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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)

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    Topic 1

    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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    Topic 2

    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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    Topic 3

    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