7. Practical classes

	Period	Literary text	Topics for discussion
1	Middle English 15th c.	G. Chaucer “The Canterbury Tales”	Middle English literature: system of genres
2	Renaissance 15th – 16th cc.	W. Shakespeare “Sonnets”, “Hamlet”	Poetry of Renaissance: genres, features, subjects Golden age of drama Shakespeare authorship question
3	Romanticism 19th c.	Wardsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron Coleridge “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”	Romanticism and its features Problems of poetry analysis
4	Enlightenment and Victorian 18th – 19th cc.	J. Swift “Gulliver’s Travels” L. Sterne “Tristram Shandy” Ch. Dickens “Dombey and Son” Ch.Bronte “Jane Eyre”	Development of novel Kinds and features of novel Narrator and narrative techniques in 18th and 19th cc. novels
5	20th c.	B. Shaw “Heartbreak House” T. Williams “A Streetcar Named Desire” J. Osborne “Look Back in Anger” S. Beckett “Waiting for Godot”	Development of drama: from Shakespeare to Shaw New drama of the 20th c. Theatre of absurd
6	Modernism 20th c.	J. Joyce “The Dubliners”, “Ulysses” V. Woolf “Mrs Dalloway”	Modernism as a literary flow Modernistic novel Stream of consciousness
7	20th c.	I.Murdoch “Black Prince” J.Fowles “The Collector” K. Kesey “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” W.Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury” V. Nabokov “Lolita”	Narrator, types of narrator, narrative techniques in Modernistsic and Postmodernistic novels
8	Project Class

Golden rules

Quantity does not mean quality

Reading all texts from the list of literature doesn’t mean passing exam

Only few texts will be discussed at practical classes

Reading presupposes thinking

Not touching books for 90 days isn’t a disaster. Disaster is not touching books for 90 days and thinking nothing happens.

A Wise Man

List of literature

You may read either a book in English or a translated version. Reading shortened version means not reading.

English

1. Beowulf — Беовульф

2. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales (Prologue. Knight’s Tale. Miller’s Tale. The Wife of Bath’s Tale. Pardoner’s Tale. Clerk’s Tale) — Чосер Дж. Кентерберийские рассказы (Пролог. Рассказ Рыцаря. Рассказ Мельника. Рассказ Батской ткачихи. Рассказ Продавца индульгенций. Рассказ Студента)

3. William Shakespeare. Hamlet. Sonnets — Шекспир У. Гамлет. Сонеты

4. John Milton. Paradise Lost – Мильтон Дж. Потерянный рай

5. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (4 parts) — Свифт Дж. Путешествие Гулливера (4 части).

6. Laurence Sterne.Tristram Shandy –Стерн Л. ТристрамШенди

7. William Blake. Robert Burns. William Wordsworth. Percy Bysshe Shelley. John Keats. George Gordon Byron. Poems. — Блэйк У. Бернс Р. Вордсворт У. Шелли П.Б. Китс Дж. Байрон Дж. Г. Лирика.

8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. — Кольридж С.Т Баллада о старом мореходе.

9. Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son — Диккенс Ч. Домби и сын

10. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair — Теккерей У. Ярмарка тщеславия.

11. Bernard Shaw. Heartbreak House — Шоу Б. Дом, где разбиваются сердца.

12. Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway — Вульф В. Миссис Дэллоуэй

13. James Joyce. The Dubliners — Джойс Дж. Дублинцы

14. George Orwell. 1984 — Оруэлл Дж. 1984.

15. William Golding. Lord of the Flies — Голдинг У. Повелитель мух

16. John Osborne. Look Back in Anger — Осборн Дж. Оглянись во гневе.

17. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot — Беккет С. В ожидании Годо

18. Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince — Мердок А. Черный принц.

19. John Fowles. The Collector — Фаулз Дж. Коллекционер.