♣ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE 19th CENTURY ♣
Instructor: Mgr. Simona Hevešiová
Consultation hours: Monday 9:30-10:30 (room 238)
Lecture: Thursday 9:15-10:45 TAH-P2 (every other week)
Email: shevesiova@ukf.sk
Web: http://www.enjoy-literature.blogspot.com
(read study questions + section HELP – How to make a good presentation and Students’
Corner – ideas for presentations with specific examples and pictures from real classes)
Course Aims and Description:
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To read texts of English writers in English and have an overview of development of English
literature
To close-read and analyze the texts from the point of readers’ experience and literary terms
To apply the basic literary expressions and terms
Requirements for Credit and Assessment:
POINTS
REQUIRED ACTIVITY
100 – 95 = 1
30
Practice Tests
94 – 89 = 1,5
25
Presentation on a chosen literary text
88 – 83 = 2
25
Project “My Perspective“ – an ESSAY (3 pages) or a COLLAGE 82 – 77 = 2,5
(A3) discussing/portraying your perspective/opinions on chosen
literary works that you enjoyed most during this course with short
explanation how/whether this course enriched you personally **
Class participation + homework + attendance*
76 – 70 = 3
20
* according to the department policy, 3 or more absences result in a grade of F
** to be handed in by Dec 13, 2008!!! (Any form of plagiarism results in a grade of F!)
*** 70% out of 100% needed for taking the ORAL EXAM (examining ‘skills’ – critical thinking)
Compulsory Reading for the SEMINARS and the ORAL EXAM:
● It is essential to read all the assigned homework
Presentation and Portfolio Guidelines:
After close-reading the literary work, analyze and discuss the following elements in it:
POETRY: characters, setting, words (style), imagery, rhetorical figures, tone, symbolism,
allusion, myth, theme(s), form (genre), prosody
DRAMA + FICTION: plot and structure, setting, characters, point of view, style, tone, theme(s),
symbolism, allusions, myth, genre (type), stage properties, scenery, asides, soliloquy
Recommended Literature:
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Burgess, A. 1993. English Literature. England: Longman Group UK Limited.
Fabianová, Z. 2004. Sprievodca dielami anglickej a americkej literatúry: Nitra: Enigma
Course Outline:
Lesson
Contents
1.
Introduction.
2.
Old English and 14th Century.
3.
4.
POETRY
Geoffrey Chaucer: CANTERBURY TALES.
General Prologue, Clerk’s Tale, Miller’s Tale
5.
Renaissance Theatre.
William Shakespeare: HAMLET.
DRAMA
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7.
10.
11.
FICTION
8.
9.
Renaissance and Romantic Poetry.
William Shakespeare, John Milton: SONNETS.
William Wordsworth.
Romantic Poetry.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: THE RIME OF
THE ANCIENT MARINER.
PRACTICE TEST #1.
19th Century Theatre.
Oscar Wilde: THE IMPORTANCE OF
BEING EARNEST.
G.B. Shaw: PYGMALION.
18th Century Domestic Novel.
Jane Austen: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
Homework
CHAUCER:
Canterbury Tales
SHAKESPEARE,
MILTON: Sonnets
WORDSWORTH
COLERIDGE: The
Rime of the Ancient
Mariner.
SHAKESPEARE:
Hamlet.
WILDE: The
Importance of Being
Earnest.
SHAW: Pygmalion.
AUSTEN: Pride
and Prejudice.
HARDY: Tess of
the D’Urbervilles
Naturalism and Pessimism.
Thomas Hardy: TESS OF THE
D’URBERVILLES.
PRACTICE TEST #2.
Victorian Novel.
Charles Dickens: CHRISTMAS CAROL.
DICKENS:
Christmas Carol.
Aestheticism and Decadence.
Oscar Wilde: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN
GRAY.
Modernism and Feminism.
Virginia Woolf: MRS. DALLOWAY
WOOLF: Mrs.
Dalloway
WILDE: The
Picture of Dorian
Gray.