AJPV_SNAL Modern English Literature Seminar

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lucie Podroužková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Hoydenová
Timetable
Mon 17:05–18:45 učebna 10
Prerequisites
A course in Introduction to literature and minimum one survey course in literature.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course covers the period of the 19th century British literature, from Romanticism to Naturalism. The goal of the seminar is to acquaint students with chief works, authors and topics of the period and to develop advanced reading skills.
Syllabus
  • 1. Pre-Romanticism: Robert Burns, William Blake. 2. Lake Poets: William Wordsworth. 3. Second Generation Romnatics: P.B. Shelley, G.G. Byron, John Keats. 4. The rise of the novel: Jane Austen. 5. From Romanticism to Realism: Mary Shelley and Emily Bronte. 6. Charles Dickens. 7. Women in Victorian society: Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë and George Elliot. 8. Victorian mores: R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Wilkie Collins. 9. The Empire on which the sun never sets: Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. 10. Art for arts sake: Oscar Wilde. 11. Naturalism: Thomas Hardy, George Gissing and William Somerset Maugham. Language and society: G.B. Shaw.
Literature
  • PODROUŽKOVÁ, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature. Part II: The nineteenth century. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 176 pp. 2. vydání. ISBN 80-210-4108-8. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
attendance and class work, set reading, test
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=663
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018.
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