AJL14061 Aspects of the Twentieth Century British Short Story

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
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)
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
Mon 16:00–17:40 G23
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( AJ01002 Practical English II || AJL01002 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 3/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
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Course objectives
This semester's course will focus primarily on a selection of 'long' short stories, or novellas, by writers from the British Isles, focusing this year mainly on writers from the later part of the nineteenth and the earlier part of the twentieth century. The aim will be to explore and compare the formal elements of these fictions and relate them to the experiential areas with which they engage. By the end of the course the student will have written an essay in which they demonstrate their ability to analyse aspects of the short fiction discussed in terms of relating form to content in the ways covered in the course.During the course students will be expected to discuss ways in which formal elements of the works discussed deviate from traditional norms and the way in which these formal innovations impinge upon the authors' concern with their subject matter.
Learning outcomes
Students completing the course will have gained a basic understanding of narratology and of the narrative approach and concerns of the writers studied. This will have been developed and expressed through organised discussion and through production of a written analysis of relevant elements covered on the course.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Feb.13th: Introductory: Week 2: Feb. 20th:E.T.A. Hoffman: The Sandman:R.L. Stevenson: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde;S. Freud: The Uncanny Week 3: Feb.27th: O. Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Week 4: March 6th: T.Hardy: An Imaginative Woman; A Tragedy of Two Ambitions;On the Western Circuit; To Please His Wife Week 5 March 13th:H. James: The Aspern Papers Week 6 March 20th:H. James:The Turn of the Screw Week 7: March 27th: J. Conrad:Heart of Darkness Week 8: April 3rd:: J. Joyce: The Sisters; Araby; Eveline; A Painful Case;The Dead Week 9: April 10th: PUBLIC HOLIDAY: NO CLASS Week 10:April 17th: READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 11:April 24th: :K. Mansfield: Bliss;The Garden Party; Je Ne Parle Pas Francais; The Wind Blows; Psychology; A Dill Pickle; Something Childish But Very Natural; Daughters of the Late Colonel Week 12: May 1st: PUBLIC HOLIDAY : NO CLASS Week 13: May 8th: PUBLIC HOLIDAY: NO CLASS Week 14: May 15th: D.H. Lawrence: England My England: The Captain's Doll
Literature
  • JAMES, Henry. The turn of the screw (Obsaž.) : The Aspern papers and The turn of the screw. info
  • Hardy, Thomas Life's Little Ironies Oxford Oxford University Press 1996
  • Beckett, Samuel More Pricks Than Kicks London John Calder 1993
  • Joyce, James Dubliners London Penguin 1992
  • Lawrence, D.H. Selected Short Stories London Penguin 1982
  • MACHEN, Arthur. The great god Pan and other horror stories. Edited by Aaron Worth. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, xxxvi, 389. ISBN 9780198813163. info
  • DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The sign of four. Edited by Jeremy Page, Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 83 s. ISBN 9780194248235. info
  • In the cage. Edited by Henry James. London: Electric Book Co., 2001, 124 p. ISBN 1901843939. info
  • WILDE, Oscar. The picture of Dorian Gray. [Ware]: Wordsworth, 1992, xxxii, 194. ISBN 1-85326-015-0. info
  • CONRAD, Joseph. Heart of darkness. Edited by Paul O'Prey. London: Penguin Books, 1983, 120 s. ISBN 0-14-018090-7. info
  • STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories [Stevenson, 1979] : Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Variant.). Edited by Jenni Calder. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1979, 303 p. ; 1. ISBN 0-14-043117-909. info
  • MANSFIELD, Roger and Katherine MANSFIELD. Bliss and other stories. London: Constable, 1920, 279 s. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading, and ninety minute weekly seminar discussion including group or pairwork.
Assessment methods
Credit requirements: Class contribution (55%), essay (5-8 pages, double spaced, type size 12 (45%). Essays should be submitted to my e-mail address in the IS (33697@muni.cz) and not anywhere else. If you have not received a grade within 7 days please let me know.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=719
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