History of English literature 1 15-HLA1-ZL
- the Old English period, characteristic features of the Old English poetry, epic poetry (Beowulf), religious poetry (The Dream of the Rood), other poetic genres;
- Middle-English literature, the romance, the fabliau and other genres of the period, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval drama;
- Renaissance drama, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's sonnets.
- mataphysical poetry, John Donne and George Herbert;
- the Puritan period and the Restoration;
poetry of the 18th century, Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Criticism);
- the beginnings of the novel (Robinson Crusoe, fragments of Tom Jones)
- gothic fiction
- the preromantic poetry of Robert Burns and William Blake
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Learning outcomes
- students are able to recognize major trends in the history of English literature till the end of the 18th century and the characteristic features of different literary genres;
- students can analayse and interpret a literary text in its historical context;
- students can understand literary texts of different literary kinds and different genres;
- students can read and understand critical texts;
- students can use critical texts in their own analysis of literary texts;
- students can present their own interpretation of literary texts and articipate in the discussion during the class;
- students can present their conclusions after the discussion in class;
- students can present the analysis of literary texts in an oral and written form;
Assessment criteria
active participation in classes, questions checking the knowledge and understanding the discussed texts, assignments testing the ability of analysisng a literary text
The course ends with a written examination (an essay, open questions)
Bibliography
The literary texts (or fragments of texts) discussed in class:
Sikorska, Liliana (ed.). 2007. An Outline History of English Literature in Texts. Vol. 1 i 2. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.
Recommended reading:
Sikorska, Liliana. 2007. A Short History of English Literature. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.
Beadle, Richard (ed.). 1994. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Cambridge: CUP.
Boitani, Piero and Jill Mann (eds). 1998. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. Cambridge: CUP.
Davis, Lennard. 1983 [1996]. Factual Fictions. The Origins of the English Novel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
de Grazia, Margreta - Stanley Wells (eds.) 2001. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge: CUP.
Gardner, Helen (ed.) 1960. Metaphysical Poets. Penguin Books
Gerrard, Christine (ed.). 2002. Eighteenth-century poetry. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Krajewska, Wanda. 1984. English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.
Krueger, Roberta (eds.). 2000. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. Cambridge: CUP.
McKeon, Michael. 1988. The Origins of the EnglishNnovel 1600-1740. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.
Punter, David. A Companion to the Gothic. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Richetti, John (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Watson, J.R. 1992. English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830. London: Loongman.
Watt, Ian. 1957 [2009]. The Rise of the Novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing.
Zbierski, Henryk. 1988. William Shakespeare. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna.
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