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

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2007
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
Timetable
Tue 16:40–18:15 G32
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 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
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012.
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