AJ24080 Early Modern English Literature I (culture, poetry, prose, genre innovations)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, 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
each even Monday 15:50–17:25 G31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 16 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The first part of a course concentrating on the literature of Early Modern England, the period 1500-1700. The course is based on individual study of materials provided and on written work.
Syllabus
  • * Historical Background * Rise of Early Modern Poetry * The Sixteenth-Century Chronicle: a literary anachronism Part 1: John Foxe, Edward Hall Part 2: Raphael Holinshed * Rhetoric, Poetry, Language, Learning: Sir George Puttenham, Sir Thomas Elyot * The Literary Genii of the Era: John Lyly and Sir Philip Sidney * The Ancient Models: Plautus, Seneca, and Plutarch * Early Elizabethan Drama: Gorboduc, Sir Thomas Kyd, John Lyly, George Peele * Elizabethan Popular Fiction
Literature
  • English Renaissance drama (Variant.) : The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama. info
  • The European renaissance : centres and peripheries (Orig.) : Die europäische Renaissance : Zentren und Peripherien. info
  • HILL, Tracey. Anthony Munday and civic culture : theatre, history and power in early modern London, 1580-1633. Pbk. ed. 1st pub. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009, 216 s. ISBN 9780719063831. info
  • GREYERZ, Kaspar von. Religion and culture in early modern Europe, 1500-1800. Translated by Thomas Dunlap. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, ix, 307. ISBN 9780195327656. info
  • Cultural translation in early modern Europe. Edited by Peter Burke - R. Po-chia Hsia. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, ix, 252. ISBN 9780521111713. info
  • Early modern catholicism : an anthology of primary sources. Edited by Robert S. Miola. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xii, 522. ISBN 9780199259861. info
  • Early modern tragicomedy. Edited by Subha Mukherji - Raphael Lyne. 1st pub. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007, x, 216. ISBN 9781843841302. info
  • TUTINO, Stefania. Law and conscience : Catholicism in early modern England, 1570-1625. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007, vi, 256. ISBN 9780754657712. info
  • BURKE, Peter. Die europäische Renaissance : Zentren und Peripherien. Translated by Klaus Kochmann. 1. Aufl. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2005, 342 s. ISBN 3406527965. info
  • BURKE, Peter. Languages and communities in early modern Europe. 1st pub. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xiv, 210. ISBN 0521535867. URL info
  • A companion to early modern philosophy. Edited by Steven M. Nadler. First published. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, ix, 661. ISBN 0631218009. info
  • Shakespeare and theatrical patronage in early modern England. Edited by Paul Whitfield White - Suzanne R. Westfall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, viii, 326. ISBN 0521034302. info
  • ORGEL, Stephen. The authentic Shakespeare and other problems of the early modern stage. New York: Routledge, 2002, xx, 276. ISBN 041591213X. info
  • FINDLAY, Alison. A feminist perspective on Renaissance drama. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, vi, 206 s. ISBN 0-631-20509-8. info
  • Companion to medieval and renaissance music. Edited by Tess Knighton - David Fallows. 1st pbk. Print. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, xx, 428. ISBN 0520210816. info
  • Cultural exchange between European nations during the Renaissance : proceedings of the symposium arranged in Uppsala by the Forum for Renaissance Studies of the English Department of Uppsala University, 5-7 June 1993. Edited by Gunnar Sorelius - Michael Srigley. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1994, 244 s. ISBN 9155433162. info
  • The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama : English Renaissance drama (Variant.). Edited by A. R. Braunmuller - Michael Hattaway. Reprinted. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, xvi, 456 s. ISBN 0-521-34657-6. info
  • KELLY, Rosemary. A world of change : Britain in the early modern age 1450-1700. Cheltenham: Stanley Thornes, 1987, xii, 220. ISBN 085950249X. info
  • MULLETT, Michael A. The Counter-Reformation and the Catholic Reformation in early modern Europe. 1st publ. London: Methuen, 1984, vii, 47. ISBN 0416360602. info
Teaching methods
Seminars over texts.
Assessment methods
Final essay (1500-2000 words) based on a concrete problem of early modern literature in English.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007.
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