Study Programme
Course
Status of the Course
Year
ECTS Credits
Teacher
e-mail
consultation hours
Associate / Assistant
e-mail
Consultation hours
Place of Teaching
Mode of Teaching
Teaching Workload
Lectures + Seminars +
Exercises
Assessment Criteria &
Mode of Examination
Start date
Mid-Term, End-of-Term
Examinations
Final Examinations
Undergraduate Study of the English Language and Literature
Historical Survey of the English Literature
Compulsory
II
Semester
III
3
Asst. Prof. Marko Lukić
mlukic@unizd.hr
Monday 12:00 – 13:00
Zrinka Frleta
zfrleta@unizd.hr
Wednesday 10:00-11:00
Old campus, Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV./II, Zadar, Croatia
Lectures, Seminars
One hour of lecture and one hour of seminar
Continuous assessment, a final written exam
Term 1
27th November
Term 1
End date
Term 2
29th January
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Term 3
Term 4
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Learning Outcomes
Enrolment Requirements
Course Contents
Required Reading
Additional Reading
to understand and define the basic literary terms
to systematize literary periods and the most representative authors in
a chronological order
 to differentiate literary genres and identify their thematic, structural
and stylistic characteristics
 to interpret literary texts in relation to social, political and cultural
contexts they were created in
 to prepare and give a presentation on a specific topic
Students must be enrolled in the 3rd semester of undergraduate study of the
English language and literature.
The course gives an overview of the English literature from its beginnings till
the end of the 20th century taking into account social, political and cultural
contexts. Students will be given the basic stylistic characteristics of particular
epochs and periods together with their most significant representatives and an
overview of the most important literary movements, genres, styles, thematic
and formative conventions.
Abrams, M. H., Harpham, G. G., A Glossary of Literary Terms, Wadsworth
Cengage Learning, 20099
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors (SingleVolume), (eds. S. Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams, C. T. Christ and A. David), W. W.
Norton & Company; 20068 (selected parts)
Carter, R., McRae, J., The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain
and Ireland, Routledge; 20012
Sanders, A., The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford University
Press, 20043
Alexander, M., A History of English Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, 20072
Peck, J., Coyle, M., A Brief History of English Literature, Palgrave Macmillan,
2002
Internet Sources
Course Evaluation
Procedures
Conditions for Obtaining
Signatures
Mark Grading Scale
Final Grade Calculation
Students' surveys
Class attendance (max. absences allowed:4), accepted homework
assignments and oral presentation
Regular attendance and in-class participation: 1ECTS
Homework assignments: 0.5 ECTS
Oral presentation: 0.5 ECTS
Continuous assessment (mid-term and end-term exams) or a final written
exam: 1ECTS
10% - Regular attendance and active in-class participation
20% - Homework assignments
20% - Oral presentation
50% - Continuous assessment (mid-term and end-term exams) or a
final written exam (students take the final written exam if they didn’t
pass the exams during the semester, or if they are not satisfied
with the final grade)
Comments
Topics - Lectures
No.
Date
1.
2.
3.
4.
Title
Introduction; Periodization
The Old English period; The Old English poetry and prose
The Middle English period; Didactic and religious literature;
Romances, stories, fables and the lyric; The revival of
alliterative poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer, his contemporaries and followers;
Traditional ballads; Religious and secular prose; Medieval
drama
5.
The Renaissance; The early sixteenth-century poetry and
prose; Elizabethan poetry and prose
6.
Renaissance drama (Elizabethan drama, Shakespeare,
Jacobean drama)
7.
The seventeenth-century poetry and prose to the
Restoration; John Milton
8.
Restoration literature; The eighteenth-century literature (the
Literature
Abrams, M. H., Harpham, G.
G., A Glossary of Literary
Terms, Wadsworth Cengage
Learning, 20099 (pp. 250-257)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature: The Major
Authors (Single-Volume),
(eds. S. Greenblatt, M. H.
Abrams, C. T. Christ and A.
David), W. W. Norton &
Company; 20068 (pp. 1-5, 21)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 6-11,
119-120)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 173178, 283-284, 294-296)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 315328, 339-340, 343, 357-361,
494)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 332335, 456-458, 492-493)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 577596, 599-601, 637-638, 691694, 722-723)
The Norton Anthology of
first half of the 18th century)
9.
The eighteenth-century literature (the second half of the 18th
century); The beginning of the novel
10.
Romanticism; The first generation of romantic poets; Walter
Scott and prose; The second generation of romantic poets
11.
The Victorian period; The Victorian prose (the flowering of
the novel)
12.
The Victorian poetry; Aestheticism and Decadence
13.
14.
The twentieth century - The English novel to 1945
The twentieth-century poetry
15.
The English novel since 1945
Seminars
No.
Date
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
English Literature (pp. 855870, 877-878, 912-913, 11191123, 1134-1135)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 870874, 916-918, 966-967, 969970, 1196-1198, 1273-1274,
1282)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 13131327, 1329-1333)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 18591879)
The Norton Anthology of
English Literature (pp. 22712287)
Title
Introduction; Periodization
The Dream of the Rood; Beowulf (excerpt)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (excerpts)
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (excerpts)
Shakespeare (selected sonnets)
Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus (excerpt)
John Donne (selected poems)
Mid-term exam
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels (excerpt); Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Crusoe (excerpt); Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
(excerpt)
Selected poems (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats)
Charles Dickens: Hard Times (excerpt); George Eliot: The
Mill on the Floss (excerpt); Oscar Wilde: The Picture of
Dorian Gray (excerpt)
Selected poems (Tennyson, R. Browning, E. B. Browning, C.
Rossetti)
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness; James Joyce: Dubliners
(selected short stories); Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
(excerpt)
Selected poems (T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeates)
End-term exam
Literature
Teacher:
Asst. Prof. Marko Lukić
Assistant:
Zrinka Frleta