A HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE<\/b><\/p>\n
Course title: A History of Literature in the English Language<\/b><\/p>\n
Tutor: <\/b>Atanas Manchorov, PhD<\/p>\n
Mode of delivery: <\/b><\/p>\n
Contact classes: The course of lectures provides a survey of literature in the English language, i.e. a selection of English and American authors of all periods, with a focus on the relationship between art (literature) and life.<\/p>\n
Contact classes: seminars elucidating the lecture topics by discussing individual works and providing an in-depth analysis of literary, cultural, and historical problems.<\/p>\n
Course place and status within the program<\/b><\/p>\n
Majors: <\/b>Applied Linguistics: \u00a0English & Spanish<\/i> students,\u00a0English & Greek<\/i> students,\u00a0English & Turkish<\/i> students<\/p>\n
Semesters: <\/b>1
\nTotal number of classes: <\/b>Lectures (L) \u2013 30 classes; Seminars (S) \u2013 15 classes
\nLevel:<\/b> Core course at BA level<\/p>\n
Competence expectations<\/b><\/p>\n
The successful completion of the course requires excellent language skills, keen interest in literature, and a preliminary reading of essential texts to ensure active participation in seminars.<\/p>\n
Aims and objectives of the course<\/b><\/p>\n
Successful undergraduate course-takers acquire systematic knowledge of literature in the English language by studying the major authors of British and American literary history.
\nUndergraduates should develop philological skills in reading works of previous and modern times, in discussing different issues, and in writing individual and group essays.
\nThe course is aimed at helping students attain proficiency in literature and gain an understanding of some of the most influential works of all time.
\nAs expected, students should also acquire competence in studying fiction by themselves and finding library and electronic sources.<\/p>\n
Weekly organization of topics & reading assignments<\/b><\/p>\n
I. Syllabus<\/b><\/p>\n
1. 428-1066: The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
\n2. 1066-1485: The Middle English Period
\n3. 1500-1660: The Renaissance 1
\n1485-1558: The Early Tudor Age
\n1558-1603: The Elizabethan Age
\n4. 1500-1660: The Renaissance 2
\n1603-1625: The Jacobean Age
\n1607-1776: The Colonial Period (US)
\n5. 1500-1660: The Renaissance 3
\n1625-1649: The Caroline Age
\n1649-1660: The Commonwealth Period
\n6. 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period 1
\n1660-1689: Restoration Literature
\n7. 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period 2
\n1700-1750: The Augustan Age
\n1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson)
\n1765-1790: The Revolutionary Age (US)
\n8. 1785-1830: The Romantic Period
\n1775-1828: The Early National Period (US)
\n9. 1831-1901: The Victorian Period 1
\n1828-1865: The Romantic Period (US)
\n10. 1831-1901: The Victorian Period 2
\n1848-1860: The Pre-Rapahelites
\n1880-1901: Aestheticism and Decadence
\n1865-1900: The Realistic Period (US)
\n11. The 20th Century 1
\n1901-1914: The Edwardian Period
\n1900-1914: The Naturalistic Period (US)
\n12. The 20th Century 2
\n1910-1936: The Georgian Period
\n1914-1939: American Modernist Period (US)
\n1920s: Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance
\n1920s-1930s: The \u201cLost Generation\u201d
\n13. The 20th Century 3
\n1914-1945: The Modern Period
\n1939-present: The Contemporary Period 1 (US)
\n1950s: Beat Writers
\n14. The 20th Century 4
\n1945-present: The Postmodern Period
\n1939-present: The Contemporary Period 2 (US)
\n1960s-1970s: Counterculture
\n15. Multi-Ethnic Literature: Native American, African-American, Asian-American Writers<\/p>\n
II. Plan of Seminars<\/b><\/p>\n
1. The Old English Period. Beowulf<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/~beowulf\/main.html>).
\n2. The Middle English Period. Malory\u2019s Le Morte Darthur <\/i>(<http:\/\/etext.virginia.edu\/toc\/modeng\/public\/Mal1Mor.html>).
\n3. The Renaissance. Shakespeare \u2013 Hamlet <\/i>(<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/hamlet\/index.html>), Macbeth<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/macbeth\/index.html>).
