FINAL STATE EXAMINATION IN AMERICAN
LITERATURE AND STUDIES (M.A. EXAMINATION)
Concerns those who have passed State Exam I
The exam consists of two questions: literary history (30-40 min. approx.) and a discussion of a
book of literary criticism (15-20 min. approx., see List below).
Literary history:
The candidate will concentrate on explaining developmental tendencies and important
structural features of American literature. The questions will be formulated from wider areas
of topics. An independent conception and structuring of the whole answer are also assessed
(the answer does not have to follow chronological order).
Examples of areas:
- development of the American novel (narrative methods in the American novel from its
beginnings to the present; contemporary prose and its links with various traditions in the
history of the novel; types of characterization in various periods; etc.)
- development of the American drama (American versions of comedy and tragedy; American
theatre and its audience - position of theatre in public life; the language of the American
drama; interpretations of the American realities on the stage; etc.)
- development of American poetry (development of poetic forms from colonial to the present
period; the language of American poetry; Romanticism and Modernism in American poetry;
contemporary and its audiences; etc.)
- the history of American thinking about literature (puritan, romantic, transcendental, and
modernist views of literature; main directions in literary theory and critical thinking in this
century; etc.)
These are not exam questions, they should only provide orientation for the candidate as to
what will be expected of her/him. The aim of the exam is to show that one has mastered a
sufficient volume of facts and knowledge and is capable of independent and inventive
thinking.
Discussion of a book of literary criticism
The candidate will choose one monograph written in English from the list below. She/he will
concentrate on:
- general characteristic of the method and its place in the history of literary theory or criticism
- summary of the main theme of the book
- characterization of the material the work is based on
- characterization of the outer and inner structure of the work
- relation of the work to the contemporary theoretical and critical thinking
READING LIST
Primary Texts
If the title is not specified, or preceded by „from“, read the selection of texts in The Norton
Anthology, 5th ed., 1998 ( Q 470 a,b; v seznamu četby označeno N5), or 3rd ed., 1985 (N3)
where also many of the works listed below are reprinted. If the publication details of a
particular edition are specified, then this is intended only to give a general idea of the extent of
reading required where that particular author is concerned.
1. Beginnings to 1800
John Smith, from The Generall Historie of Virginia N5
Thomas Morton, from New English Canaan N5
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation N5
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity N5
Anne Bradstreet, poems N5
Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson N5
Edward Taylor, poems N5
Cotton Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World N5
Samuel Sewall, from Diary N5
Jonathan Edwards, A Divine and Supernatural Light, N5
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God N5
Images or Shadows of Divine Things N5
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography Q 92, N5
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, from The Letters from an American Farmer N5
Phillis Wheatley, poems N5
Thomas Paine, from Common Sense N5
from The Crisis N5
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence N5
The Federalist# 1, 10 N5
Philip Freneau, poems N5
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland Ef 2179
2. 1800-1865
Washington Irving, „Rip van Winkle,“ Q 69, Ef 1271, Ef 179/XXVIII., N5
„The Legend of a Sleepy Hollow“ Q 69, Ef 1271, Ef 179/XXVIII., N5
James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers Ef 1207, Ef 160 h
The Last of the Mohicans Q 315
„Notions of the Americans“ N3
William Cullen Bryant, poems N5
Edgar Allan Poe, poems Ef 1234, N5, tales Ef 223, Ef 224, Ef 225, N5, essays N5
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essays N5, Ef 100 e, k, V 358
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Q 317
Henry David Thoreau, „Resistance to Civil Government“ N5, „Life without Principle“ N5
Walden, or Life in the Woods Q 84, Ef 465, Ef 2677, N5
Margaret Fuller, from The Great Lawsuit N5
Nathaniel Hawthorne, tales Q 28, Q 395, Q 73, N5
The Scarlet Letter Q 62, Ef 1305-1310, Q 28, N5
Herman Melville, „Hawthorne and His Mosses“ N5
„Bartleby the Scrivener“ N5, Ef 454, Ef 1209, Ef 1229, Ef 1359, Ef 1675,
Ef 503, Q 112
„Benito Cereno“ N5, Ef 454, Ef 1209, Ef 1229, Ef 1359, Ef 1675, Ef 503,
Q 112
Moby Dick Q 27, Ef 1222, Ef 2545
Billy Budd Q 68, N5
3. 1865-1917
Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass Q 417, Q 61, Ef 267, N5
Democratic Vistas N5
„A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads“ N5
