15EJEJ12 - English Literature 2

Course specification
Course title English Literature 2
Acronym 15EJEJ12
Study programme English language and literature
Module
Type of study first degree undergraduate academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
    ESPB 6.0 Status
    Condition Oblik uslovljenosti
    The goal The course aims to give a broad introduction to the literature of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries in Britain, focusing on the most notable characteristics and representatives of both poetry and prose, and keeping in mind the socio-historical context in which this literature originated.
    The outcome The course will introduce the most important genres, forms, and works of the literature of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries in Britain, enabling students to better understand the English literature in general and the literary periods that followed.
    Contents
    Contents of lectures Socio-historical context. Predecessors and formative influences of the realist novel. D. Defoe: the picaresque novel. S. Richardson: epistolary technique. H. Fielding: the novel as the comic prose epic. J. Swift: misanthropy and the parody of travelogues. T. Smollett and O. Goldsmith: picaresque and sentimental elements. The gothic novel. L. Sterne: formal experiments. Characteristics and forms of romantic poetry. W. Blake. W. Wordsworth. S. T. Coleridge. G. G. Byron. P.B. Shelley. J. Keats.
    Contents of exercises Literary analysis of excerpts from selected novels and poetry (Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, Gulliver’s Travels, Pamela, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Tristram Shandy, The Castle of Otranto, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Immortality Ode, The Thorn, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Giaour, Ode to the West Wind, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, La Belle Damme Sans Merci).
    Literature
    1. D. Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature, Ronald Press Co., 1960 (Original title)
    2. M.H. Abrams, English Romantic Poets, Oxford University Press, 1960 (Original title)
    3. I. Watt, The Rise of the Novel, UCLA Press, 2001 (Original title)
    4. John Richetti, ed. Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (Original title)
    5. Michael McKeon, The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987 (Original title)
    6. D. Puhalo, A History of XVIII Century English Literature and Romanticism, Belgrade: Naučna knjiga, 1986
    Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
    Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
    2 2
    Methods of teaching Theoretical: lectures Practice classes: Close reading analysis
    Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
    Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
    Activites during lectures Test paper
    Practical lessons Oral examination 40
    Projects
    Colloquia 60
    Seminars
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