BA anglisztika képzés államvizsga
Brit irodalom és kultúra olvasmánylista
BA in English Studies Final Exam
Reading List in British Literature and Culture
Based on the following list of recommended readings, a personal reading list of twelve booklength texts must be selected for the final exam. Your reading list must be submitted to your
advisor (Attila Dósa in British Studies) for approval a couple before the exit exam.
LITERARY HISTORY
Fiction (one novel constitutes one “book”)
JANE AUSTEN Pride and Prejudice
THOMAS HARDY Tess of the d’Urbervilles
JOSEPH CONRAD Heart of Darkness
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs Dalloway
E. M. FORSTER A Room with a View
JRR TOLKIEN, The Lord of the Rings (Part I)
GEORGE ORWELL Nineteen Eighty-Four
KINGSLEY AMIS Lucky Jim
ANTHONY BURGESS A Clockwork Orange
MURIEL SPARK The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
WILLIAM GOLDING Lord of the Flies
IRVINE WELSH Trainspotting
Plays (one play constitutes one “book”)
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Dr Faustus
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, Macbeth
OSCAR WILDE The Importance of Being Earnest
G. B. SHAW Mrs Warren’s Profession
SAMUEL BECKETT Waiting for Godot
JOHN OSBORNE Look Back in Anger
TOM STOPPARD Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Essays (four essays account for one book, if selected)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Defence of Poesie
P. B. SHELLEY Defence of Poetry
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Preface to Lyrical Ballads
VIRGINIA WOOLF Modern Fiction
T. S. ELIOT Tradition and the Individual Talent
C. T. PROBYN “Introduction” in English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century (London:
Longman, 1987) pp. 1-23
EMMA LIGGINS “The Medical Gaze and the Female Corpse: Looking at Bodies in Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein”, Studies in the Novel 32.2 (2000), pp. 129-46.
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Poets (the works of 4 poets constitute one book, if selected)
ELIZABETHAN SONNET WRITERS, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BLAKE,
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, S. T. COLERIDGE, P. B. SHELLEY, JOHN KEATS,
THOMAS HARDY, W. B. YEATS, T. S. ELIOT
(AUTO-)BIOGRAPHY
LAURENCE STERNE, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
CHARLES DICKENS David Copperfield
VIRGINIA WOOLF Orlando: A Biography
EPISTOLARY FICTION TO WOMEN’S NOVELS
SAMUEL RICHARDSON Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Wrongs of Women
CHARLOTTE BRONTË Jane Eyre
GOTHIC FICTION
HORACE WALPOLE The Castle of Otranto
ANN RADCLIFFE The Mysteries of Udolpho
M. G. LEWIS The Monk
JANE AUSTEN Northanger Abbey
MARY SHELLEY Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
EMILY BRONTË Wuthering Heights
BRAM STOKER Dracula
SÉLLEI NÓRA Lánnyá válik, s írni kezd: 19. századi angol írónők
FILMS
(3 films may be substituted for one book, or maximum 6 films for two books)
Hamlet Dir. Laurence Olivier
Hamlet Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
Hamlet Dir. Kenneth Brannagh
Romeo and Juliet Dir. Baz Luhrman
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dir. Michael Hoffman
Frankenstein Dir. Kenneth Brannagh
Northanger Abbey Dir. Giles Foster
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Pride and Prejudice Dir. Simon Langton
Jane Eyre Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
The Importance of Being Earnest Dir. Oliver Parker
Tess of the d’Urbervilles Dir. Roman Polanski
Orlando Dir. Sally Potter
A Room with a View Dir. James Ivory
The Lord of the Rings Dir. Peter Jackson
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Dir. Ronald Neame
Lord of the Flies Dir. Peter Brook
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Dir. Tom Stoppard
Trainspotting Dir. Danny Boyle
The Hours Dir. Stephen Daldry
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