\n4. The Romantic Period. Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankestein<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/84\/84-h\/84-h.htm>).
\n5. The Victorian Period. William Thakeray\u2019s Vanity Fair<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.literaturepage.com\/read\/vanity-fair.html>).
\n6. American Modernist Period. Fitzgerald\u2019s The Great Gatsby <\/i>(<http:\/\/ebooks.adelaide.edu.au\/f\/fitzgerald\/f_scott\/gatsby\/>); Hemingway\u2019s The Sun Also Rises<\/i>.
\n7. Ethnic Minorities Literature. Toni Morrison\u2019s The Bluest Eye<\/i> (<http:\/\/videolectures.net\/yaleengl291s08_hungerford_lec13\/>).<\/p>\n
III. Reading List<\/b><\/p>\n
1. 428-1066: The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period<\/b> Course requirements<\/b><\/p>\n Attendance:<\/strong><\/p>\n Students are expected and required to attend all seminar classes of this course. It is particularly important for them to be in class to benefit from all that fellow students and instructor have to offer during discussions. No more than three unexcused are permitted. Medieval and Renaissance English Literature<\/i> is a two-semester course so students must take an exam as soon as they have finished each of the two modules.<\/p>\n Participation:<\/strong><\/p>\n Well-informed participation in discussions and supportive collaboration with other students is among the essential criteria for the successful completion of this course<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mode of assessment<\/b><\/p>\n Structure of Exams:<\/strong><\/p>\n Students must take two mid exams as the average grade of them is the final grade. Those who have failed must re-take the exam which encompasses the whole course syllabus.<\/p>\n Grading Policy and Guidelines<\/strong>:<\/p>\n 10% Oral Presentation Assignments<\/p>\n 20% Class Participation\/Oral communication in class<\/p>\n 70% Exams, Final exam.<\/p>\n Grade<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Score Range<\/b><\/p>\n A \/ <\/b>Excellent (6)\u2013 best possible grade \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a090+ (90-100) Bibliography<\/b><\/p>\n Core readings:<\/b><\/p>\n The general bibliography for the course includes<\/b>:<\/p>\n I. Anthologies<\/b><\/p>\n Baym, Nina et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature<\/i>. 6th ed. 5 vols. New York: Norton, 2003.<\/p>\n Gates, Henry Louis, and Nelly Y. McKay, gen. eds. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature<\/i>. New York: Norton, 1996.<\/p>\n Greenblatt, S. et al., ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages Through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 1986.<\/p>\n Greenblatt, S. et al., ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The Romantic Period Through the Twentieth Century<\/i>. Vol. 2. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 2006.<\/p>\n Lauter, Paul, and Richard Yarborough, gen. eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature<\/i>. 2nd ed., rev. 2 vols. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1994.<\/p>\n McQuade, Donald et al., eds. The Harper American Literature<\/i>. 2nd ed. New York: Harper, 1994.<\/p>\n Wilkie, Brian, and James Hurt, eds. Literature of the Western World<\/i>. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1988.<\/p>\n II. Surveys of English Literature<\/b><\/p>\n Corns, Th. N., ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry<\/i>. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.<\/p>\n Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature<\/i>. 2 vols. London: Ronald P, 1969.<\/p>\n Fowler, Alastair. A History of English Literature<\/i>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1987.<\/p>\n Magill, Frank N., ed. Magill\u2019s Survey of American Literature<\/i>. 