FPF:UCJAALI1 English Literature 1 - Course Information
UCJAALI1 English Literature 1
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/8/0. 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 offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The course covers the period of English literature from the beginnings till Romanticism. It focuses on classic texts of English literature, such as The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, and the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama. The main stress is on the poetic and dramatic output of William Shakespeare in the context of literature of English Renaissance. Last but not least, the course will deal with the development of satire and the origins of the novel.
- Syllabus
- 1. Middle English Literature
2. Elizabethan Poetry and Drama
3. Shakespeare: sonnets
4. Shakespeare: comedies and historical plays
5. Shakespeare: tragedies
6. Metaphysical poets
7. The Restoration
8. Political Prose in the 18th Century
9. Poetry in the 18th Century
10. Origins of the Novel
11. Pre-Romanticism
12. Romanticism
- 1. Middle English Literature
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Oliveriusová, E. a kol. Dějiny anglické literatury, 1. vydání. info
- Stříbrný, Z. Dějiny anglické literatury 1, 1. vydání. info
- Stříbrný, Z. Dějiny anglické literatury 2, 1. vydání. info
- Burgess, A. English Literature. info
- Sanders, A. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. info
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Practical mastery of the subject will be tested by a written exam based on the texts analyzed.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2020, recent)
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