Emily Dickinson, poems Q 416, N5
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Q 447
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, „The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County“ Q 58, N5
from Roughing It N5
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg Q 58, N3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Q 315, Q 386, Q 63, N5
Bret Harte, „The Outcasts of Poker Flat“ N5
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham Q 319
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary Ef 2245
Kate Chopin, The Awakening Q 111, Ef 2296, N5
Henry James, „The Real Thing“ N5, Ef 466, Ef 1215, Ef 1388, Ef 1647
Daisy Miller Q 314, N5 or The American Q 391
The Portrait of a Lady Q 414, Q 438
The Turn of the Screw Q 87, Q 436, N3
The Ambassadors Q 25, Q 413, or The Wings of the Dove Q 451, or The
Golden Bowl Q 26, Q 450
Charles W. Chesnutt, The Goophered Grapevine N5
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage Q 312, Ef 1520
„The Open Boat“ Ef 1532, N5
„The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky“ Ef 1532, N5
Frank Norris, Mc Teague Q 310 or The Octopus Ef 400
Jack London, The Call of the Wild V 397, Ef 198, Ef 1284, Ef 2295
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie Q 313 or An American Tragedy Ef 369, Ef 2585
Henry Adams, from The Education of Henry Adams N5
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, „The Yellow Wallpaper“ Q 398, N5
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth Q 411 or The Age of Innocence Ef 172, Ef 2579
Willa Cather, O, Pioneers! Q 410 or My Antonia Ef 5, Ef 1326, N5
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa), Impressions of an Indian Childhood, N5
The School Days of an Indian Girl, N5
An Indian Teacher Among Indians N5
4. 1918-1945
Sherwood Anderson, Norton selection from Winesburg, Ohio Ef 491, Ef 1510, Ef 1335, N5
F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Q 221, Ef 1622
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Q 223 or The Sun Also Rises Q 399
Eugene O’Neill, one major play (N5 obsahuje A Long Day’s Journey into the Night)
Langston Hughes, poems N5
Zora Neale Hurston, Norton selection from Their Eyes Were Watching God Q 379, N5
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Q 12 or As I Lay Dying Q 14, N5
Light in August Ef 1008 or Absalom! Absalom! Q 13
Robert Frost, Selected Poems (ed.I.Hamilton) Ef 2687
Ezra Pound, Selected Poems (Faber & Faber) Ef 2246, Ef 2685
E.E. Cummings, poems N5
William Carlos Williams, poems N5
Hart Crane, Norton selection from The Bridge N5
T.S.Eliot, Collected Poems Ec 169, Ec 282, Ec 739, Mi 667, Ec 666, Ef 2512
Marianne Moore, poems N5
Wallace Stevens, Selected Poems (Faber & Faber) Ef 2686
John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath Q 222; or Of Mice and Men Ef 782, Ef 1535 and Tortilla
Flat Ef 923
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts or The Day of the Locust Q 66
Richard Wright, Native Son Q 309
5. 1945-2001
Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ef 1322 or Zoo Story Ef 1612, Q 33,
Ef 1279, Ef 2344
Sam Shepard, True West or Buried Child Ef 1915
Bernard Malamud, one collection of short stories
Leslie Marmon Silko, one novel, or Louise Erdrich, one novel
Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Ef 1372
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ef 1333
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Q 65, N5
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Ef 2271, Ef 2310, Ef 2679, N5
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Q 17, Q 318
Allen Ginsberg, poems N5
Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Poems Ef 1994, Ef 2689
Sylvia Plath, poems N5
Robert Lowell, Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, ed. M. Hofmann) Ef 2684
John Berryman, poems N5
John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror N5, Ef 2605
James Merrill, Selected Poems (Carcanet ed.) Ef 2688
Jorie Graham, Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems Ec 709, N3
Louise Glück, The Wild Iris, N3
Adrienne Rich, poems N5
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Ea 2202, Q 401, Mi 736
Norman Mailer, „The Man Who Studied Yoga“ N3
James Baldwin, Norton selection from The Fire Next Time N3
Flannery O’Connor, „Good Country People“, „The Life You Save May Be Your Own“ N5
Eudora Welty, „Petrified Man“ N5
John Cheever, „The Swimmer“ N5
Philip Roth, one novel
Saul Bellow, one novel
John Updike, one novel
John Barth, „Life Story“ N3
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 Q 325 or Gravity’s Rainbow Ef 2600 or Mason &
Dixon Q 446, Ef 2603
Toni Morrison, Beloved Q 337 or Jazz Ef 2323, Ef 2380
Michael S. Harper, poems N5 or LeRoi Jones, poems N5
N. Scott Momaday, Norton selection from The Way to Rainy Mountain N5
Maxine Hong Kingston, „No Name Woman“ N3
Don DeLillo, White Noise Q 328 ,Q 363
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Critical books
The candidate is required to choose one of the following books and provide a critical account
of
it at the examination.
