Sylabus
2h per week, required level of English B2 (minimum)
Requirements: attendance 70 percent, participation on discussion, giving a paper on chosen literary topic
Discussion during seminar based on detailed knowledge on required text
Aim of the course: better orientation in literary analysis (formal, stylistic and thematic)
Anotace
One semestr: Two hours per week
English Level B2
Course enables the students to orientate themselves better in Anglophone literary texts of the 20th century, to interpret various layers of chosen extracts - „close reading“
CLOSE READING ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE
This course will cover a range of twentieth-century prose written in English. Each week we will look at a brief passage from a literary work and read it closely, paying attention to style, theme and form. The aim is to deepen the linguistic knowledge of students, allowing them also to orient themselves in literary analysis.
Reading list (EXAMPLES, TEXTS WILL BE VARIED)
Raymond Carver, short stories
John Updike, short stories
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
Saul Bellow, Herzog
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Joseph Mitchell, “Up in the Old Hotel”
Mavis Gallant, short stories
Willa Cather, My Ántonia
Frank O’Connor, short stories
Selected story from New Yorker magazine (online)
Requirements: giving a paper on one chosen book, understanding effective reading strategies, full comprehension of extracts, engagement in literary discussions