Předmět Literatura Velké Británie I (20. stol.) (AJ44011)

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Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Cíl

The course aims at an overview of the literary production in prose, poetry and drama of the twentieth century. This is only possible if we focus on important developments, streams, movements or changes of direction and sample them on some works of just a few out of the many writers active in the period.The seminars will consist of short introductory lectures and discussion of critical essays, short stories and poems. Participants will also be required to read three novels from the period by writers of their choice.Students will acquire survey knowledge of the period and develop skills of critical reading of literary texts.

Osnova

Week 1 (3 October): Modernism and the pre-WWII period, new genres;Readings: D. H. Lawrence: “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (a short story), Peter Childs: “Genres, Art and Film” in Modernism, 72-128.Week 2 (17 October): Modern British drama, war poets; Readings: John Osborne: Look Back in Anger (a play), J. L. Styan: “Twentieth-century developments and variations” in The English Stage, 360-414. Week 3 (14 November): Post-war novel, Angry Young Men; Readings: George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (a novel), Greg Londe: “Reconsidering Lucky Jim: Kingsley Amis and the Condition of England” in British Fiction after Modernism, 131-144.Week 4 (28 November): Beyond Realism, new historical fiction, post-modern challenges; Readings: A. S. Byatt: Possession: A Romance (a novel), Nick Bentley: “History, Memory and Writing” in Contemporary British Fiction, 128-59. Week 5 (12 December):Multicultural writing, feminism, plurality of voices; Readings: Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia (a novel), James Procter: “New Ethnicities, the Novel, and the Burdens of Representation” in A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction, 101-120.

Literatura

CARTER, Ronald a John MCRAE. The Routledge history of literature in English: Britain and Ireland. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury. London: Routledge, 1997. xix, 592 s. ISBN 0-415-12343-7. infoBRANNIGAN, John. Orwell to the present : literature in England, 1945-2000. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. x, 244 s. ISBN 0-333-69616-6. infoHILSKÝ, Martin. Současný britský román. [Jinočany]: H & H, 1992. 191 s. ISBN 80-85467-00-3. infoFRANKOVÁ, Milada . Britské spisovatelky na konci tisíciletí. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1999. 206 s. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, FF, č. 325. ISBN 80-210-2148-9. infoFRANKOVÁ, Milada . Britské spisovatelky na přelomu tisíciletí. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2003. Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, 347. ISBN 80-210-3290-1. infoMASSIE, Allan. The novel today :a critical guide to the British novel, 1970-1989. London: Longman, 1990. vi, 97 p. ISBN 0-582-00407-1. infoSTŘÍBRNÝ, Zdeněk. Dějiny anglické literatury. 2 [Stříbrný, 1987]. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1987. 421-837 s. infoThe Norton anthology of English literature. Edited by M. H. Abrams. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986. xlvi, 2578. ISBN 0-393-95472-2. infoThe novel today :contemporary writers on modern fiction. Edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977. 256 s. ISBN 0-7190-0677-5. infoSELDEN, Raman. A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory [27818]. Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989. ISBN 0-7450-0602-7. infoWELLEK, René a Austin WARREN. Theory of literature. 3rd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1963. 374 s. ISBN 0-14-055028-3. infoEAGLETON, Terry. Literary theory :an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983. viii, 244. ISBN 0-631-13259-7. info

Požadavky

AJ40999 Postupová zkouška || AJ41002 Anglický jazyk II

Garant

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.

Vyučující

Mgr. Tomáš Kačer, Ph.D.