Historia literatury brytyjskiej 2 4101-4ZHLBO
Kurs historii literatury brytyjskiej jest diachronicznym przeglądem kanonu literatury brytyjskiej tworzonej od okresu staro-angielskiego do czasów współczesnych. Chronologicznie ułożone teksty stanowią dla studenta mapę literackich, społecznych, historycznych i kulturowych zmian na przestrzeni wieków. Główne obszary badawcze odnoszą się do następujących problemów i autorów:
Semestr 2 - Romanticism do Modern Times
1.Romantic poetry: The mystical and social poetry of William Blake' Songs of Innocence and Experience; The Preface to Lyrical Ballads as a manifesto of English Romanticism; The Lake Poets: William Wordsworth and S.T.Coleridge and their views on nature, imagination, poetry; the second generation of English Romantics: Percy Bysshe Shelley - revolutionary idealism of his poetry; George Gordon Byron orientalism and satire of his poems; Hellenism, medievalism and art in the poetry of John Keats; Romantic novel: Mary Shelley (terror tale and myth) and Jane Austen (satire and feminism).
2.Victorian novel: Emily Bronte's multi-genre narration and symbolic/realistic composition in Wuthering Heights; Bildungsroman, social and moral criticism in Dickens' Great Expectations; Society vs the individual, utilitarian ethics in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss; Social criticism and departures from Victoria conventions in Thackeray's Vanity Fair; Morality, determinism and symbolism in Hardy's Tess
3.Victorian Poetry: A.Tennyson as a mouthpiece of Victorian controversies; Dramatic monologue convention in R.Browning's poems; the poetics of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Rossetti's poems; Nature, religion and technical acomplishment of G.M.Hopkins's poetry.
4.Twentieth century literature: The "Gay Nineties" and Aestheticism in O.Wilde's novels; Poetry of World War I (Rosenberg, Owen, Sassoon); Yeats and the Irish Revival: Irish myths, the Cabala, alchemy; Modernism in poetry: T.S.Eliot (tradition, objective correlative, irony, topicality); Imagism; Literature of ideas: G.B.Shaw, H.G.Wells, G.K.Chesterton; Modernism in the novel: narrative techniques and moral problems in Joseph Conrad's novels; Stream of consciousness and internal monologue in James Joyce and Virginia Woolf; Morality vs instincts, body vs spirit in D.H.Lawrence's expressionist novels; Utopian and dystopian vision of modern civilization in Aldous Huxley and George Orwell; Poetry of the 1930's: "Macspaunday" group, W.H.Auden, Dylan Thomas' "New Romanticism"; Developments in drama: Theatre of the Absurd and the comedy of menace: Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter; The Angry Young Men movement: John Osborn; Post-war and postmodern poetry: The Movement, The Group (Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Harrison, Raine, Morgan); Modern and Postmodern novel: Allegorical fiction in Iris Murdoch and William Golding; "Academics": M.Bradbury, D.Lodge; Experimental novelisits: A.Carter, I. MacEwan, S.Rushdie, J.Fowles.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Literatura
Polskie i angielskie podręczniki i antologie rekomendowane do programu kursu:
1.The Norton Anthology of English Literature, New York, vols.1-2
2.The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, New York, vols.1-2
3.Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature
3.M.Drabble, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford, 1985
4.A.Burgess, English Literature, Longman, 1990
5.B.Ford (ed.),The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Penguin, vols.1-9
6.M.Alexander, A History of English Literature, Macmillan, 2000
7.Cuddon, J.A., A Dictionary of Literary Terms, London & New York, 1982
8.Zgorzelski, a., Lectures on British Literature, Parts 1-3, Gdansk, 1999
9.Mroczkowski, P., Historia literatury angielskiej, Wroclaw, 1986
10.Zbierski, Henryk: 'Literatura angielska' , w: Dzieje literatur europejskich, Warszawa 1982
11.Stamirowska, Krystyna, (ed.) Współczesna powieść brytyjska, Kraków: Universitas, 1997.
12.Diniejko, A. Introduction to the Study of Literature in English. Kielce, 2005.
13.Bela Teresa, Mazur Zygmunt: A College Anthology of English Literature, Kraków,1997
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