FPF:UCJANP05 Overview of British Literature - Course Information
UCJANP05 Overview of British Literature
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, Ph.D., MA (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, Ph.D., MA
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- English in combination with another discipline (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
- English (programme FPF, N7310 Filo)
- Course objectives (in Czech)
- The aim of the course is to encourage students to have an independent, critical and rational capacity of analysis, to train students in an engaged, informed and perceptive reading of a variety of literary and non-literary texts in English, to provide students with the ability to compare texts of different kinds and different historical periods, and to teach them how to use theoretical tools and secondary sources in an independent and critical fashion.
- Syllabus (in Czech)
- This course covers the history of British literature from the beginnings to the mid-20th century. It pays attention to classical texts of British literature, e.g. Geoffrey Chaucer?s Canterbury Tales, or the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama. Particular attention is paid to the prosaic, dramatic and poetic production of post-war Britain.
Literature:
Burgess, A.: English Literature, Harlow: Longman, 1991.
Oliveriusová, E. a kol.: Dějiny anglické literatury, 1. vydání, Praha: SPN, 1988.
Sanders, A.: The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Stříbrný, Z.: Dějiny anglické literatury 1, 1. vydání, Praha: Academia, 1987.
Stříbrný, Z.: Dějiny anglické literatury 2, 1. vydání, Praha: Academia, 1988.
- This course covers the history of British literature from the beginnings to the mid-20th century. It pays attention to classical texts of British literature, e.g. Geoffrey Chaucer?s Canterbury Tales, or the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama. Particular attention is paid to the prosaic, dramatic and poetic production of post-war Britain.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2013, recent)
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