8 vols. New York: Cavendish, 1991-94.<\/p>\n Spiller, rev. Robert E., et al, eds. Literary History of the United States<\/i>. 4th ed. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1974.<\/p>\n III. Companions, Handbooks, and Dictionaries<\/b><\/p>\n Cuddon, J. A., ed. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory<\/i>. London: Penguin, 1991.<\/p>\n Daiches, David, ed. The Penguin Companion to English Literature<\/i>. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.<\/p>\n Hart, James David. The Oxford Companion to American Literature<\/i>. 6th ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.<\/p>\n Holman, C. Hugh, and William Harmon, eds. A Handbook to Literature<\/i>. New York: Macmillan, 1986.<\/p>\n Inge, M. Thomas, ed. Handbook of American Popular Literature<\/i>. New York: Greenwood P, 1988.<\/p>\n Myers, Robin, comp. and ed. A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language<\/i>. Oxford: Pergamon, 1970.<\/p>\n IV. Bibliographies<\/b><\/p>\n Blanck, Jacob, ed. Bibliography of American Literature<\/i>. 9 vols. New Haven: Yale UP, 1955-91.<\/p>\n Manly, John Matthews, and Edith Rickert. Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines<\/i>. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1922.<\/p>\n \u2261\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE<\/b><\/p>\n Course title<\/b>: Medieval and Renaissance English Literature<\/p>\n Tutor: <\/b>Atanas Manchorov, PhD<\/p>\n Mode of delivery: <\/b><\/p>\n Contact classes: A course of lectures providing theoretical knowledge of the genre diversity and specificity of literary trends in English literature.<\/p>\n Contact classes: seminars elucidating the lecture topics by discussing individual works and providing an in-depth analysis of main literary problems<\/p>\n Course place and status within the program<\/b><\/p>\n Major(s):<\/b> English Philology<\/p>\n Semesters: <\/b>2<\/p>\n Total number of classes: <\/b>Lectures (L) \u2013 60 classes; Seminars (S) \u2013 60 classes<\/p>\n Level and status:<\/b> Core course for English Philology students at BA level<\/p>\n Competence expectations<\/b><\/p>\n The successful completion of the course requires excellent language skills, keen interest in literature, and a preliminary reading of essential texts to ensure active participation in seminars.<\/p>\n Aims and objectives of the course<\/b><\/p>\n Successful undergraduate course-takers acquire systematic knowledge by studying the history, literature and culture of a very extensive period of British civilization (7th \u2013 17th c.).<\/p>\n Undergraduates should develop philological skills in reading medieval and renaissance texts, discussing different issues, and writing individual and group essays.<\/p>\n The course is aimed at helping students attain proficiency in literature and gain an understanding of many significant authors. As expected, students should acquire competence in a wide range of skills, e.g. studying fiction and finding library and electronic sources. The course provides an appropriate preparation for a possible MA degree in literature and\/or literary theory through individual assignments.<\/p>\n Weekly organization of topics & reading assignments<\/b><\/p>\n MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE<\/b><\/p>\n I. Syllabus<\/b><\/p>\n Module 1: The Middle Ages<\/b><\/p>\n The Anglo-Saxon Period (428-1100)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 1:<\/b> Introduction. The Anglo-Saxons.<\/p>\n Week 2:<\/b> Anglo-Saxon Heroic Poetry: Beowulf<\/i>. Anglo-Saxon Elegies: The Ruin<\/i>, The Wanderer<\/i>, The Seafarer<\/i>, The Wife\u2019s Lament<\/i>, The Husband\u2019s Message<\/i>. Gnomic Poetry. Spells. Riddles.<\/p>\n Week 3:<\/b> Early Christian Poetry. The Schools of Caedmon and Cynewulf (660-850).