AJL24261 Anglo-Welsh Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jan Čapek, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Stephen Paul Hardy, 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
Tue 14:00–15:40 G33
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
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Course objectives
The course will attempt to provide an outline of aspects of Anglo-Welsh writing, that is to say, writing in English concerned with that part of Britain primarily associated with modern day Wales but also with formerly celtic Britain in general. The literary materials covered will reach back to approximately the times of the Roman invasions and move down to the present day.
Learning outcomes
Students completing the course should have gained a better understanding of how British culture and its history is significantly informed by cultures, particularly but not exclusively, Welsh culture, operating well beyond the dominant, Romanised and Anglo-Saxon dominated south-east.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: March 2nd: Introductory Week 2: March 9th:Hugh Kearney: The British Isles: A History of Four Nations: pp. 2-34;Gawain and the Green Knight Week 3: March 16th:W. Shakespeare:King Lear; Cymbeline Week 4: March 23rd: George Herbert:Affliction;Redemption; The Flower; Love III ; Henry Vaughan:The Star; The Water-fall; I walked the other day; They are all gone into the world of light (Langland; Blake (films)) Week 5: March 30th:G.M.Hopkins:The Wreck of the Deutschland;The Windhover;Binsey Poplars;Spring and Fall; Inversnaid; No worst,there is none; To what serves mortal beauty; Carrion Comfort (No, I'll not, carrion comfort); Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves Week 6: April 6th: READING WEEK : NO CLASS Week 7: April 13th: Arthur Machen:The Great God Pan; A Fragment of Life; The Three Impostors Week 8: April 20th:John Cowper Powys: Wolf Solent(1);David Jones: The Ananthemata: Week 9: April 27th: John Cowper Powys: Wolf Solent(2); David Jones: The Anathemata: Week 10: May 4th:Emyr Humphreys: A Toy Epic: Basil Bunting: Briggflatts Week 11: May 11th:Anthony Powell: The Valley of Bones; Edward Thomas: Poems:Like the Touch of Rain; Adlestrop;Over the Hills;Aspens; At the Team Head's Brass; Gone, Gone Again; Rain; Roads;The Unknown Bird Week 12: May 18th:Raymond Williams: Border Country; R.S.Thomas: Poems: Welcome to Wales; Peasant Greeting; A Peasant; Out of the Hills; Iago Prytherch; The Welsh Hill Country; Welsh History; Welsh Landscape; Expatriate; Welsh; Welcome to Wales Week 13: May 25th:Raymond Williams: People of the Black Mountains 1: The Beginning; Geoffrey Hill: Mercian Hymns
Literature
  • VAUGHAN, Henry. The poems of Henry Vaughan. Edited by Edward Hutton. London: Selfridge, xxxiv, 318. info
  • Machen, Arthur The Great God Pan Oxford Oxford UP 2018
  • Humphreys, Emyr A Toy Epic
  • Williams, Raymond Border Country London The Hogarth Press 1960
  • Williams, Raymond People of the Black Mountains vol. 1 London Chattto & Windus 1989
  • HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Poems and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Edited by W. H. Gardner. London: Penguin Books, 1985, xii, 260 s. ISBN 0-14-042015-0. info
  • SHAKESPEARE, William. King Lear. Edited by Kenneth Muir. London and New York: Routledge, 1972, lviii, 246. ISBN 041502692X. info
  • POWYS, John Cowper. Wolf solent. New and cheaper ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933, 643 s. info
  • Sir Gawain & the green knight. Edited by J. R. R. Tolkien - E. V. Gordon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925, 211 s. info
  • VAUGHAN, Henry. The works of Henry Vaughan. Vol. 1. Edited by Leonard Cyril Martin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914, xii, 385 s. info
  • VAUGHAN, Henry. The works of Henry Vaughan. Vol. 2. Edited by Leonard Cyril Martin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914, viii, 715. info
  • HERBERT, George. The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert. Vol. 1, Verse. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart. London: [Robson], 1874, lxvi, 314. info
  • HERBERT, George. The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert. Vol. 2, Verse. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart. London: [Robson], 1874, cxlii, 237. info
  • HERBERT, George. The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert. Vol. 3, Prose. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart. London: [Robson], 1874, xviii, 498. info
Teaching methods
Teaching will be provided by a combination of intensive reading, seminar discussion and mini/lectures
Assessment methods
Aseessment will take the form of oral contribution (40%: 20% attendance and class contribution; 20% ELF contributions (five contributions required) and an essay of approximately 8-10 pages (double-spaced; print size 12).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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