KAN/LS/20th Century British Literature
Osnova sekce
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Projekt Rozšíření akreditace studijních oborů o kombinovanou formu studia s podporou různých forem e-learningu a dalších moderních didaktických metod
Registrační číslo projektu: CZ.1.07/2.2.00/18.0023
Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.
Twentieth-Century British Literature
Welcome to this course in twentieth-century British literature. There are three units, and your job will be to complete each unit in advance of the three tuition sessions we will have together during the semester.
The structure will be two-fold: first, you will have to read the relevant web materials (see links below), and then read the excerpts from the relevant literature (in files below). This will form the basis for your online peer discussion forums, which are a required part of the course.
The excerpts are prefaced by dates relating to the given writer's life and career and then arranged under different headings. Your job will be to try to connect these thematic headings with the excerpts that follow. In each case, you must ask yourself and your peers (in the discussion forums) do you understand the connection. What are the possible explanations? Can I connect the excerpts with what I read in the course book?
In many cases, you may not see the connection, but remember that frustration is an integral part of learning. If everything's easy, one falls asleep and learns nothing. The teaching sessions will give you the chance to air these frustrations and questions, as well as present your ideas. We learn by overcoming our frustration, and the teacher's job is to help you achieve this.
You will need to purchaseThe Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature, by Ashley Dawson (available 2013) -
Postcolonialism
The Example of Ireland
Writers covered in this unit:
George Bernard Shaw
W. B. Yeats
J. M. Synge
James Joyce
Reading
Norton materials on Imagining Ireland
W. B. Yeats, 'Easter 1916'
James Joyce, Ulysses, chapters 1 and 4
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Modernism, and After
Writers covered here:
Modernism
Joseph Conrad
Virginia Woolf
D. H. Lawrence
T. S. Eliot
The 1930s and Beyond
Evelyn Waugh
George Orwell
Graham Greene
W. H. Auden
Louis MacNeice
Reading
Norton materials on Modernism
Chapter XX from Dawson book
T. S. Eliot, 'The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock'
George Orwell, Animal Farm or Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Literature, 1950-2000
Writers covered here:
Poets
Thom Gunn
Ted Hughes
Philip Larkin
Carol Ann Duffy
Geoffrey Hill
Tony Harrison
Novelists & Dramatists
Samuel Beckett
William Golding
Julian Barnes
Ian McEwan
John Banville
Reading
Chapter XX of Dawson book.
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Thom Gunn: ‘Moly’, ‘The Man with Night Sweats’, ‘From the Wave’, ‘Considering the Snail’, ‘Black Jackets’, ‘The Hug’, ‘Street Song’
Philip Larkin: ‘An Arundel Tomb’, ‘Annus Mirabilis’, ‘Church Going’, ‘Dublinesque’, ‘High Windows’, ‘Mr Bleaney’, ‘The Explosion’, ‘The Whitsun Weddings’, ‘A Study of Reading Habits’.
(Gunn and Larkin texts available at Poemhunter)
One novel by Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan or John Banville