♦ English Literature and Culture I Seminar♦
ANNB110302, 110303, 110304
Class times: Mon 10-11:30 E 322, Tues. 8-9:30 A 424, 10-11:30 A 536
Instructor: Noémi Najbauer
Office: A 546, Office Phone: 72-506-600/ 4904
E-mail: najbauer.noemi@pte.hu
Office hours: Mon. 14:30-16, Wed. 12:45-15
In this course, we aim to discuss and understand in greater depth the most representative
readings of the English Literature and Culture I lecture series. Over the semester, we will
touch upon a vast array of English literature, from medieval poetry to nineteenth-century
prose in an effort to gain insight into major trends in the history of English literature. Your
final grade will reflect your work in weekly quizzes and two short essays. Please come to
class with a print version of the text to be discussed. Please note that no more than two
absences will be allowed.
1) Introduction.
2) Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, “Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale”
3) The Sonnet in England. Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 1; William
Shakespeare: Sonnets 18, 73, 130; Edmund Spenser: Amoretti, Sonnet 75
4) The Metaphysical Poets and John Milton. John Donne: “A Valediction: forbidding
Mourning,” Holy Sonnet X “Death, be not proud,” Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress,”
John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book I, ll.1-26
5-6) Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art. As You Like It
7) Eighteenth-Century Drama. Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The School for Scandal
8) Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Oliver Goldsmith: “The Deserted Village,” William Blake:
selections from Songs of Innocence and of Experience: “The Chimney Sweeper,” “London”
9) The Rise of the English Novel. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels parts I and IV
10) The Rise of the English Novel. Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,
Gent. Vol.I
11) Romantic Poetry. William Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern
Abbey,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Kubla Khan,” Percy B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind,”
John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
12) Prose fiction in the early nineteenth century. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
13) Summary