SylabUZ

Generate PDF for this page

Methodology of literary research - course description

General information
Course name Methodology of literary research
Course ID 09.2--FAD-MLRE-S23
Faculty Faculty of Humanities
Field of study WH - oferta ERASMUS / Filologia angielska
Education profile -
Level of studies Second-cycle Erasmus programme
Beginning semester winter term 2023/2024
Course information
Semester 1
ECTS credits to win 3
Course type obligatory
Teaching language english
Author of syllabus
  • dr Agnieszka Mobley
Classes forms
The class form Hours per semester (full-time) Hours per week (full-time) Hours per semester (part-time) Hours per week (part-time) Form of assignment
Class 30 2 - - Credit with grade

Aim of the course

Learning literary theories and methods of literary analysis and interpretation.

Prerequisites

None.

Scope

  1. Concept and choice of a method in literary studies
  2. Aesthetic literary theories
  3. Cultural literary theories
  4. Formal analysis of poetry
  5. Structuralist analysis of poetry
  6. Cultural analysis of poetry
  7. Formal analysis of drama
  8. Structuralist analysis of drama
  9. Cultural analysis of drama
  10. Deconstruction

Teaching methods

Seminar lecture, discussion, text analysis.
 

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description Outcome symbols Methods of verification The class form

Assignment conditions

Graded credit for aesthetic and cultural analysis of selected poems and plays.

Recommended reading

  1. Albee. E. 1965. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.
  2. Axelrod, S. G. et. al. 2012. The New Anthology of American Poetry Vol. 3, Postmodernisms 1950-present. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. – provided by the teacher
  3. Brown W. et. al. 2020. The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights 1970 – 2020. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. – provided by the teacher
  4. Hall, D. 2001. Literary and Cultural Theory: from Basic Principles to Advanced Applications. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. – provided by the teacher
  5. Keniston, A. and Gray, J. 2016. American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology. McFarland. – provided by the teacher
  6. Shepherd, S. and Wallis M. 2010. Stydying Plays. Bloomsbury Academic. – provided by the teacher

Further reading

  1. Bartens, J. W. 2004. Literary Theory: the Basics. London and New York: Routledge.
  2. Rivikin, J. et. Al. 2017. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Malden: Wiley Blackwell.

Notes

None.


Modified by dr Agnieszka Mobley (last modification: 26-04-2023 19:35)