- •Luhansk taras shevchenko national university
- •Course Structure
- •Lectures
- •Practical classes
- •Golden rules
- •List of literature
- •English
- •American
- •Reference Literature and Sources Books
- •Internet Sources
- •Topics for Essays
- •Practical Class 1
- •I. Geoffrey Chaucer – “father of English literature”
- •II. Work with text and its parts The General Prologue
- •III Language
- •List of Literature and Other Sources
- •Practical Class 2. Literature of the Renaissance Age. William Shakespeare
- •William Shakespeare
- •Sonnets
- •V. Vysotsky:
- •I. Smoktunovsky:
- •Extra writing task*
- •Bibliography
- •Practical Class 3. Romanticism in English Literature
- •Questions for general analysis
- •Bibliography
- •Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy”: “bomb hitting the novel form”
- •Dickens’s “Dombey and Son”
- •Practical Class 5
- •Sources
- •Рекомендуются к просмотру:
- •Application 3
- •Application 4
- •Practical class 7 Narrator and Narrative Techniques in the 20th Century Novel Texts
- •Questions for discussion John Fowles “The Collector”
- •Iris Murdoch “The Black Prince”
- •William Faulkner 'The Sound and the Fury'
- •Ken Kesey “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
- •Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita”
- •Sources
- •Project class
Luhansk taras shevchenko national university
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Recommendations for the course
“ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE”
for the 4th course students
“English / Hebrew”
“English / Turkish”
“English / Chinese”
Teacher:
Assistant lecturer
Daria Pohorielova
Погорелова Дарья Алексеевна
darya_pohorielova@mail.ru
Department of World Literature: room 1-300
1-307
Course Requirements and Evaluation
Module Tests: 40 percent
The first module test includes mostly theoretical questions; your comprehension of theoretical material is checked.
For the second module test you will have several essay questions that test how well you understand what you’ve read and your ability to make comparisons, contrasts and analysis.
Practical classes: 40 percent
8 practical classes
Discussions are as important as your own reading. So attend your classes and participate actively in the discussions.
Article: 20 percent
Article. This will consist of six to eight pages. Writing on some scientific subject. The paper must include at least three outside sources. Topic is chosen and discussed individually with each student. Best articles will be published.
Language: English (for essay) and English / Russian / Ukrainian (for article)
Form: Electronic (sent by e-mail) and Printed
Deadline for articles: November 1st
Extra points
Quizzes
Unannounced quizzes will be given from time to time to make sure you read the theoretical materials and keep up with the readings of texts. These are brief-answer questions conducted during lectures and practical classes. If you read the works carefully, you will get the answers correct.
Presentations
You are responsible for giving one presentation at the last practical class. Group of 3 to 5 students should work together. You can cover different aspects of the work. Be prepared with notes and insights, multimedia and visual aids. All details are in plan for practical class 8.
Extra tasks
For the beginning of each practical class (except 8th) you will prepare written works. It may be your authorized translation (English – Russian) for an extract from the book we are going to discuss at class or a piece of creative writing. All details are in plans for practical classes. Tasks are marked with asterisks (*).
Course Structure
Lectures
|
Lecture |
Period |
Major Authors |
Genres |
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1 |
Anglo-Saxon (550 – 1066) |
“Beowulf” |
Poetry: alliterative |
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2 |
Middle English (1066 – 1500) |
“Sir Gawain” G. Chaucer |
Poetry: alliterative Poetry: rhymed |
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3 |
Renaissance and Classical Literature (1500 – 1700) |
W. Shakespeare J. Milton |
Drama: blank verse Poetry: blank verse |
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4 |
Enlightenment (1700 – 1800) |
D. Defoe J. Swift H. Fielding |
Prose: didactic novel
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5 |
Romanticism (1770 – 1850) |
Lake poets P. B. Shelley, J. Keats G. Byron |
Poetry: various styles |
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6 |
Victorian literature (1850 – early 1900) |
Ch. Dickens W. M. Thackeray O. Wilde |
Prose: novel (fully developed) |
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7 |
Modernism and postmodernism (20th – 21st cc.) |
J. Joyce V. Woolf T. S. Eliot S. Beckett |
Prose: innovative
Poetry: innovative Drama: innovative |
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8 |
American literature of pre-democratic period (16th – 18th cc.) |
J. Smith B. Franklin |
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9 |
American literature of the 19th c. |
W. Irving N. Hawthorne E. Poe H. Melville H. W. Longfellow |
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10 |
American literature of the 20th c.
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J. London E. Hemingway J. Salinger K. Kesey T. Williams |
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