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History of English-Speaking Countries Literature 2

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Course ID: 0100-GL402AZ
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: History of English-Speaking Countries Literature 2
Name in Polish: Elementy historii literatury angielskiego obszaru językowego 2
Organizational unit: Faculty of Philology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 0 OR 3.00 (depends on study program) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.

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Language: English
(in Polish) Kierunek studiów:

(in Polish) FG

(in Polish) Profil programu studiów:

(in Polish) O

(in Polish) Stopień studiów:

(in Polish) 1

(in Polish) Forma studiów:

(in Polish) stacjonarne

Prerequisits:

Preliminary requirements: At least B2 level of English based on Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR , basic knowledge of literary issues and terms.


Short description:

Short description:

The objective of the lecture is to familiarise the student with selected problems concerning British, Irish and post-colonial literature within the scope of three literary genres: drama, prose and poetry (with special emphasis on prose and poetry) through various forms of work with the text.

The objective of the lecture is to enhance the comprehensive literature reading skills, critical thinking about literary work and analysis of texts, as well as effective participation in the discussion. During the lecture the student acquires general knowledge about the historical and cultural context of a specific source text origin and general knowledge about adaptations of literary texts

Learning outcomes:

Educational effects:

Knowledge:

As a result of attending the lecture the student:

E1. knows the most important directions of the English-language literature development from the Middle Ages to contemporaneity 01G1A_W02 01G1A_W04

E2. knows, differentiates and defines literary genres typical for a given epoch and uses literary terms characteristic for discussed works. 01G1A_W02 01G1A_W04

E3. knows the most important authors of literature in English from the Middle Ages to contemporaneity, their main works as well as the most important events from their biographies.

01G1A_W02 01G1A_W04

E4. knows selected literary, critical, theoretical works discussed. 01G1A_W02 01G1A_W04

Skills:

As a result of attending the lecture the student:

E5. describes and characterises the most important directions of the English-language literature development from the Middle Ages to contemporaneity. (01G1A_U03)

E6. differentiates and defines literary genres typical for a given epoch and uses literary terms characteristic for discussed works. (01G1A_U03)

E7. names the most important authors of literature in English from the Middle Ages to contemporaneity, lists their main works as well as the most important events in their biographies. (01G1A_U03)

E8. analyses and interprets literary works he/she has read, in a written and oral form, formulates their own judgement on the said literary works, independently compares literary works, can associate facts and postulate conclusions. (01G1A_U03)

Social competences:

As a result of attending the lecture the student is ready to:

9E be open to cultural diversity (01G1A_K03) (01G1A_K04)

10E recognize the importance of cultural and literary texts and their role in the process of cognition (01G1A_K03) (01G1A_K04)

11E use their communication skills in different cultural contexts (01G1A_K03) (01G1A_K04)

12E express opinions about artistic and moral value of the cultural and literary artefacts. (01G1A_K03) (01G1A_K04)

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2026/2027" (future)

Time span: 2027-02-15 - 2027-09-30
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Lecture, 30 hours more information
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Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Lecture - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T

(in Polish) Forma zaliczenia:

(in Polish) zaliczenie na ocenę

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2025/2026" (future)

Time span: 2026-02-23 - 2026-09-30
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Katarzyna Ojrzyńska
Group instructors: Katarzyna Ojrzyńska
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Lecture - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T

(in Polish) Forma zaliczenia:

(in Polish) zaliczenie na ocenę

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2024/2025" (past)

Time span: 2025-03-03 - 2025-09-30
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Agata Handley
Group instructors: Agata Handley
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Lecture - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T

(in Polish) Forma zaliczenia:

(in Polish) zaliczenie na ocenę

Teaching Method:

(in Polish) Metody dydaktyczne

Wykład konwersatoryjny E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Wykład problemowy E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Wykład informacyjny E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12


Method and Criteria of Assessment:

(in Polish) Sposoby i kryteria oceniania

1. zadania wykonywane w toku wykładu) 40%


Sposoby oceniania aktywnego udziału w zajęciach:


Za aktywny udział w zajęciach (szczególnie staranne przygotowywanie prac domowych i szczególnie sumienna praca podczas wykładu), student(ka) może uzyskać „+” (plus). Za trzy plusy student(ka) otrzymuje ocenę bardzo dobrą.



2.Zaliczenie końcowe 60% (Zaliczenie pisemne sprawdzające wiedzę, komptencje i umijętności zdobyte na wykładzie. Zaliczenie można powtarzać 1 raz. Po drugim niezdanym zaliczeniu, student/studentka otrzymuje ocenę niedostateczną.)



Skala ocen dla zaliczenia pisemnego (Test)


91% - 100% (5.0)

82% - 90% (4.5)

69% - 81% (4.0)

55% - 68% (3.5)

46% - 54% (3.0)

Poniżej 50% (2.0)


Metoda oceniania dla zaliczenia pisemnego (Wypowiedź pisemna)


Skala oceny oparta na Europejskim Systemie Opisu Kształcenia Językowego


Dzieli się na cztery podskale:

• Treść: jak dobrze student/ka wywiązał/a się z zadania (zgodność z poleceniem).

