1. SylabUZ
2. Wydział Humanistyczny
3. semestr zimowy 2024/2025
4. WH - oferta ERASMUS / Filologia angielska - Program Erasmus pierwszego stopnia
5. History of English literature I

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History of English literature I - opis przedmiotu

Cel przedmiotu

In the course of lectures you will be acquainted with a selection of phenomena, authors and works in the history of English literature, from its beginning till today; literary epochs will be discussed in a chronological order to show the changes which occurred them and to explain how they influenced the literary works that appeared in each epoch. 

The literature reading course, which complements the course of lectures, will give you a chance to read, analyse and interpret a number of works from various epochs discussed in the lectures.

 

Wymagania wstępne

Zapisz zmiany

There are no formal requirements, however, at least a basic knowledge of literary analysis methods, as well as of the history of Great Britain, will be an asset.

Zakres tematyczny

Lectures: history of English literature from its beginnings till now: Anglo-Saxon heroic and religious poetry; medieval literature: medieval worldview, French influences, new genres; Renaissance: a change from the medieval worldview, the sonnet; developmentd of drama - from its medieval origins to its 'golden age'; Shakespeare; Metaphysical poetry (English Baroque); the Enlightenment: a new worldview, neoclassicism; birth of the novel in the 18th century; romanticism - its philosophical tenets; themes and formal features; Victorian times: development of the novel ; modernism - new fiction and new poetry; contemporary literature - its main features and selected representatives.

Reading classes: analysis and interpretation of the texts from the primary sources list (below), from the beginning od English literature till Romanticism.

Metody kształcenia

Lecture: formal, semi-formal, audio-visual.

Reading course: text analysis, discussion, group work.

Efekty uczenia się i metody weryfikacji osiągania efektów uczenia się

Opis efektu	Symbole efektów	Metody weryfikacji	Forma zajęć

Warunki zaliczenia

Classes: to get a credit in the literature reading course you will be expected to participate in the classes actively, i.e., show your good knowledge of the assigned primary and secondary texts by applying it to the analysis and interpretation of the texts selected for discussion. You will be also asked to do home assignements and write planned tests, the form of which will be decided by the teacher running the course.The passing threshold for tests is 60%.

Lectures: to get a credit in the course of lectures you will be expected to participate in it regularly and actively -  showing a good knowledge of the texts assigned in informal lectures. 

Exam: you will be expected to show a good knowledge of the history of English literature  (secondary sources) and of the texts discussed during the lectures and in the reading classes (primary sources). The passing threshold is 60% of its total score.

More information on the tests and the exam will be provided by the teacher running the course at the beginning of the semester.

Literatura podstawowa

Wulf and Eadwacer

Geoffrey Chaucer, The  Canterbury Tales  (The Prologue – selected fragments).

William Shakespeare – a selected play

Philip Sidney, selected sonnets (from:  Astrophil and Stella)

Edmund Spencer, selected sonnets (from: Amoretti)

William Shakespeare, selected sonnets

John Donne, The Flea, The Sun Rising, Holy Sonnets 10 and 14

George Herbert, The Collar

John Milton, On His Blindness

William Blake, The Lamb, The Tyger, The Sick Rose

Charlotte Smith, On Being Cautioned Against…

William Wordsworth, We Are Seven, The World Is Too Much with Us, Prelude

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

The list may be supplemented or slightly modified by the teacher  running the course at its beginning.

Literatura uzupełniająca

Abrams, M. H. (ed.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vols. I, W.W. Norton, New York, 1986.

Burgess, Anthony, English Literature, Longman, Harlow, 1991.

Calvo, Clara, Jean-Jacques Weber, The Literature Workbook, Routledge, London, 1998 (Rozdział 

Carter, Ronald, John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English, Routledge, London, 2002

Extra reading for the lectures:

Caedmon’s Hymn

The Dream of the Rood

Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

Robert Herrick: To the Virgins To Make Much of Time

 S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner           

 Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction, w: Norton II.

Katherine Mansfield: “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”

Wilfred Owen: Dulce and Decorum Est

T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

Additional texts for the exam:

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea

Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner

Jeanette Wintersone: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

 

 

Uwagi

None.   

Zmodyfikowane przez dr Mirosława Kubasiewicz (ostatnia modyfikacja: 28-06-2024 20:31)