Course: Contemporary British Literature

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Course title Contemporary British Literature
Course code KAJ/YCBRL
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Dömischová Ivona, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Anténe Petr, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Contemporary British poetry Contemporary British drama Postcolonial literature, ethnic identity and multiculturalism in contemporary British literature Contemporary women writers, gender and sexual identity in contemporary British literature Postmodernism and its developmental tendencies in contemporary British literature 21st century authors and their influence on British literature The use of contemporary British texts in ELT, eventually in relation to other school subjects

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
This is a master's degree course whose aim is to broaden the horizons and understanding of contemporary British literature.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Attendance, reading assigned texts, submitting a seminar paper (essay or lesson plan).
Recommended literature
  • BRADFORD, R. The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2007.
  • HEAD, D. Modern British Fiction 1950-2000. Cambridge: CUP. 2002.
  • MARSHALL, B. K. Teaching the Postmodern: Fiction and Theory. New York: Routledge. 1992.
  • RATTANSI, A. Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP. 2011.


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