<\/p>\n Week 4:<\/b> King Alfred and the Literature of Wessex (890-1100). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle<\/i>. The Venerable Bede \u2013 Ecclesiastical History<\/i>.<\/p>\n The Anglo-Norman Period (1180-1350)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 5:<\/b> The Norman Conquest. The Gothic Renaissance. Literature of the Transition (1180-1250).<\/p>\n Week 6:<\/b> Layamon. The Arthurian Legend.<\/p>\n Week 7:<\/b> Western Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century.<\/p>\n Week 8:<\/b> Romances, Tales and Chronicles (1250-1350).<\/p>\n The Middle English Period (1350-1500)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 9:<\/b> The Fourteenth Century. The Alliterative Revival (1350-1400). Langland. The Gawain Poet.<\/p>\n Week 10:<\/b> Geoffrey Chaucer. The Periods. Troilus and Criseyde<\/i>. The Canterbury Tales<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 11:<\/b> The Waning of Courtly Poetry (1380-1500). John Gower. John Lydgate. The Chaucerians.<\/p>\n Week 12:<\/b> Late Romances (1350-1500). The Traditional Ballad.<\/p>\n Week 13:<\/b> Medieval Drama 1: Mysteries, Miracles.<\/p>\n Week 14:<\/b> Medieval Drama 2: Moralities, Interludes.<\/p>\n Week 15:<\/b> Fifteenth Century Prose. Sir Thomas Malory.<\/p>\n Module 2: The Renaissance<\/b><\/p>\n The Early Tudor Age (1500-1557)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 1:<\/b> The Age of Humanism. Chief English Humanists: Sir Thomas More, J. Colet, Thomas Linacre, W. Grocyn.<\/p>\n Week 2:<\/b> Tudor Drama. Early Comedy and Tragedy. Academic Drama. Th. Norton and Th. Sackville – Gorboduc<\/i>. Gammer Gurton\u2019s Needle<\/i>. N. Udall – Ralph Roister Doister<\/i>. J. Heywood, J. Skelton, Sir D. Lindsay, J. Bale, H. Medwall, J. Rastell.<\/p>\n Week 3:<\/b> Poetry: Sir Th. Wyatt, Surrey (Henry Howard).<\/p>\n The Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 4:<\/b> The High Renaissance (1579-1598). Edmund Spenser.<\/p>\n Week 5:<\/b> Sir Philip Sidney and the Sonneteers.<\/p>\n Week 6:<\/b> The University Wits. Major Representatives: Lyly, Kyd, Marlowe.<\/p>\n Week 7:<\/b> Elizabethan Prose. J. Lyly. Sir Philip Sidney. Th. Deloney. Collections of Prose. B. Rich. Translations. Minor Prose Writers: R. Greene, Th. Lodge, Th. Nashe.<\/p>\n Week 8:<\/b> Shakespeare 1: Comedies.<\/p>\n Week 9:<\/b> Shakespeare 2: Histories.<\/p>\n The Jacobean Age (1603-1625)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 10:<\/b> Shakespeare 3: Tragedies.<\/p>\n Week 11:<\/i><\/b>The Period of Revolt (1598-1612). Dramatists of the Revolt. The Leaders: Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston.<\/p>\n Week 12:<\/b> Elizabethan and Jacobean Lyric Poetry. Shakespeare, B. Jonson, M. Drayton, J. Hall, S. Daniel, Th. Campion, Sir H. Wotton.<\/p>\n The Caroline Age (1625-1649)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 13:<\/b> The Rise of Baroque (1612-1660). Caroline Drama: Ph. Massinger, J. Ford, J. Shirley. Minor Dramatists. The Closing of the Theatres.<\/p>\n Week 14:<\/b> The Metaphysical Poets (J. Donne, A. Marvell, A. Cowley, G. Herbert, R. Crashaw, H. Vaughan). Caroline Lyric Poetry – Cavaliers and Puritans. R. Herrick, Th. Carew, Sir John Suckling, R. Lovelace. The Couplet Writers (Ed. Waller, Sir J. Denham).<\/p>\n The Interregnum (1649-1660)<\/b><\/p>\n Week 15:<\/b> John Milton. The Periods. Paradise Lost<\/i>.<\/p>\n II. Plan of Seminars:<\/b><\/p>\n Module 1: Medieval Literature<\/b><\/p>\n 1. Introduction. Definition of (Medieval) Literature. Fiction and nonfiction. Basic components: plot, characters, theme, style (point of view etc.).<\/p>\n 2. Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Beowulf<\/i>.<\/p>\n 3. Anglo-Saxon Lyric Poetry. The Elegies: Waldhere<\/i>, Widsith<\/i>, The Wanderer<\/i>, The Seafarer<\/i>.