• Osiągnięcia komunikacyjne: jak skutecznie/klarownie treść została przekazana

• Organizacja: uporządkowanie treści, spójność tekstu, logika wywodu

• Język: zakres zostosowanych środków językowych (różnorodność słownictwa i struktur), poprawność językowan, styl.


- ocenianie efekty z zakresu wiedzy E1-E4 – zaliczenie pisemne

- ocenianie efekty z zakresu umiejętności E5-E8 – zaliczenie pisemne

- ocenianie efekty z zakresu kompetencji E9-E12– zaliczenie pismene i aktywna praca podczas wykładu



(in Polish) Metody weryfikacji i oceny stopnia osiągnięcia założonych efektów uczenia się:

(in Polish) Metody weryfikacji i oceny stopnia osiągnięcia założonych efektów uczenia się

• zadania wykonywane w toku wykładu (40%)


• zaliczenie pisemne (60%) w tym: test (30%) i analiza (30%)



Course Content:

(in Polish)

Ekfraza (John Keats)

Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Powieść Gotycka

Powieść Wiktoriańska (wybrani przedstawiciele)

Powieści sióstr Brontë

Pierwsza Wojna Światowa w poezji brytyjskiej Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen "Dulce et Decorum est", “Futility”, Rupert Brooke “The Soldier”)

Poezja Yeats w kontekście historyczno-kulturowym

James Joyce (wybrane teksty) / Virginia Woolf (wybrana powieść)

Teatr Absurdu (Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot)

Ziemia Jałowa T.S. Eliota

Poezja W.H. Audena (“Musée des Beaux Arts” “The Shield of Achilles”)

Seamus Heaney (wybarane utwory)


Bibliography: (in Polish)

Zalecana literatura i materiały pomocnicze

Materiały, które nie są dostępne w bibliotece wydziałowej są udostępniane grupie przez wykładowcę.

Teksty podstawowe zaczerpnięte z:

Abrams, M. H., ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol.1 I 2. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 (2012).

Online: Project Gutenberg

Materiały pomocnicze (wybrane):

Abercrombie, N. Alan Warde, Rosemary Deem, Contemporary British society. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000

David P. Christopher, 2010. British Culture: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Higgins, M, Clarissa Smith, John Storey (eds.) Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture. CUP, 2000

Gervais, David. Literary Englands: Version`s of Englishness’ in Modern Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2000

Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992

Materiały filmowe (wybrane):

Simon Schama. A History of Britain. The Complete Series. BBC

Simon Schama. The Power of Art. BBC.

Materiały źródłowe zaczerpnięte z prasy brytyjskiej.

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2023/2024" (past)

Time span: 2024-02-26 - 2024-09-30
Selected timetable range:
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Agata Handley
Group instructors: Agata Handley
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Lecture - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2022/2023" (past)

Time span: 2023-02-20 - 2023-09-30
Selected timetable range:
Go to timetable
Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Agata Handley
Group instructors: Agata Handley
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Lecture - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T

Teaching Method:

Didactic methods:

Interactive lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Problem-based lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Informational lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12


Method and Criteria of Assessment:

Assessment criteria:


1. Attendance and active participation in the lecture 20%

2. Final written evaluation reviewing knowledge acquired during the lecture 80% (The evaluation can be re-taken one time. In case of the second failure the student will receive an unsatisfactory grade.)


GRADING SCALE

91 – 100% very good (5.0)

81 – 90% above good (4.5)

71 – 80% good (4.0)

61 – 70% fairly good (3.5)

51 – 60% satisfactory (3.0)

Less than 50% fail (2.0)



- assessed outcomes concerning knowledge E1-E4 Final written evaluation

- assessed outcomes concerning skills E5-E8 written evaluation

- assessed outcomes concerning competences E9-E12



Didactic methods:

Interactive lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Problem-based lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Informational lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12



(in Polish) Metody weryfikacji i oceny stopnia osiągnięcia założonych efektów uczenia się:

The methods of verification and assessment of the degree to which students achieved the projected learning outcomes:


 written evaluation

 tasks completed in the course of the lecture


Course Content:

Educational Content:


Content of the lecture:


The lecture covers selected problems concerning British literature since the Middle Ages to contemporaneity with particular emphasis on the twentieth century literature. The curriculum is divided into three main blocks: poetry, prose and drama. Issues pertaining poetry, prose and drama are discussed alternately within the scope of each, consecutive historical-literary period.


Selected literary works discussed during the classes:


From the Middle Ages to Victorian epoch:


- Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales – selected fragments


- William Shakespeare (selected dramas – fragments)


- John Donne The Flea, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning


- Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress


- William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience – selected works


- Victorian novel – Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Charles Dickens – selected fragments



20th century and most recent literature:


- James Joyce The Dead

- T.S.Eliot The Waste Land

- Seamus Heaney Digging, Punishment

- Sarah Waters Affinity

- Poeci Pierwszej Wojny Światowej.

