History of English-Speaking Countries Literature 2

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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

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

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

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.

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.

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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

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

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

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.

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.

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