING WEEK: NO LESSON 10)Nov 23rd:Gotta Serve Somebody: I Believe in You; Do Right To Me Me Baby (ALBUM : SLOW TRAIN COMING) 11) Nov. 30th:Caribbean Wind (BIOGRAPH) Tight Connection to Your Heart; Every Grain of Sand (SHOT OF LOVE) Dark Eyes (EMPIRE BURLESQUE);Jokerman; Neighbourhood Bully; Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight; Union Sundown (ALBUM: INFIDELS);Blind Willie McTell(ALBUM: BOOTLEG SERIES 3) 12):Dec7th: Dark Eyes (EMPIRE BURLESQUE) Brownsville Girl (KNOCKED OUT LOADED) Political World; Everything Is Broken; Most of the Time; Dignity; Series of Dreams (TELL TALE SIGNS (BOOTLEG VOL. 13) Dec.14th: To Fall in Love With You (Youtube); Love Sick;You Left Me Standing in a Doorway; Not Dark Yet; Make You Feel My Love;Highlands(ALBUM: TIME OUT OF MIND)Mississipi; Red River Shore; (BOOTLEG VOL. 8) Nettie Moore; Ain't Talkin'(MODERN TIMES); Beyond Here Lies Nothing (TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE) Scarlet Town; Tempest; Early Roman Kings; Roll on John (TEMPEST):I'm a Fool to Want You; Autumn Leaves(SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT); Stormy Weather(TRIPLICATE)
Literature
  • No Direction Home (film)
  • Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (Film)
  • The Last Waltz (Film)
  • Michael Gray: Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan (London: Continuum, 2000)
  • Ian Bell, Once Upon a Time: The Lives of Bob Dylan (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 2013
  • I'm Not There (film)
  • Ian Bell, Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing (2014)
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through a combination of small group and whole class analysis and discussion.
Assessment methods
The course will be assessed through a combination of attendance and oral contribution (40%) plus a 6-8 page essay (60%)to be submitted in hard copy form to the relevant teacher on the course.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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