<\/p>\n 4. Early Christian Poetry. Caedmon\u2019s Hymn<\/i>, Genesis<\/i>. The Fates of the Apostles<\/i>.<\/p>\n 5. King Alfred and the Literature of Wessex (890-1100). Bede \u2013 An Ecclesiastical History of the English People<\/i>.<\/p>\n 6. Literature of the Transition (1180-1250). The Owl and the Nightingale<\/i>.<\/p>\n 7. The Arthurian Legend. Layamon\u2019s Brut<\/i>.<\/p>\n 8. Metrical romances (1180-1350). Havelok the Dane<\/i>.<\/p>\n 9. The Alliterative Revival (1350-1400). W. Langland \u2013 Piers Plowman<\/i>.<\/p>\n 10. The Alliterative Revival (1350-1400). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/i>.<\/p>\n 11. The Alliterative Revival (1350-1400). Chaucer \u2013 The Canterbury Tales<\/i>.<\/p>\n 12. The Waning of courtly poetry (1380-1500). John Gower \u2013 Confessio Amantis<\/i>. John Lydgate \u2013 Fall of Princes<\/i>.<\/p>\n 13. The Traditional Ballad. The Cherry Tree Carol<\/i>, The Two Magicians<\/i>, Sir Patrick Spense<\/i>, The Douglas Tragedy<\/i>, The Birth of Robin Hood<\/i>.<\/p>\n 14. Medieval drama 1 & 2: The Wakefield Second Shepherds\u2019 Play<\/i>; Everyman<\/i>.<\/p>\n 15. 15th-Century Prose. Sir Thomas Malory \u2013 Le Morte Darthur<\/i>.<\/p>\n Module 2: Renaissance Literature<\/b><\/p>\n 1. Introduction to Renaissance Literature and Culture.<\/p>\n 2. Tudor Poetry. Wyatt. Surrey.<\/p>\n 3. Elizabethan Narrative Poetry. Spenser \u2013 The Faerie Queene<\/i>.<\/p>\n 4. Elizabethan Lyric Poetry. Sidney \u2013 Astrophel and Stella<\/i>.<\/p>\n 5. Elizabethan Drama 1. Marlowe \u2013 Doctor Faustus<\/i>.<\/p>\n 6. Elizabethan Prose. Lyly \u2013 Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit<\/i>. Sidney \u2013 The Old Arcadia<\/i>.<\/p>\n 7. Elizabethan Drama 2. Shakespeare\u2019s Tragedies: Macbeth<\/i>.<\/p>\n 8. Elizabethan Drama 3. Shakespeare\u2019s Comedies: A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>.<\/p>\n 9. Elizabethan Drama 4. Shakespeare\u2019s Chronicle Pays: Henry V<\/i>.<\/p>\n 10. Jacobean Drama 1. The Leaders. Ben Jonson \u2013 Volpone; or, the Fox<\/i>.<\/p>\n 11. Jacobean Drama 2. The Followers. Dekker \u2013 The Shoemakers’ Holiday<\/i>. Heywood \u2013 A Woman Killed with Kindness<\/i>.<\/p>\n 12. Elizabethan Lyric Poetry 2. Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnets<\/i>.<\/p>\n 13. Caroline Drama: Comedy and Tragedy. Massinger \u2013 A New Way to Pay Old Debts<\/i>. Ford \u2013 The Broken Heart<\/i>. Shirley \u2013 The Cardinal<\/i>.<\/p>\n 14. Metaphysical Poetry. Donne \u2013 Songs and Sonnets<\/i>. Marvell \u2013 The Definition of Love<\/i>.<\/p>\n 15. Epic Poetry. Milton \u2013 Paradise Lost<\/i>.<\/p>\n III. Reading List<\/b><\/p>\n Module 1: The Middle Ages<\/b><\/p>\n 1.<\/b> Mincoff, Marco. A History of English Literature (Part 1)<\/i>. 3rd ed. Sofia: Naouka I Izkoustvo, 1976 (\u201cOld English Literature 650-1100: The Anglo-Saxons and the Heathen Tradition,\u201d 7-24).<\/p>\n 2.<\/b> Beowulf <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/~beowulf\/main.html>). The Elegies \u2013 The Ruin<\/i>, The Wanderer<\/i>, The Seafarer<\/i>, The Wife\u2019s Lament<\/i>, The Husband\u2019s Message<\/i>.<\/p>\n 3.<\/b> School of Caedmon \u2013 Caedmon\u2019s Hymn, Genesis, Exodus<\/i>.School of Cynewulf \u2013 The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene, Christ II (The Ascension). <\/i><\/p>\n 4.<\/b> The Venerable Bede \u2013 Ecclesiastical History (<\/i><http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/basis\/bede-book1.asp>)<\/i>. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle<\/i> (<http:\/\/omacl.org\/Anglo\/>).<\/p>\n 5.<\/b> The Owl and the Nightingale <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/~wpwt\/trans\/owl\/owltrans>).<\/p>\n 6.<\/b> Layamon\u2019s Brut <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/14305>).<\/p>\n 7.