Sacvan Bercovitch, Reconstructing American Literary History Da 785
Malcolm Cowley, After the Genteel Tradition V 19
Leslie Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel Da 234, Da 720, Da 959
Ihab Hassan, Radical Innocence Da 490
Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds Da 5, Da 441
R.W.B. Lewis, The American Adam Da 473
Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction D 2492, Mi 1031, V 972
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden Da 482
F.O. Matthiesen, American Renaissance Da 92, Da 420, Da 653, Da 749
Perry Miller, The American Puritans Da 423, Ef 1609
-----, The American Transcendentalists Da 445
Roy Harvey Pearce, The Continuity of American Poetry Da 416, Da 475, V 13
Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land Da 399, Da 450, Da 487, Da 534
Tony Tanner, City of Words Da 611
Hayden White, Metahistory Mi 349
T.S.Eliot, Essays (Czech Selection)
Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter F 1583
Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey Da 1122
Frank Kermode, Romantic Image, D 5158
Richard Poirier, The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections Da 1197
John Carlos Rowe, At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature Da 836
Vernon Shetley, After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America
Da 1188
Helen Vendler, Soul Says: On Recent Poetry Da 1126, Da 1185
Houston A. Baker, Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory,
Da 1254
Leo Bersani, The Culture of Redemption D 5167
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image; Cinema 2: The Time-Image
FINAL STATE EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
(M. A. EXAMINATION)
Concerns those who have passed State Exam I
The exam consists of two questions: literary history (30-40 min. approx.) and a discussion of a
book of literary criticism (15-20 min. approx., see List below)
Literary history:
The candidate will concentrate on explaining developmental tendencies and important
structural features of English literature. The question will be formulated from wider areas of
topics. An independent conception and structuring of the whole answer are also assessed (the
answer does
not have to follow chronological order).
Bring your reading list (model reading list - see below)
Examples of areas:
- development of the English novel (narrative methods in the English novel from its
beginnings to the present; contemporary prose and its links with various traditions in the
history of the novel; types of characterization in various periods; etc.)
- development of English drama (development of comedy from its beginning to the present
period; development of tragedy from its beginning to the present period; English theatre and
its audience; language of English drama from the beginning to the present period; historical
changes of the interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays; etc.)
- development of English poetry (development of poetic forms from the Middle Ages to the
present period; language of English poetry; Romanticism and Modernism in English poetry;
etc.)
- the history of English thinking about literature (renaissance, classicist, romantic and
modernist views of literature; main directions in literary theory and critical thinking in this
century; etc.)
These are not exam questions, they should only provide orientation for the candidate as to
what will be expected of her/him. The aim of the exam is to show that one has mastered a
sufficient volume of facts and knowledge and is capable of independent and inventive
thinking.
Discussion of a book of literary criticism
The candidate will choose one monograph written in English from the list below. She/he will
concentrate on:
- general characteristic of the method and its place in the history of literary theory or criticism
- summary of the main theme of the book
- characterization of the material the work is based on
- characterization of the outer and inner structure of the work
- relation of the work to the contemporary theoretical and critical thinking
List of Critical Studies:
These books are available in the departement library. Each student should study at least one of
those listed, which will be the subject of the exam, and will be able to show that she/he has
acquainted herself/himself with at least two other critical literary monographs in English or
Czech of her/his own choice that she/he will include in the list of the books read for the
exam.
