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KAA / 3BAK1
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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3BAK1
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Selected Chapters from British liter
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Long Title
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Selected Chapters from British literature
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
4
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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seminar
2
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KAA/3VKBL
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The course focuses on specific personalities, themes, movements, and periods in British literature. Unlike the comprehensive course of history of British literature, this course has a more specific character and particular topics (class, gender, authenticity, the environment, the empire) are discussed profoundly.
This course explores the phenomena of British literary modernism and postmodernism and their approaches toward authenticity, and traces the development of modern British literature through the study of its recurrent topics: from canonical texts of (early) modernist authors such as Joyce; realist social reportage by Orwell and socially critical fiction by the Angy Yong Man, to postmodern works involving postcolonial, environmental, and feminist influences and points of view.
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Requirements on student
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1. 80% attendance.
2. Preparation for seminars, reading assigned texts.
3. Active participation in literary analysis.
4. Presentations
5. Final exam
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Content
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1. Modernist narrators - Joseph Conrad
2. Modernist depictions of reality - Virginia Woolf
3. Social reality/realism in reportage - George Orwell
4. Sociální reality/realism in short fiction - Alan Sillitoe
5. Postcolonial literature - the 50s and 60s
6-7. Contemporary postcolonial literature - Zadie Smith
8-9 Environment in contemporary British fiction - Melissa Harrison
10-11. Postmodernism and gender - Jeanette Winterson.
12.-13. Postmodernism and dystopia - Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Recommended:
FORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India. New York, London: Penguin Books, 1988. ISBN 978-0-141-44116-0.
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Recommended:
LAWRENCE, D. H. Lady Chatterley´s Lover. Florence: Bantam Books, 1968.
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Recommended:
WOOLF, V. Mrs. Dalloway. London: Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1981. ISBN 9780151628605.
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Recommended:
Ishiguro, K. Never Let Me Go. London, 2005. ISBN 9781400078776.
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Recommended:
Eliot, T.S.:. The Sacred Wood: Essays on poetry and criticism. London, 1920.
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Recommended:
ELIOT, T. S. The Waste Land. In LAUTER, P. (ed.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Lexington: Mass Heath, 1994. ISBN 9780669329735.
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Recommended:
JOYCE, J. Ulysses. New York: Vintage Books, 1922.
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Recommended:
Winterson, J. Written on the Body. London, 1994. ISBN 9780679744474.
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On-line library catalogues
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Being present in classes
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26
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Books of fiction reading in a foreign language
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40
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Homework for lessons
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30
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Preparation for an exam
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30
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Total
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126
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Prerequisites
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Learning outcomes
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Knowledge - knowledge resulting from the course: |
Students are acquainted with the philosophical and artistic context of the development of 20th century British literature. Students achieve better understanding of the British literary context of the period and of the present day. |
Skills - skills resulting from the course: |
Students improve their interpretative and critical skills.
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Assessment methods
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Knowledge - knowledge achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
IC11 - Activity in lessons (in discussion, group work, etc.) |
IIB18 - Analysis of a work of art |
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Teaching methods
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Knowledge - the following training methods are used to achieve the required knowledge: |
A1 - Lecture |
B1 - Discussion |
B5 - Method of written works (final written test, reflective diaries, etc.) |
B2 - Productive work with text/image/educational source |
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