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KFL/BL
19th and 20th Centuries British Literatu
Guarantors: PhDr. Ivona Mišterová, Ph.D.
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Course annotation
KFL/BL
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| The objective of the course is to introduce to students the literary movements in English literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Based on cultural and historical events, the first segment of the course will be devoted to the approaches, development, and characteristic aspects of Romanticism in the works the famous poets of the so-called Lake School (W. Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, R. Southey) and poets of the second Romantic wave (G.G. Byron, P.B. Shelley, J. Keats). After, the characteristics and development of Victorian literature will be examined, including essay works and novels (Ch. Dickens, W.M. Thackeray), poetry and drama. Victorian female authors will also be included and the reflection of the "fin de siecle" in literature. The second half of the course will focus on English literary work of the 20th century, and namely on the emergence of the Realist novel and short story (H.G. Wells, J. Galsworthy), Modernism (The Bloomsbury Group), the literary experiments in the work of James Joyce, the developmental tendencies of British prose (e.g. The dissatisfied youth, the new type of Novel Hero), drama (from Sean O'Casey to the absurd drama of the end of the 20th century) and poetry. By using authentic texts analyzed in practical seminars, the course is aimed at systematically developing the students' interpretational and analytical abilities. |
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Introduction: basic literary terms and critical concepts (some basic guidelines for reading literature)
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A duality in Victorian literature
Authors associated with the late Victorian Period, particularly Oscar Wilde
Victorian writing reflects the dangers and benefits to rapid industrialization, while encouraging readers to examine closely their own understanding of the era’s progress
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G. B. Shaw
Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theatre
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Literature between the Wars
Literature between the outbreak of the World War I and the beginning of the World War II with attention to cultural, political and literary contexts
- social changes
- the new conception of the human self
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Modernist experiments I:
James Joyce: a prominent contributor to the Modernist Movement
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Modernist experiments II:
Virginia Woolf: a key figure of Modernism
The Bloomsbury Group and its considerable influence on literature, philosophy, and art during World War
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Revision:
Wilde, Shaw, Galsworthy, Joyce, Woolf |
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George Orwell, an acute observer of his time, in the context of significant historic and political events
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Theatre of the Absurd: an existentialistic vision of the meaningless of human existence
Samuel Beckett and his influence on Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
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The themes of fall, guilt, corruptibility and the depravity of human nature in William Golding’s novels
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Postcolonial British Literature
Arundhati Roy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, etc.
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Revision |
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Test analysis |
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Last updated:
17.10.2024
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