English Literature 2 3301-L1EL2
The survey practical course in English literature concentrates English literature from Romanticism till the 21st century.
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the diachronic and synchronic description of British literature through a discussion of major periods in literary history, the presentation of key authors representing those periods as well as major literary styles and genres. The classes also allow students to discern and practice different interpretative paths that follow from different methodologies current in literary studies.
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Having completed the course, students will acquire and/or develop the skills, knowledge and competence in the following areas:
Knowledge:
The course participant will:
- know the terminology applied in British literary studies;
- have a developed awareness of the role of symbols and their role in understanding culture and reading literary texts;
- know the key features of Romantic poetry, Victorian novel, the Theatre of the Absurd and be familiar with the cultural codes of postmodernism;
- know the relation between a literary work and its social-historical context
Skills:
The aim of the course is to encourage students to read poetry and prose and teach them how to independently and creatively read and interpret literary texts.
The course participant will:
- know how to interpret, analyze, synthesize and summarize his or her knowledge of British culture and literature in its linguistic, cultural, social and historical dimension;
- be able to apply definitions and terms for the purpose of the analysis and discussion based on literary text;
- know how to select a suitable methodology in order to describe and discuss problems and issues important in literary studies;
In class discussions students acquire skills of expressing their thoughts in a clear, coherent, logical and precise manner, with the use of language which is correct grammatically, lexically and phonetically.
Social Competence:
The course participant will:
- be aware of the social and cultural importance of the knowledge of British literature;
- learn how to respect and study the European literary tradition and cultural heritage,
- become interested in understanding the diversity and complexity of other cultures and points of view.
Assessment criteria
No more than three absences are acceptable.
The criteria and the format of the final exam (and the retake) are specified by the course instructor
Bibliography
Reading List (obligatory reading):
1. William Wordsworth – “Daffodils,”
2. John Keats – “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Ode to the West Wind,”
4. George Gordon, Lord Byron - “Don Juan” (Canto 1).
5. Robert Browning - “My Last Duchess,”
6. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations.
7. T.S. Eliot – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”
8. Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness.
9. James Joyce – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
10. Ian McEwan – Atonement
11. Seamus Heaney – “Punishment”
Additional texts will be chosen by the course instructor.
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: