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Lecturer(s)
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Krajíčková Veronika, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introduction to time in literature. 2. William Shakespeare - Sonnets on Time. 3. Metaphysical poets and John Milton - Andrew Marvell ("To His Coy Mistress"), John Donne ("The Will", "The Funeral"), John Milton ("On Time"). 4. Romanticism 1- Graveyard Poets (Thomas Gray - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard") ,William Wordsworth ("Ode: Intimations of Immortality", "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"), William Blake ("The Chimney Sweeper" in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience). 5. Romanticism 2 -John Keats ("Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale"), Percy Bysshe Shelley ("Time"), John Clare ("The Old Year"). 6. H. G. Wells - The Time Machine. 7. Modernism - Introduction to Henri Bergson's concept of duration (Time and Free Will) and William James's specious present (Principles of Psychology). 8. T.S. Eliot - Four Quartets. 9. Paul Ricoeur - "Games with Time", "Time in Fictional Narrative" (Time and Narrative). 10. V. Woolf - Mrs Dalloway. 11. V. Woolf - Orlando. 12. V. Woolf - "A Sketch of the Past" (Woolf's memoir). 13. Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Demonstration
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Learning outcomes
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This seminar aims to familiarize students with the theme of time in English literature from Shakespeare to modernism. It focuses on literary works where time is foregrounded and represents one of the most important thematic or narrative aspects. Students will be encouraged to examine the development of the notion of time in English literature and to search for some parallels and differences in treatment of time in the discussed works, for example the nostalgia for the time passed, the attempt to capture the transience of time and immortalize the present moment. Moreover, the seminar involves discussions of theoretical concepts of time that were explored either by writers themselves or used by scholars to interpret the analysed literary works. These include Henri Bergson's notion of duration or Paul Ricoeur's definition of psychological, monumental, and mortal time.
The course participants will get some awareness about the theme of time in English literature from Shakespeare to modernism
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Prerequisites
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No prerequisites.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay
attendance (maximum 3 absences), active participation, short oral presentation (maximum 10 minutes), final essay (1,500 words) When submitting their essays, students must meet the deadline required by the teacher. If the essay fails, students have one more chance to resubmit it.
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Recommended literature
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Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. North Charleston: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. ISBN 978-1463630942.
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Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience. North Charleston: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. ISBN 1976332257.
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Eliot, Thomas S. Four Quartets. New York: Mariner, 1971. ISBN 9780156332255.
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Hilský, Martin. Modernisté. Praha: Argo, 2017. ISBN 9788025721933.
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Lee, Hermione. The Novels of Virginia Woolf. Teaneck: Holmes & Meier Pub, 1977. ISBN 978-0841903142.
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Melaney, William D. Tracing Time in Modern Literature. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. ISBN 9781786601490.
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Miller, Christopher R. The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0521863827.
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Prudente, Theresa. A Special Tender Piece of Eternity: Virginia Woolf and the Experience of Time. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008.
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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. London: Penguin, 2000. ISBN 978-0141183930.
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Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative, Volume 2. Urbana: Chicago University Press, 1990. ISBN 0226713342.
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Wells, H.G. The Time Machine. London: Penguin, 2005. ISBN 9780141439976.
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Woolf, Virginia. Moments of Being. London: Mariner, 1985. ISBN 978-0156619189.
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Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. London: Penguin, 2019. ISBN 9780241371947.
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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. London: Vintage Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-784-87085-0.
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Wordsworth, W. & Coleridge S. T. Lyrical Ballads. London: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 0140424628.
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