Английская литература от Лоуренса Стерна до Вирджинии Вулф

Бакалавриат 2021/2022

Статус: Курс по выбору (Филология)

Направление: 45.03.01. Филология

Кто читает: Школа филологических наук

Где читается: Факультет гуманитарных наук

Когда читается: 2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Островская Елена Сергеевна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 5

Контактные часы: 56

Full Syllabus

Abstract

“English Literature from Laurence Sterne to Virginia Woolf” is an elective course for students of literary studies. The course is organized chronologically around the major themes of English literature. It introduces works of English and American literature that are the core of the literary canon and the English academic discourse. Assessment for the course is based upon class participation an oral presentation, an essay, and a final oral examination. The course includes elements of “writing in the discipline”, the work on the essay is important as a process not just product.

Learning Objectives

● to introduce major works of the British literary canon
● to acquire methods and vocabulary of literary analysis in English
● to develop students’ Academic writing techniques.

Expected Learning Outcomes

● be able to analyze literary works in English, using proper techniques and vocabulary
● develop research and essay writing skills
● to know major works of the British literary canon

Course Contents

A journey in the context of the 18th century travel literature. Style and sensibility: history of literature in the context of history of ideas and history of emotions.
The poetry of British Romanticism and Pre-Romanticism. Poetry and visual arts. Poetry and visionarism. Poetic image and poetic symbolism. ”. Romantic ode as a genre. The formal aspect of poetry; phonics, meter, stanza.
The Two Pillars of American Poetry
Poetry of the 20th Century.
An Overview of History of British and American Literature, from 18th to 20th Century
Victorian Prose

Assessment Elements

class performance (Ungraded written assignments, class participation, discussions)
Oral presentation (graded)
Major (high-stake) quizzes
Essay
Oral examination

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 2nd module
0.16 * Essay + 0.29 * class performance (Ungraded written assignments, class participation, discussions) + 0.1 * Major (high-stake) quizzes + 0.3 * Oral examination + 0.15 * Oral presentation (graded)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Miner, P. (2012). “The Tyger”: Genesis & Evolution in the Poetry of William Blake. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.334B6C9E

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Conlon, J. J. (2019). Tradition and the Individual Talent by T. S. Eliot. Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=ers&AN=119626860
Jones, R. J. (2016). In Quest of the Self: Masquerade and Travel in the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Fielding, Smollett, Sterne. Eighteenth Century Fiction, 28(3), 620–622. https://doi.org/10.3138/ecf.2016.28.3.620
Vendler, H. (2005). Invisible Listeners : Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=273149
Vendler, H. (2010). On Whitman. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 33(3), 643. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=54293232

Course Syllabus