READING LIST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Beowulf Ee 45, Ee 34, Ee 171
G. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales Ee 150, Ee 93
A selection of Old and Middle English literature based upon
K. Crossley-Holland (ed.), The Anglo-Saxon World, OUP 1986 („Heroic Poems“,
„Elegies“, section „The Kingdom of God“, „Dream of the Rood“) prezenčně,
Eg 519
J.B.Trapp, Medieval English Literature, OUP 1973 (one play; a selection from ME
lyrics, from ballads, Malory) prezenčně
Boris Ford (ed.), Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition, vol. 1 (Part I of The New
Pelican Guide to English Literature, Penguin 1982, pp. 387-600) prezenčně
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (recommended edition: Penguin Classics, edited by
Harrison
K. and Cooper, H.) Ee 175, Ee 189, Ee 196, Ee 174, Ee 57
T. Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy Eb 818, Eb 510, Eb 378
C. Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Eb 231, Eb 813, Eb 818, Eb 1052
The Jew of Malta Eb 8, Eb 140, Eb 707
W. Shakespeare, Sonnets Q 205, Eh 502
12 plays (e.g. 4 tragedies, 4 comedies, 2 history plays, 2 romances, etc.)
B. Jonson, Volpone Eb 650, Eb 730, Eb 788, Eb 808, Eb 814, Eb 815
J. Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Eb 768, Eb 247, Eb 447, Eb 822, Eb 1053
J. Middleton, The Changeling Eb 372
J. Ford, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore Eb 822
E. Spenser, Epithalamion prezenčně
a selection from The Faerie Queene Ec 718, Ec 674, Ec 438, Mt 162, Ec 31, Ec 695,
Ec 672
a selection from the sonnets Mt 162, Ec 31, Ec 695, Ec 672
P. Sidney, Astrophel and Stella A 431, Ec 227, prezenčně
A selection of Renaissance prose and poetry (Wyatt, Surrey, Lyly, Nash, More, etc.) A 420,
A 438, Ec 667, (A 78, A 316, A 328, A 75, A 392, A 125, Mi 796, A 317) *
J. Donne, Songs and Sonnets Ec 771, Ec 690
A selection from metaphysical poetry (Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, etc.) A 35, A 444, A 126,
viz ( )
J. Milton, Paradise Lost Ec 743, Ec 33, Ec 545, Ec 549, Ec 550
a selection from shorter poems prezenčně, Ec 33
W. Congreve, The Way of the World or Love for Love Q 219, Eb 652, Eb 52, Eb 608, Eb 446
Eb 370, Eb 721
W. Wycherley, The Country Wife Eb 684, Eb 721, Q 219, Eb 248, Eb 401
(and another Restoration drama by Etherege, Farquhar, Vanbrugh, Dryden etc.)
A. Pope, The Rape of the Lock prezenčně, Ec 697, Ec 706, Ec 688, Ec 673, Ec 664, Ec 696,
Ec 208, Ec 689, Ec 543
Essay on Criticism (extract) prezenčně, Ec 697, Ec 706, Ec 688, Ec 673, Ec 664,
Ec 696, Ec 208, Ec 689, Ec 543
A selection of eighteenth-century poetry (Dryden, Thomson, Gray, Young, etc.) A 53, A 443,
A 200, viz též ( )
A. Behn, Oroonoko Ea 3278
J. Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Ea 395, Ea 2996, Ea 3085
A Modest Proposal prezenčně, A 464, Ea 2895, Ea 3084, Mi 652
* ( ) antologie pro 14.-19. století
D. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Q 200, Ea 110 a, b
Moll Flanders Ea 2807
S. Richardson, Pamela (extract) Ea 208, Ea 2999
Clarissa (extract) Ea 120
H. Fielding, Tom Jones Q 203, Ea 2806, Ea 3077
T. Smollett, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker Ea 318 e, f, Ea 3022
L. Sterne, Tristram Shandy Ea 380, Q 220, Ea 3081
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy Ea 382
O. Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield Ea 388, Ea 3027
H. Walpole, The Castle of Otranto Q 195, Ea 216, Ea 3028
M.G. Lewis, The Monk Ea 152, Ea 2952
A. Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho Ea 116, Ea 2591, Ea 2596
J. Gay, The Beggar’s Opera Eb 718, Eb 125 h
R.B. Sheridan, The School for Scandal Eb 192, Eb 193, Eb 684, Eb 1051
R. Burns, a selection of poetry Mi 825, Ec 67, Ec 226, Ec 26, Ec 423, Ec 95
W. Blake, Songs of Innocence Ec 104, Mi 826, Ec 687, Mi 676, Ec 449
Songs of Experience Ec 104, Mi 826, Ec 687, Mi 676, Ec 449
W. Wordsworth, „Tintern Abbey“ prezenčně, Ec 119, Ec 686, Mi 677, Ec 685, Ec 245
„Ode: Intimations of Immortality“ prezenčně, Ec 119, Ec 245
from The Prelude Ec 69
preface to the 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads prezenčně, D 4818, Ec 686
S.T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Ec 156, D 308, Ec 665, Ec 126, Ec 727
„Kubla Khan“ prezenčně, Ec 665, Ec 126, Ec 727
from Biographia Literaria (Ed 156 a, b)
G.G. Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Ec 621,Ec 151
The Giaour Ec 151
The Prisoner of Chillon Ec 151
Don Juan (I, II, III) Ec 149 a, Ec 151, Ec 671
P.B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound Eb 9, Ec 676, Ec 729, Ec 684, Ec 701, V 572, Ec 478,
Ea 2212
„Ode to the West Wind“ prezenčně, Ec 676, Ec 729, Ec 684, Ec 701, V 572, Ec 478,
Ea 2212
A Defence of Poetry A 197, Ed 58, Ed 52, Ec 676, Ec 729, Ec 684, Ec 701, V 572,
Ec 478, Ea 2212
J. Keats, „Ode to a Nightingale“ prezenčně, Ec 676, Ec 763, Mi 827, Ec 730, Ec 742, Ec 7
„Ode to a Grecian Urn“ prezenčně, Ec 676, Ec 763, Mi 827, Ec 730, Ec 742, Ec 7
Eve of St Agnes Ec 676, Ec 763, Mi 827, Ec 730, Ec 742, Ec 7
A selection of nineteenth century poetry (R. Browning, E.B. Browning, A. Tennyson.
Christina Rossetti, A.C. Swinburne, E. Lear, G.M. Hopkins, etc.) A 278, A 118,
A 124 b, viz ( )
J. Austen, Pride and Prejudice Ea 144 a, Ea 2601, Ea 2955
Emma Ea 144 e, Q 320, Ea 2597, Ea 3088
M.W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Ea 2809, Ea 3089
W. Scott, The Heart of Midlothian Ea 3092, Ea 3043 (or another novel)
C. Dickens, Great Expectations Ea 133/V., Q 7, Ea 3105, Mi 895, Mi 911
David Copperfield Ea 133/VIII., Ea 3288, Ea 3308
Hard Times Ea 133/X., Ea 2958, Ea 2945, Mi 912, Ea 3104, Mi 897
W.M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair Q 9, Ea 123 k, Ea 3074 a,b,c, Mi 891
W. Collins, The Woman in White Ea 2961, 3286 or
The Moonstone Ea 1871, Ea 3200, Ea 3287
C. Brontë, Jane Eyre Q 5, Ea 252 a, Ea 2962, Ea 3090, Ea 3184
E. Brontë, Wuthering Heights Q 6, Ea 34, Ea 3091, Ea 3031, Ea 3159, Ea 2946
E. Gaskell, Mary Barton Ea 3019
G. Eliot, Silas Marner Ea 126, Q 8, Mi 941, Mi 942
The Mill on the Floss Ea 153 d, Ea 2947, Ea 3032, Mi 658
Middlemarch Ea 153 k, Ea 3095, Ea 3147, Mi 656
L. Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Q 194, Ea 591
Through the Looking-Glass Ea 2939
R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Ea 272 d, Ea 3156, Ea 3309
G. Meredith, The Egoist Ea 124 f; knihovna Britských studií
T. Hardy, The Return of the Native Ea 250 d
Tess of the d’Urbervilles Ea 250 a, Q 55, Ea 2963, Ea 3164 a,b, Ea 3101
Jude the Obscure Ea 250 c, Ea 3100, Ea 3018, Mi 660
A selection from T. Carlyle, J. Ruskin, M. Arnold, W. Pater
O. Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ea 429, Ea 3034, Mi 662, Ir 353
The Importance of Being Earnest Eb 205, Q 167, Eb 729
Salome Eb 207
J. Conrad, Heart of Darkness Q 350, Q 80, Ea 279 v, Ea 2971, Ea 3098, A 288, Ea 3312
Lord Jim or Nostromo Ea 279 d, Q 79 nebo Ea 279; Ea 3097
A. Bennett, Riceyman Steps Ea 407, Mi 955 (or another novel)
J. Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga Ea 47