<\/b> ME Lyrics \u2013 The Cuckoo Song<\/i>, I Sing of a Maiden,<\/i> The Agincourt Carol, The Corpus Christi Carol, Of a Rose Singe We <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/medlit\/mltexts.htm>).<\/i><\/p>\n 8.<\/b> Havelok the Dane <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.sfsu.edu\/~medieval\/romances\/havelok_rev.html>).<\/p>\n 9.<\/b> Langland \u2013 Piers Plowman <\/i>(<http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/c\/cme\/ppllan>).The Gawain Poet \u2013 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (<\/i><http:\/\/alliteration.net\/Pearl.htm >)<\/i>.<\/p>\n 10.<\/b> Chaucer \u2013 The Canterbury Tales <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.ronaldecker.com\/ct.htm>).<\/p>\n 11.<\/b> Gower \u2013 Confessio Amantis<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.richardbrodie.com\/Prologue.html>). Lydgate \u2013 Fall of Princess<\/i> (Book I: <http:\/\/xtf.lib.virginia.edu\/xtf\/view?docId=chadwyck_ep\/uvaGenText\/tei\/chep_1.0297.xml;chunk.id=d3;toc.depth=1;toc.id=d3;brand=default>).<\/p>\n 12.<\/b> The Traditional Ballad. The Cherry Tree Carol, The Two Magicians, The Wife of Usher\u2019s Well, Lord Randall, Sir Patric Spense, The Douglas Tragedy, The Birth of Robin Hood <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/neu\/eng\/child\/index.htm>).<\/p>\n 13.<\/b> The Wakefield Second Shepherds\u2019 Play <\/i>(<http:\/\/lrc.surcollege.net\/courses\/World%20Literature%20Lectures\/The%20Second%20Shepherd%20Play%20EText.pdf>).<\/p>\n 14.<\/b> Everyman <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/renascence-editions\/everyman.html>).<\/p>\n 15.<\/b> Sir Thomas Malory \u2013 Le Morte Darthur <\/i>(<http:\/\/etext.virginia.edu\/toc\/modeng\/public\/Mal1Mor.html>).<\/p>\n Module 2: The Renaissance<\/b><\/p>\n 1. <\/b>Sir Th. More – Utopia<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/2130\/2130-h\/2130-h.htm>).<\/p>\n 2.<\/b> Th. Norton and Th. Sackville \u2013 Gorboduc<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/renascence-editions\/gorboduc.html>). Gammer Gurton’s Needle <\/i>(<https:\/\/web.gsc.edu\/fs\/bstrickland\/Gammer%20Gurton’s%20Needle.pdf>). N. Udall \u2013 Ralph Roister Doister <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/21350\/21350-h\/21350-h.htm>).<\/p>\n 3.<\/b> Sir Th. Wyatt \u2013 They Flee From Me; Blame Not My Lute, My Lute Awake <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.readme.it\/libri\/3\/3000013.shtml>); Earl of Surrey \u2013 Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace <\/i>(<<\/i>http:\/\/www.readme.it\/libri\/3\/3000013.shtml>).<\/p>\n 4.<\/b> Ed. Spenser \u2013 The Faerie Queene <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/15272\/15272-h\/15272-h.htm>); anthologized selections from: The Shepherds Calendar <\/i>(<https:\/\/scholarsbank.uoregon.edu\/jspui\/bitstream\/1794\/833\/1\/shepheardes.pdf>), Amoretti <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.shakespeares-sonnets.com\/spenser1>).<\/p>\n 5.<\/b> Sir Ph. Sidney \u2013 Astrophel and Stella <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.theotherpages.org\/poems\/sidney01.html>).<\/p>\n 6.<\/b> J. Lyly \u2013 Endymion <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/endymionmaninmoo00lylyuoft\/endymionmaninmoo00lylyuoft_djvu.txt>).Th. Kyd \u2013 The Spanish Tragedy <\/i>(<http:\/\/class.georgiasouthern.edu\/litphi\/faculty\/griffin\/kyd-thespanishtragedy.pdf>).Ph. Marlowe \u2013 Dr. Faustus <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/779\/779-h\/779-h.htm>).<\/p>\n 7.<\/b> J. Lyly \u2013 Euphues <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/cu31924013122084\/cu31924013122084_djvu.txt>). Sidney \u2013 The Old Arcadia <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/renascence-editions\/arcadia1.html>). Nashe \u2013 The Unfortunate Traveller <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/21338\/21338-h\/21338-h.htm>).