Selected Chapters of British Literature

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Teaching Results:
Knowledge:
• Acquisition of knowledge about the main development lines in the history of British literature, about their most important representatives and their works.
The course is primarily focused on acquiring knowledge in the field of development of British literature and its most important periods. In addition to gaining knowledge of the history of English literature, students will also acquire generally applicable knowledge, broaden their cultural horizon and understand the connections between socio-historical and literary phenomena and events. Based on gaining an overview of individual periods and specific literary works, students will develop personal attitudes to events and their reflections in literature. The given knowledge is also applicable in related subjects and fields of study.
Competences:
• deepening critical thinking by reading and analyzing specific literary texts;
• understanding of basic terminology in the field of literary theory and its correct use in the analysis of literary works;
• competence to characterize individual literary directions, currents and schools and to abstract these characteristics from a specific literary text;
• competence in the field of linguistic analysis of a text on the basis of knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the period.
Skills:
• skill in the application of literary text analysis procedures - determination of the external and internal structure of the text, type of narrator, classification and characterization of characters, literary space, etc.;
• ability to analyze and express a critical opinion on representative works of selected authors of individual literary directions;
• the ability to assign a literary text to a specific literary period, current or school;
• skill in the intercultural approach to literature - the influence of world literatures on British literature and vice versa.

Indicative content

Indicative content:
- Medieval Literature.
- The English Renaissance. Elizabethan Drama.
- Restoration period. The Enlightenment.
- Romanticism. Lake Poets.
- Victorian Literature.
- 20th century literature and beyond.

Support literature

Support literature:
Required:
1. ALEXANDER, Michael. A History of English Literature. Published by Palgrave Macmillan: London, . 2017,ISBN 9780230368316
2. GREENBLATT, Stephen et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Tenth ed. Published by W. W. Norton & Company: New York, 2018. ISBN 978-0393603125
3. ADAMCOVÁ, Silvia: English Literature. Published by Ekonóm: Bratislava, 2018. ISBN 978-80-225-4486-3
Optional:
1. DAMROSCH, David et al. Longman Anthology of British Literature, The Volumes 1A, 1B, and 1C, 4th edition. Published by Pearson: London, 2009. ISBN 9780205693337
2. CARTER, Ron/McRAE, John. The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain and England. Published by Routledge: London, 2021. ISBN 9781032097572

Requirements to complete the course

Requirements to complete the course:
Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Total study load (in hours):
Full-time study: 104 hours
26 hours of seminars
30 hours of preparation for the seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours of preparation for the exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

English

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 02.05.2022