H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay Ea 255/XII., Ea 3298
The Time Machine Ea 25 (or another novel)
K. Mansfield, a selection of short stories
E.M. Forster, Passage to India Ea 294 c, Q 81, Ea 3157, Ea 2844, Ea 3107
Howards End Ea 294 a, Mi 600
D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Ea 979, Ea 2630, Q 76
The Rainbow, Ea 1754, Ea 2334, Q 77
Women in Love Ea 981, Q 199, Mi 616, Ea 3305
A selection of short stories and poems Q 197
J. Joyce, Dubliners Ea 295, Q 11
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Q 78, Ea 2578, Ea 3106, Mi 584
Ulysses Q 201, Ea 2560
V. Woolf, Mrs Dalloway Ea 1490, Q 75, Mi 608, Ea 3297, Ea 3311
To the Lighthouse Ea 111, Q 10, Mi 609
Orlando Ea 1491, Ea 3172
a selection of short stories Q 196
A. Huxley, A Brave New World Ea 2443, Ea 3187(or another novel)
W.S. Maugham, a selection of short stories Ea 2312, Ea 2314
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land Q 202, Ec 737, Ef 2004, Ec 739, Mi 667, Ec 666, Ef 2512
„The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“ Ec 169, Ec 282, Ec 737, Ef 2004, Ec 739,
Mi 667, Ec 666, Ef 2512
a selection from the essays („Tradition and the Individual Talent“, etc.)
A selection of early twentieth century poetry (W.B. Yeats, S. Sassoon, W. Owen, W.H. Auden
D. Thomas, etc.) A 60, A 205, V 452, A 342, A 208, A 310, A 48, A 277, A 177,
A 157, V 459
J.M. Synge, The playboy of the Western World Eb 35 a, Eb 836, Ir 355, Ir 260, Ir 382
G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion Eb 23 and one more play
S. O’Casey, The Shadow of a Gunman, Eb 659
G. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Q 355, Ea 2932, Mi 594
a selection from the essays Q 372
G. Greene, The Power and the Glory Q 198, Ea 3261
The Honorary Consul
C.P. Snow, The Masters Mi 963
In Their Wisdom
K. Amis, Lucky Jim Ea 2580
Jake’s Thing Ea 2678
J. Wain, Hurry on Down Ea 2730, Q 371
J. Braine, Room at the Top Ea 2159, Ea 2634
A. Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Ea 2204, Mi 954 (or another novel)
W. Golding, Lord of the Flies Ea 2207
The Spire Ea 2589
L. Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet Ea 2318 + Ea 2327 + Ea 2333 + Ea 2255 ; Ea 3265
A. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange Ea 2762
D. Lessing, one novel
I. Murdoch, Black Prince or A Word Child, Q 106
M. Spark, The Ballad of Peckham Rye Ea 2930
B. Bainbridge, Bottle Factory Outing Ea 2929, Ea 3180
Injury Time Ea 2729
A. Wilson, No Laughing Matter Ea 2851, Ea 2891
B.S. Johnson, Christe Malry’s Own Double Entry Ea 3179
J.G. Farrell, Troubles Ea 2624 or The Siege of Krishnapur Q 178
J. Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman Q 171
The Collector Ea 2481
D. Lodge, Changing Places Ea 2690
Small World Ea 2751
G. Swift, Waterland Ea 2753
J. Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot Ea 2983
K. Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day Q 243, Ea 2829
S. Rushdie, Midnight’s Children Ea 2679
Shame Ea 3051
A. Carter, Nights at the Circus Ea 2746
J. Winterson, The Passion Q 262
I. McEwan, The Cement Garden Ea 2700, Ea 3053
H. Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia Knihovna britských studií
J. Osborne, Look Back in Anger Eb 299, Q 357
S. Beckett, Waiting for Godot Eb 486, Q 348
H. Pinter, The Caretaker Eb 646, Q 166
E. Bond, Lear Eb 651
T. Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Eb 522
A. Wesker, The Merchant, Eb 1101
B. Friel, Translations Eb 700
One play by C. Churchill or C. Keatley or D. Hare
