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LAP – Close Reading Anglophone Literature

Class at Faculty of Arts |
ASZAJ0116

Syllabus

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)  

Annotation

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.