- R.S. Thomas i poezja walijska.


- Harold Pinter The Caretaker or other drama.


Bibliography:

Recommended literature and supporting materials:

Sources text excerpted from:

Abrams, M. H., ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol.1 I 2. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. 2157.

Supporting materials:

Acheson, James. The British and Irish Novel Since 1960. New York: St. Martin`s Press, 1991.

Ackroyd , Peter. Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination. London: Chatto & Windus, 2002.

Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Secker and Warburg, 1993.

Corcoran, Neil. English Poetry Since 1940. London: Longman, 1993.

Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Gervais, David. Literary Englands: Versions of Englishness’ in Modern Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Giddings, Robert. The War Poets. London: Bloomsbury, 1988.

Hyland, Paul. Ed. Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion. London: Macmillan, 2006.

Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992.

Moran, Maureen. Victorian Literature and Culture. Continuum, 2006.

Maldoon, Paul. The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 2009.

Thwaite, Anthony. Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-84. London: Longman, 1991.

Wainwright, Jeffrey. The Basics: Poetry. London: Routledge, 2008.

Film materials:

1. Simon Schama. A History of Britain. The Complete Series. BBC

2. Simon Schama. The Power of Art. BBC.

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2021/2022" (past)

Time span: 2022-02-21 - 2022-09-30
Selected timetable range:
Go to timetable
Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Agata Handley
Group instructors: Agata Handley
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Lecture - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T

Teaching Method:

Didactic methods:

Interactive lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Problem-based lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Informational lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12


Method and Criteria of Assessment:

Assessment criteria:


1. Attendance and active participation in the lecture 20%

2. Final written evaluation reviewing knowledge acquired during the lecture 80% (The evaluation can be re-taken one time. In case of the second failure the student will receive an unsatisfactory grade.)


GRADING SCALE

91 – 100% very good (5.0)

81 – 90% above good (4.5)

71 – 80% good (4.0)

61 – 70% fairly good (3.5)

51 – 60% satisfactory (3.0)

Less than 50% fail (2.0)



- assessed outcomes concerning knowledge E1-E4 Final written evaluation

- assessed outcomes concerning skills E5-E8 written evaluation

- assessed outcomes concerning competences E9-E12



Didactic methods:

Interactive lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Problem-based lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12

Informational lecture E1-E4 E5-E8 E9-E12



(in Polish) Metody weryfikacji i oceny stopnia osiągnięcia założonych efektów uczenia się:

The methods of verification and assessment of the degree to which students achieved the projected learning outcomes:


 written evaluation

 tasks completed in the course of the lecture


Course Content:

Educational Content:


Content of the lecture:


The lecture covers selected problems concerning British literature since the Middle Ages to contemporaneity with particular emphasis on the twentieth century literature. The curriculum is divided into three main blocks: poetry, prose and drama. Issues pertaining poetry, prose and drama are discussed alternately within the scope of each, consecutive historical-literary period.


Selected literary works discussed during the classes:


From the Middle Ages to Victorian epoch:


- Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales – selected fragments


- William Shakespeare (selected dramas – fragments)


- John Donne The Flea, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning


- Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress


- William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience – selected works


- Victorian novel – Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, Charles Dickens – selected fragments



20th century and most recent literature:


- James Joyce The Dead

- T.S.Eliot The Waste Land

- Seamus Heaney Digging, Punishment

- Sarah Waters Affinity

- Poeci Pierwszej Wojny Światowej.

- R.S. Thomas i poezja walijska.


- Harold Pinter The Caretaker or other drama.


Bibliography:

Recommended literature and supporting materials:

Sources text excerpted from:

Abrams, M. H., ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol.1 I 2. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. 2157.

Supporting materials:

Acheson, James. The British and Irish Novel Since 1960. New York: St. Martin`s Press, 1991.

Ackroyd , Peter. Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination. London: Chatto & Windus, 2002.

Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London: Secker and Warburg, 1993.

Corcoran, Neil. English Poetry Since 1940. London: Longman, 1993.

Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Gervais, David. Literary Englands: Versions of Englishness’ in Modern Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Giddings, Robert. The War Poets. London: Bloomsbury, 1988.

Hyland, Paul. Ed. Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion. London: Macmillan, 2006.

Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992.

Moran, Maureen. Victorian Literature and Culture. Continuum, 2006.

Maldoon, Paul. The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures in Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 2009.

Thwaite, Anthony. Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-84. London: Longman, 1991.

Wainwright, Jeffrey. The Basics: Poetry. London: Routledge, 2008.

Film materials:

1. Simon Schama. A History of Britain. The Complete Series. BBC

2. Simon Schama. The Power of Art. BBC.

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2020/2021" (past)

Time span: 2021-03-08 - 2021-09-30
Selected timetable range:
Go to timetable
Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators: Agata Handley
Group instructors: Agata Handley
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Lecture - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T

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