A selection of post-war poetry (P. Larkin, T. Hughes, S. Heaney, T. Harrison, etc.) A 390,
A 437, A 421, Mi 809, A 290, V 462, A 361
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Critical books
M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp V 190, D 4882
Walter Allen, The English Novel D 2954
Tradition and Dream D 4237, Mi 521
Alžbětinské divadlo I Eh 412 a
Alžbětinské divadlo II Eh 412 b
Alžbětinské divadlo III Eh 412 c
F.W. Bateson, English Poetry and the English Language D 1121
David Bevington, From Mankind to Marlowe D 2728, D 2955
Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction D 2963, Mi 1032
Malcolm Bradbury, The Social Context D 4104, Mi 533
Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn
Lord David Cecil, Victorian Novelists D 2973
T.S. Eliot, Eseje
William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity Q 96
Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism D 3814
Martin Hilský, Současný britský román D 4194
Modernisté D 4892
Jan Kott, Shakespearovské črty D 2800
F.R. Leavis, Great Tradition D 2415, D 3048, Mi 1022
David Lodge, Language of Fiction D 4042
Toril Moi, Sexual / Textual Politics D 4375
Christopher Norris, Deconstruction, Theory and Practice F 1415
René Wellek, Austin Warren, Theory of Literature D 3094, D 3254, D 4024
Elaine Showalter, ed. The New Feminist Criticism Da 800
Zdeněk Stříbrný, Shakespearovi předchůdci D 2879
Shakespearovy historické hry D 2645
Martin Procházka, Romantismus a osobnost D 4778
Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel D 2839
FINAL STATE EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AND LINGUISTICS (M. A. EXAMINATION)
Státní závěrečná zkouška z anglického jazyka je zaměřena na celistvý, integrovaný pohled na
systém anglického jazyka a jeho fungování v aktu komunikace. Předpokládá znalost všech
jazykových Rovin, které byly předmětem studia v I. cyklu a v povinných seminářích pro
specializaci anglický jazyk ve II. cyklu. Kandidát má prokázat schopnost popsat a vysvětlit
jazykové jevy v širších souvislostech systémových a komunikativních z konfrontačního
hlediska (z pohledu češtiny). Své teoretické znalosti má být schopen aplikovat na samostatný
rozbor textu.
Průběh zkoušky: Zkouška trvá 60 minut a zahrnuje tři otázky. Těžištěm první jsou
základní jazykové roviny, druhá je zaměřena na oblasti probírané ve specializačních
seminářích. Třetí otázka se týká odborné monografie, kterou si kandidát zvolí sám z
předepsaného seznamu (viz příloha). Vyžaduje se charakteristika monografie a odpovědi na
některé konkrétní otázky.
SZZK probíhá v angličtině a při stanovení celkové známky se přihlíží k jazykové
úrovni kandidáta.
K SZZK ze specializace anglická lingvistika se vyžaduje prostudování dvou
monografií. U zkoušky kandidát uvede jednu monografii z odstavce A a jednu
monografii z odstavce B, z nichž komise určí jednu, která bude součástí SZZK.
A
(1) M.A.K. Halliday - R. Hasan: Cohesion in English B 1937
(2) G.N. Leech: The Principles of Pragmatics
(3) D. Crystal - D. Davy: Investigating English Style B 2474
(4) D. Bolinger: Meaning and Form B 2087
(5) R. Quirk: The Use of English B 1192
(6) B.M.H. Strang: A History of English B 1499, B 1546, B 2400
B
(1) G.N. Leech: Semantics (2nd ed.) B 2603
(2) P.H. Matthews: Morphology B 2576
(3) V. Adams: Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation B 1858, B 2355
(4) D.A. Cruse: Lexical Semantics B 2352
(5) A.C. Baugh - T. Cable: A History The English Language B 2401
(6) R. Quirk - C. Wrenn: An Old English Grammar B 2402