Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture ( Poetry, Fiction, Literary and Social Criticism, Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation)-MA Seminar 4 3301-LBS4PYP
Classes will be conducted as workshops based on the assigned reading. Students will conduct research projects which will be shared in the classroom. Some of the classes will be devoted to student-supervisor meetings to discuss the progress of the MA thesis and students' feedback.
The seminar is designed to facilitate students' MA research on a chosen subject concerning the literature and culture of the long nineteenth century. Alongside the practical information connected to writing the MA thesis, students will read and discuss texts that are indispensable for a better understanding of the cultural and social issues of the Romantic and Victorian eras. Suggested topics to be discussed during the course:
- British Romanticism: poetry and prose,
- Victorian novel and its readers,
- Victorian novel in film, om television and on stage,
- the business of Victorian publishing,
- the aesthetics of the Victorian novel,
- gender, domesticity and the Victorian novel,
- race, otherness, imperialism, colonialism and the Victorian novel,
- sensation and the fantastic and the Victorian Literature
- intellectual debates in the Victorian novel: religion and science,
- experimental form in Victorian poetry,
- the dramatic monologue,
- psychology, psychiatry, mesmerism, dreams, insanity and Victorian literature,
- Victorian mirror of history,
- the condition of England novel,
- adopting and adapting Victorian literature: stage, film, radio, television
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
Students will be able to
K_W04 Characterize on an advanced level the principles of research design in literary and culture studies with special focus on the application of methods and tools in formulating research problems
K_W05 Identify the notions and principles pertinent to intellectual property and copyright
K_W06 Characterise economic, legal and other factors relevant for various kinds of professional activities
Abilities
Students will be able to
K_U01 Apply advanced terminology and notions pertinent to the discipline (linguistics, literary studies, culture and religion studies)
K_U02 Apply advanced research methodology within literary and culture studies and English studies, respecting ethical norms and copyright law
K_U03 Apply knowledge obtained during the course of studies to account for and solve a problem, thereby completing a research task related to the discipline literary studies and/or culture and religion studies related to the study programme
K_U06 Find information in various sources and critically assess its usefulness for research related to the topic of the MA project
K_U07 Use modern technology in the process of learning and communicating with academic teachers, colleagues, representatives of various institutions and fellow participants in classes and projects, applying various channels and techniques of communication
K_U04 Analyze literary and cultural phenomena and draw generalizations on their basis in the context of societal, historical and economic factors on an advanced level
K_U06 Find information in various sources and critically assess its usefulness for research related to the topic of the MA project
K_U07 Use modern technology in the process of learning and communicating with academic teachers, colleagues, representatives of various institutions and fellow participants in classes and projects, applying various channels and techniques of communication
K_U11 Design one’s own development
Social competencies
Students will be able to
K_K02 Apply knowledge and skills obtained during the course of studies to undertake lifelong learning, as well as personal and professional development
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.
Assessment criteria
• Active participation
• Continuous assessment of assignments
To pass the 1rst semester of the MA seminar, a student needs to submit a research proposal of his/her MA thesis. To pass the 2nd semester, a student needs to write one chapter of his/her MA thesis. To pass the 3rd semester, a student needs to complete two chapters of his/her MA thesis. To pass the 4th semester, a student needs to submit a complete MA thesis.
Allowable absences: 2
Bibliography
"MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers." 8th Edition. The Modern Language Association of America, New York: 2016.
Burnham Bloom, Abigail and Mary Sanders Pollock. "Victorian Literature and Fil Adaptation." Cambria Press, 2011.
Leitch, Thomas (ed.). "The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies." OUP, 2017.
Glavin, John. "Dickens on Screen." CUP, 2003.
Guy, Josephine M. (ed.). "The Victorian Age. An Anthology of Sources and Documents." London: Routledge, 2002.
David, D. (ed.). "The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel." Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
Bristow, J. (ed.). "The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry." Cambridge: CUP, 2000.
Denisoff, D. (ed.). "The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories." Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004.
Black, J. (ed.). "The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Victorian Era." Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006.
Pike, Royston E. (ed.). "Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age." London: George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1974.
Robinson, Solveig (ed.). "A Serious Occupation. Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers." Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003.
Eigner, Edwin M., and George J. Worth (eds). Victorian Criticism of the Novel. Cambridge: CUP, 1985.
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