Sylabus
1. Pre-romanticism
2. Romanticism - philosophical, socio-cultural and historical background
3. Romantic poetry
4. Romantic fiction
5. Victorianism - philosophical, socio-cultural and historical background
6. Victorian fiction
7. Victorian poetry
8. Literature at the turn of the centuries Seminars: Poetry - W. Wordsworth - "The World Is Too Much with Us" -"I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" - "Intimations of Immortality"(extracts)- S. T. Coleridge - "Kubla Khan"- John Keats -"Ode to a Nightingale" (extracts) (the Victorian poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold will also be discussed) Novels - Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice- E. Brontë - Wuthering Heights - Ch. Dickens - Bleak House (extracts)- Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure - Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Anotace
Cílem kurzu je seznámení s reprezentativními díly britského romantismu a viktoriánského románu a rozvíjení schopnosti texty analyzovat a interpretovat.