Course program (at the same time exam topics for this course) Výběrová zkouška z britské literatury BRL3 (britská literatura od počátku do r. 1800) nebo BRL4 (1950-2010). Zkouška se skládá ze dvou částí: A) literární historie, B) analýzy textu z programu kurzů BRL3 nebo BRL4. Z literární historie si student zvolí buď období od počátků do r. 1800 (BRL3) nebo období současné britské literatury (BRL4). Podrobné tematické okruhy ke zkoušce lze najít na moodle stránkách kurzů nebo na webových stránkách KAA. Při zkoušce z četby je třeba počítat s podrobnou analýzou tematických i formálních stránek vybraného díla (žánr, kompozice, fabule/syžet, vypravěč, prostředí, motivy a témata, hlavní a vedlejší postavy, charakteristika jazyka a stylu, symboličnost, význam díla v kontextu autorovy tvorby). Témata: BRL3 1. Old English/Anglo-Saxon Literature Authors: anonymous bards, Caedmon 2. Medieval English Literature Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer 3. William Shakespeare's plays and poetry 4. The Elizabethan Age and Jacobean Era Authors: Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Donne, George Herbert, Sir John Suckling 5. The Puritan Revolution and John Milton: John Milton Authors: John Milton, Andrew Marvell 6. Restoration Period and its Aftermath Authors: William Wycherley, George Farquhar, John Dryden, Sir George Etherege 7. The Beginnings of Novel Authors: Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding 8. Notable Satirists Authors: Alexander Pope, John Gay, Jonathan Swift 9. Sentimentalism and Gothic Fiction Authors: Laurence Sterne, Oliver Goldsmith, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe 10. Ladies in Literature Authors: Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox, Fanny Burney, Jane Austen (juvenilia only) 11. Eighteenth-century Drama Authors: John Gay, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith 12. Critical Miscelania Authors: Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift BRL4 1. Post-War fiction: class consciousness and moral issues Authors: K. Amis, A. Sillitoe, J. Wain, A. Burgess, G. Greene, I. Murdoch, W. Golding 2. The sixties and seventies in British poetry Authors: Thom Gunn, E. Jennings, P. Larkin, T. Hughes, B. Bunting, R. Caddel, R. McGough, C. Raine 3. Gender and sexual identity in the novel Authors: L. Durrell, A. Carter, J. Winterson, A. Brookner, F. Weldon, A. Hollinghurst 4. Literary form and gothic, grotesque, fantasy and science fiction writing Authors: A. Carter: J. G. Ballard, B. Bainbridge, I. McEwan, K. Ishiguro, W. Self 5. Country, nature, and (sub)urban experience Authors: B. Bainbridge, M. Amis, P. Ackroyd, G. Swift, I. Murdoch, H. Kureishi, D. Lessing 6. Ethnic identity and multiculturalism in British fiction Authors: S. Rushdie, K. Ishiguro, Timothy Mo, V. S. Naipaul, Z. Smith, A. Levy, A. Roy 7. Post-War drama: tradition and experiment Authors: S. Beckett, J. Osborne, H. Pinter, A. Ayckbourn, T. Stoppard, A. Wesker, S. Kane 8. Contemporary poetry: schools, movements, and individuals Authors: D. Dunn, R. Crawford, J. Burnside, Liz Lochhead, P. Muldoon, P. Kavanagh, D. Thomas, B. Zephaniah, Carol Ann Duffy, F. Adcock, J. Kay, G. Nichols, J. Agard 9. The Post-modern canon: origins and developments Authors: J. Fowles, M. Amis, A.S. Byatt, Z. Smith 10. Fiction and drama in the new millennium Authors: I. McEwan, J. Barnes, H. Mantel, J. Banville, A. Smith. Playwrights: H. Barker, D. Hare, C. Churchill, E. Bond, D. Edgar, H. Brenton, S. Kane, M. Ravenhill 11. British humour and satire since 1950s Authors: K. Amis, D. Lodge, E. Waugh, B. Bainbridge, M. Spark, M. Amis I. McEwan 12. Outside the "Englishness": Welsh, Irish and Scottish literature Authors: M. Spark, I. Welsh, J. Kelman, A. Gray, S. O'Faolain, W. Trevor, B. Rubens, Raymond Williams, T. Azzopardi For each topic you should read at least 1 novel/drama, or 3 short stories/essays, or 10 poems.
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