OKRUHY NA ŠTÁTNU SKÚŠKU

BRITSKÁ A AMERICKÁ LITERATÚRA

MAGISTERSKÝ STUPEŇ

BRITSKÁ LITERATÚRA

  1. Old English Literature (to 1066)

Historical context: Conquest of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, St. Bede

Literature: Beowulf, Heroic poetry, Christian literature (The Dream of the Rood, Caedmon’s hymn), Elegies, figures of speech

  1. Middle English Literature (1066 – 1500)

Historical context: Hundred Years War between England and France, The War of Roses – 1455 – 1485, the arrival of printing

Literature: Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, mystery plays, morality plays,

  1. Tudor Literature (1500 – 1603)

Historical context: Renaissance and Reformation, England’s place in the world, Elizabethan period

Literature: Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare – his life and works - Hamlet, Macbeth, Shakespeare’s sonnets, Shakespeare’s achievements, drama: Elizabethan theatre

  1. Stuart Literature (to 1700)

Historical context: the outbreak of the Civil War, temporary overthrow of the monarchy, James I’s reign

Literature: Metaphysical poets – John Donne – The Flea, Batter My Heart, Three Personed God, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert

John Milton – Paradise Lost, John Dryden – Mac Flecknoe, Restoration theatre

  1. Augustan Literature (to 1790)

Historical context: Enlightenment

Literature: Jonathan Swift – A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels, Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock, the emergence of the novel, Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe

  1. The Romantics: 1790 – 1837

Historical context: Romanticism and Revolution, French Revolution and its impact

Literature: “First” Romantics – William Blake – the Tyger, the Lamb, William Wordsworth – The World is Too Much With Us, S.T. Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

“Younger” Romantics - George Gordon, Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Keats

Romantic prose – Mary Shelley: Frankenstein.

  1. Victorian Literature (to 1880)

Historical context: The Victorian Age, the Industrial Revolution, growth of the British Empire

Literature: Victorian fiction: the Bronte sisters (blend of Romanticism, Realism, and Gothicism), Emily Bronte – The Wuthering Heights, High Victorian fiction – reflection of industrialized England and its values – Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist, Late Victorian literature – Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Victorian drama: Oscar Wilde, aestheticism , G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion

  1. Modernism (1914 – 1927)

Historical context: the impact of the First World War, new inventions in science, art, breaking with prevailing formal conventions of society.

Literature: Modernist fiction – Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers. Modernist poetry – W.B. Yeats, T.S Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, innovations in themes, approaches, writing techniques

  1. Postmodern fiction (second half of the 20th century)

Historical context: the position of Great Britain in the world,

Literature: Salman Rushdie – Shame, Angela Carter – The Nights at the Circus,

themes, writing techniques

FORMA SKÚŠKY: ústna

aplikácia znakov obdobia na konkrétne literárne dielo,analýza historického kontextu

študent si vyberá dve otázky: jednu zAmerickej ajednu zBritskej literatúry

Literatúra:

Alexander, M.: A History of English Literature (2nd ed.). Basingstoke.

Palgrave Macmillan. 2007.

Baštín, Š. et. al: Dejiny anglickej a americkej literatúry. Bratislava.Obzor 1993.

Drabble, M.: (ed.) The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford.Oxford University Press 2000.

McRae, J.: The Routledge History of Literature in English. London.Routledge 2003.

Rogers, P.: The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. NewYork, 2001.

Sanders, E.: The Short History of English Literature (2nd ed.) Oxford. OUP2000.

Stephen, M.: English Literature. Harlow. Pearson 2000.Thornley, G.C., Roberts, G.: An Outline of English Literature. Harlow. Longman. 1984.

