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Kurs je vyučován v anglickém jazyce a veškeré informace následují anglicky. The goal of the course is to familiarise students with the development of the novel in English literature. Special attention will be paid to change of narrative techniques, philosophical background and changing status of the novel. Topics 1. Introduction and practical matters Introductory Lecture: The Novel as a Genre: Tentative Beginnings and the Mystery of its Success 2. The Rise of the Novel in the Late 17th Century 3. Eighteenth-Century English Novelists I - D. Defoe 4. Eighteenth-Century English Novelists II - H. Fielding and S. Richardson 5. Sentimental Novel - O. Goldsmith 6. Romantic Inspirations - the Rise of Gothic Novel (M. Shelley) 7. The Novel and the Victorians I - sisters Brontës 8. Modernist Novel - D. H. Lawrence 9. Twentieth-Century Novel - G. Greene (The Power and the Glory) 10. Late Twentieth-Century Novel - I. McEwen (The Cement Garden) 11. English Novel Today 12. Conclusion and evaluation