ELIT1 English language literature I

Prague City University
winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Gregor Kalinowski, MA, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Course requirements for full-time students are a minimum of 75 % attendance and familiarity with the required reading demonstrated through active participation in seminars. Full-time students are also required to pass a test at the end of the first semester and an exam at the end of the second semester. Combined students are required to submit (and pass) at least two written assignments each semester, pass a test at the end of the first and an exam at the end of the second semester. The final grade is determined by coursework (50 %) and exam results (50 %).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
Course objectives (in Czech)
This is the first of two seminars providing students with an introduction to English literature. The course begins with an outline history of the key periods and figures of English literature up to the 19th Century, and then focuses on and contrasts two moments of English literature, Victorianism and Modernism. This first semester focuses on the Victorian period, in which we recognise modernity and through which we can still trace the influences of previous literary periods.
Learning outcomes (in Czech)
Students will have a clear idea of how the Victorian era figures in relation to both the 20th century and previous periods; they will be familiar with the central themes of Victorian culture and how these were variously represented in the literature; and they will have had practise of analysing prosody and close reading of prose.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • 1. Situating Victorian literature 1: an overview of key periods of English literature up to the 19th Century 2. Situating Victorian literature 2: the Romantic period in English literature (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley) 3. Situating Victorian literature 3: the social and historical background of the Victorian period I 4. Situating Victorian literature 3: the social and historical background of the Victorian period II 5. Situating Victorian literature 4: features of Victorian poetry, prose (the novel) and drama 6. Victorian figures 1: Alfred, Lord Tennyson 7. Victorian figures 2: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 8. Victorian figures 3: Robert Browning 9. Victorian figures 4: Charles Dickens I 10. Victorian figures 4: Charles Dickens II 11. Victorian figures 5: Emily Bronte 12. Victorian figures 6: Christina Rossetti 13. Victorian figures 7: Oscar Wilde
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
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