| Course title | British Literature 1900-1950 |
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| Course code | KAA/BRL2 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 3 |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory, Compulsory-optional |
| 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 |
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| Course content |
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1. Turn of the Century Fiction a. Authors: Rudyard Kipling, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells b. Reading: Conrad: "The Secret Sharer" (1909), Heart of Darkness (1899), Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga (1922), Kipling: "The White Man's Burden" (1899), Wells: Kipps (1905) 2. Turn of the Century Poetry a. Authors: Thomas Hardy, early W. B. Yeats, Georgian poetry ? W. H. Davies, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Edward Thomas b. Reading: W. H. Davies: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), de la Mare: The Listeners (1912), Thomas: Six poems (1916) Hardy: Satires of Circumstance (1914), Masefield: "Cargoes" (1903) 3. Early Modernist Poetry a. Authors: T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats b. Reading: T. S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1910), The Wasteland (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1920), "Sailing to Byzantium" (1926) 4. Early Modernist Fiction a. Authors: D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford b. Reading: Lawrence: "The Odour of Chrysanthemums" (1911), Sons and Lovers (1913), Forster: "The Road from Colonus" (1947), "The Machine Stops" (1909), Ford: The Good Soldier (1915) 5. Women in the Modernist Canon a. Authors: Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield b. Reading: Woolf: Modern Fiction (1921), "The Mark on the Wall" (1917), Mansfield: Bliss and Other Stories (1920) 6. James Joyce a. Authors: James Joyce b. Reading: Dubliners (1914), excerpts from Ulysses (1922), Anna Livia Plurabelle (1939) 7. The Irish Renaissance a. Authors: W. B. Yeats, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey b. Reading: Yeats: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1888), "Easter 1916" (1916), Synge: Playboy of the Western World (1907), Riders to the Sea (1904), O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock (1924) 8. The Great War Poets a. Authors: Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg b. Reading: Owen: "Strange Meeting" (1919), "Dulce et Decorum Est" (1926), Brooke: "The Soldier" (1914), Sassoon: "They"(1919), "The General"(1919), "Glory of Women" (1918), Rosenberg: "Break of Day in the Trenches" 9. Prose of the 1930s and 1940s a. Authors: George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, Elizabeth Bowen b. Reading: Orwell: 1984 (1949), "Politics and the English Language", (1946); Huxley: Brave New World (1932), Waugh: Decline and Fall (1928), Bowen: The Death of the Heart (1938) 10. Auden's Circle a. Authors: W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Cecil Day-Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender b. Reading: Auden: "Musée des Beaux Arts", "Spain 1937", "September 1, 1939", "Lullaby", "Funeral Blues", MacNeice: Letters from Iceland (1937), Spender: Twenty Poems (1930), The God That Failed (1949) 11. Poetry of the 1930s and 1940s a. Authors: Dylan Thomas, Hugh McDiarmid, Arthur Koestler b. Reading: Thomas: "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower", "Fern Hill", "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night", McDiarmid: A Drunk Man Looks at a Thistle (1926) 12. British Drama till 1945 a. Authors: A. W. Pinero, J. M. Barrie, John Galsworthy, G .B. Shaw, T. S. Eliot b. Reading: Shaw: Pygmalion (1912), Saint Joan (1923), Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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| Learning outcomes |
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The course focuses on the major trends present in the literature of the first half of the 20th century. It highlights the era of WW1 and Modernism in literature, to be followed by an outline of major development and protagonists in the literature of 1930s - 1950s.
Those who have attended the course will be familiar with the most important trends in British culture studies of 20th century. |
| Prerequisites |
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The student must have taken the course of Introdution to Literature first.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Essay, Student performance
Active class participation, credit test |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2020) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2024) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): English Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: - |