AJ2301 Historie, kultura a literatura Velké Británie

Pedagogická fakulta
jaro 2021
Rozsah
0/3/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
Mgr. Zdeněk Janík, M.A., Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin
AJ2301/001: Čt 17:00–17:50 učebna 50, Z. Janík
AJ2301/002: Čt 16:00–16:50 učebna 50, Z. Janík
AJ2301/01: St 8:00–9:50 učebna 57, L. Podroužková
AJ2301/02: St 10:00–11:50 učebna 50, L. Podroužková
AJ2301/03: St 12:00–13:50 učebna 54, L. Podroužková
AJ2301/04: St 16:00–17:50 učebna 54, L. Podroužková
Předpoklady
AJ2102 Praktický jazyk 1B
Practical Language 1B
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 7 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
Students are introduced to history, literature and culture of Great Britain from the period of Roman Britain to the half of the 20th Century. The goal is to introduce important authors, literary movements, historical events and cultural context of the given period and analyze their interrelation. Students will understand how literary texts reflect historical events and cultural myths. They will learn to identify cultural values and interpret them with the purpose to enhance respect to otherness. Students will discuss the role of context, gender, race, and ethnicity in history and in forming of literary genres and topics.
Výstupy z učení
By the end of the course the student: • will be able to read and interpret literary texts in English in both the literary and historical context • will be able to grasp the interdepedence of historical development and its reflection in the arts • will have produced a given number of short response papers throughout the semester • will have read three literary works of the period
Osnova
  • 1. Britain from the Roman Occupation to Anglo-Saxon Period: the cult of warrior, Alfred the Great, Beowulf 2. The Medieval England and the Ideals of Chivalry: Feudalism and Arthurian Legends 3. From the Middle Ages to Renaissance: Geoffrey Chaucer and the Tudors 4. The World as Stage: English Reformation and Renaissance Theater 5. From Monarchy to Republic and Back: Religious schisms of the 17th Century. John Milton and Paradise Lost 6. Classicism and Enlightenment: Rise of English Novel (Daniel Defoe) 7. Romanticism: The Legacy of the French Revolution and the Revolt against the power of reason (the Lake Poets. Gothic novel) 8. Early Victorian Period and the Rise of Victorian Novel 9. British Imperialism and the Late Victorian Period. Social criticism in Charles Dickens and Robert Luis Stevenson's novels 10. The late 19th and early 20th Century. Literary Modernism 11. World War I and the Retreat of British Empire: the War poets and Virginia Woolf 12. Period between wars and World War II: Orwell's dark vision of the future
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • ALEXANDER, Michael. A history of English literature. 3rd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xx, 443. ISBN 9780230368316. info
  • EAGLE, Dorothy. The Oxford illustrated literary guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Edited by Hilary Carnell - Meic Stephens. 2nd ed. / edited by Dorothy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, vi, 322 p. ISBN 0-19-212988-025. info
    doporučená literatura
  • SANDERS, Andrew. The short Oxford history of English literature. Third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, vii, 756. ISBN 9780199263387. info
  • The Oxford illustrated history of Britain. Edited by Kenneth O. Morgan. Reissued in new covers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, xiv, 646. ISBN 0192893262. info
Výukové metody
class readings and discussions, activities, learning centres
Metody hodnocení
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: class attendance and participation, intensive and extensive reading, home and class assignments SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: test
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
http://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2542
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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2019, jaro 2020, jaro 2022, jaro 2023, jaro 2024, jaro 2025.