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Lecturer(s)
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Nagy Ladislav, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Topics The beginnings of the English novel in the 18th century Preromantism The first generation Romantics The second generation Romantics Jane Austen, Walter Scott and others Victorian literature and the work of Charles Dickens Victorian poetry: Tennyson and Browning The prose and poetry of Thomas Hardy Literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries Modernism Literature after WWII
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
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Learning outcomes
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The purpose of the course is to provide the students with a comprehensive survey of English Literature (for the purposes of this course, "English Literature" consists of literature written in the territory of Great Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth). The course follows the development of English literature from Romanticism, focuses on the rise of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, modernism to the unusual boom of the English novel in the late twentieth century. The lecture is accompanied by seminars in which students will read the key works of English literature and will learn to interpret them on an independent basis. Besides the history of English literature the course strives to provide students with a wider picture of the cultural and political history of Great Britain and, last but not least, to give them an information basis for their future decisions on their specialisations and the choice of a B.A. thesis.
Deepening the knowledge of English literature.
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Prerequisites
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Basic knowledge of the history of English literature.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance assessment
Active participation in class, written test.
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Recommended literature
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Bradbury, Carter, McRae. The Routledge History of Literature in English. Londýn, 2001.
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Ricks et al. The Penguin History of Literature. Londýn, 1993.
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Samson, Churchill. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge, 1970.
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Sanders, A. Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford, 2004.
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Stříbrný, Z. Dějiny anglické literatury. Praha, 1987.
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