Přednášky - britské studie

1970

• Voting from the age of 18 – before from 21

1973

• Britain joins the EU

1979 – 1990 > Margaret Thatcher

• Modest origin, her parents had a small shop

• Studied at Cambridge – very intelligent

• Conservatives

• People should have their own property and pay taxes

• She wanted rights for people who didn’t have much

• State should contribute the least

• She diminished the right for medical abortion for women

• Economical privatization - Controversial legacy – not a great success

1989 Fall of communism

1994 – good Friday agreement

• Friday before Easter

• Special status of Norther Ireland

1999

• Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly

2016 – Brexit

Authors

Modernism

• James Joyce – Odysseus

• Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse

• D.H. Lawrence – Open talk about sex > Sons and Lovers

• T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land

- Emphasis on an individual
- Literature and art explores individual’s mind
- The focus is on the evolution of the individual
- Marx, S. Freud, G. Lyell
- What is the exploitation of an individual? – Life of the poor becomes more important than the life of a rich
- S. Freud – sexuality > Literary authors talk way more and very freely about sex
- Lyell – Geologist, that proved, that there was a history before us, that there was a change of the climate and circumstances on the planet Earth, that each geological age had a different plants and animals > diggings
- Ch. Darwin – Denied Christian dogma by saying human are of animal origin

Realism

• John Galsworthy

Poetry

• Dylan Thomas

Absurd theatre

• Harold Pinter

Postmodernism

• Hanif Kureishi

• Jean Rhys

• Jeanette Winterson

Impressionism

• Reality according to what we can see

• They went out to paint for the very first time – until then they used to paint inside