Vypracoval: Mgr. Marek Hampl

10.10. 2011

AMERICKÁ LITERATÚRA

1. EARLY AMERICAN / COLONIAL LITERATURE: (1630s- 1773) William Bradford, John Smith, Anne Bradstreet, John Winthrop

Historical and cultural context: Life in Leyden, reasons for leaving for America, Pilgrim Fathers, Puritans, Social, Political, Religious life, Relationship to Indians, original idea of American dream, idea of exclusivism

2. REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE: (1773- 1800) Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin

Historical and cultural context: Fight for Independence,Boston tea party, Ideals of Enlightenment, Human Rights and Documents: Declaration of Independence, Constitution

3. ROMANTICISM: (1850-1855) Nathaniel Hawthorne, E.A. Poe,James Fenimore Cooper

Historical and cultural context: Urbanism versus Return to Nature, Expansion westwards

4. TRANSCENDENTALISM: (1830s and 1840s)Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

Historical and cultural context: Philosophy of Transcendentalism, relation to romanticism Intellectual Independence of American Nation, Idea of Americanism

5. LOCAL COLOR WRITING, REGIONALISM: Mark Twain, Bret Harte

Historical and cultural context: The tragedy of Gilded Age: Economic boom versus loss of innocence, money, business, racial issues, Conditions of black Americans

6. NATURALISM: (1880s to 1940s) Jack London, Theodore Dreiser

Historical and cultural context: Reflection of Darwin in Literature, The idea of 'the survival of the fittest' in American society

7. SOCIAL REALISM: (1930s)John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair

Historical and cultural context: Reflection of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in literature

8. MODERNISM, LOST GENERATION, IMAGISM: (WWI - WWII) Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest

Hemingway, Ezra Pound, W.C. Williams

Historical and cultural context: Political, social changes in society, inventions and modernization, Gertrude Stein, fine art: cubism, WWI, philosophy of Lost Generation, anti-tradition movement

9. SOUTHERN RENEISSANCE: (1920s and 1930s) William Faulkner, William Styron, Truman Capote

Historical and cultural context: Particularities of Southern region,decline of southern values

10. AMERICAN DRAMA: (20thcentury ) century Eugene O’ Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams

Historical and cultural context: The decline of American Dream in American drama

11. MINORITY WRITING (20th century)

Jewish literature: Saul Bellow, Afro-American literature: Toni Morison

Historical and cultural context: Particularities of minority writing in American literature

13. BEAT GENERATION:(20th century) Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,

Jack Kerouac

Historical and cultural context: Consumerism and Conformism in American society, affluent society, traditional values versus their reflection and denial in Beat Generation movement

14. ANTI -WAR TRADITION: (20th century)Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer,

William Styron:

Historical and cultural context: WWI and WWII, Korean War, absurdity of war

15. SHORT STORY: Nathaniel Hawthorne, E.E. Poe, Ernst Hemingway

Historical and cultural context: technological growth, inventions, Philosophy of Composition, Iceberg principle and other principles in short story writing

16. AMERICAN EXISTENCIALISM: (20thcentury )Ralph Ellison, J.D. Salinger, John Updike

Historical and cultural context: Philosophy of existentialism in American literature

17. POSTMODERNISM: (20th -21st century ) William Styron, Don de Lillo, Paul Austere, Vladimir Nabokov

Historical and cultural context: The Fall of Grand Narratives in literature, relativism, problems of identity, fragmentation, the media

FORMA SKÚŠKY: ústna

aplikácia znakov obdobia na konkrétne literárne dielo, analýza historického kontextu

študent si vyberá dve otázky: jednu zAmerickej ajednu zBritskej literatúry

Literatúra:

Bajánek, J.: Americká literatúra 20. storočia: Modernizmus apostmodernizmus. Bratislava. Retaas 2002.

Baštín, Š.: A Short History of American Literature. Bratislava. SPN 1976

Baštín, Š.: Reader in American Poetry, Bratislava. SPN 1976

Baštín, Š. et. al: Dejiny anglickej a americkej literatúry. Bratislava. Obzor 1993. Cinkotta, E. (ed.) The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York. Norton 2003. Hart J. (ed). The Oxford Comapnion to American Literature. New York. Oxford 1965, 1973, a latest edition

Vietorová, Nina: Texts from American literature, FF UK, Bratislava 2006

Vypracovala: Mgr. Zuzana Žilová, PhD.

10.10. 2011