<\/p>\n 8. <\/b>Shakespeare 1: Comedies \u2013 A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/midsummer\/index.html>).<\/p>\n 9. <\/b>Shakespeare 2: Histories \u2013 Henry V<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/henryv\/index.html >).<\/p>\n 10.<\/b> Shakespeare 3: Tragedies \u2013 Macbeth<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/macbeth\/index.html>).<\/p>\n 11.<\/b> Jonson \u2013 Volpone<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/4039\/4039-h\/4039-h.htm>). Chapman \u2013 Bussy D\u2019Ambois <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20890\/20890-h\/20890-h.htm>). Marston \u2013 The Malcontent <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.letrs.indiana.edu\/cgi-bin\/eprosed\/eprosed-idx?coll=eprosed;idno=P1.0170>).<\/p>\n 12.<\/b> Shakespeare \u2013 The Sonnets <\/i>(<http:\/\/poetry.eserver.org\/sonnets\/>).<\/p>\n 13.<\/b> Massinger \u2013 A New Way to Pay Old Debts (<<\/i>http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/47\/5\/>). <\/i> Ford \u2013 The Broken Heart <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/editions\/broken.htm>).<\/p>\n 14.<\/b>John Donne \u2013 Songs and Sonnets (The Flea, The Anniversary, <\/i>the 2nd<\/sup> Anniversary, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy\u2019s Day <\/i><http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/editions\/songsandsonnets.htm>). Donne\u2019sElegies (XVIII, XIX <\/i><http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/editions\/elegies.htm>). Andrew Marvell \u2013 To His Coy Mistresss, The Definition of Love, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland, The Garden <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/sevenlit\/marvell\/marvbib.htm>).<\/p>\n 15.<\/b> John Milton \u2013 Paradise Lost <\/i>(<http:\/\/robotics.dei.unipd.it\/~koral\/KDE\/kpdf_site\/Paradise_Lost.pdf>).<\/p>\n Course requirements<\/b><\/p>\n Attendance:<\/strong><\/p>\n Students are expected and required to attend all seminar classes of this course. It is particularly important for them to be in class to benefit from all that fellow students and instructor have to offer during discussions. No more than three unexcused are permitted. Medieval and Renaissance English Literature<\/i> is a two-semester course so students must take an exam as soon as they have finished each of the two modules.<\/p>\n Participation:<\/strong><\/p>\n Well-informed participation in discussions and supportive collaboration with other students is among the essential criteria for the successful completion of this course<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mode of assessment<\/b><\/p>\n Structure of Exams:<\/strong><\/p>\n Students must take two mid exams as the average grade of them is the final grade. Those who have failed must re-take the exam which encompasses the whole course syllabus.<\/strong><\/p>\n Grading Policy and Guidelines<\/strong>:<\/p>\n 10% Oral Presentation Assignments<\/p>\n 20% Class Participation\/Oral communication in class<\/p>\n 70% Exams, Final exam.<\/p>\n Grade Score Range<\/p>\n A \/ Excellent (6) \u2013 best possible grade 90+ (90-100)<\/p>\n B \/ Very Good (5) \u2013 second highest 80-89<\/p>\n C \/ Good (4) \u2013 average performance 70-79<\/p>\n D \/ Sufficient (3) \u2013 lowest passing grade 60-69<\/p>\n F \/ Poor (2) \u2013 failing grade 0-59<\/p>\n Bibliography<\/b><\/p>\n Core readings:<\/b><\/p>\n Abrams, M. H., and Stephen Greenblat, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 1986.<\/p>\n Cuddon, J. A., ed. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory<\/i>. London: Penguin, 1991.<\/p>\n Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature<\/i>. Vols. 1-4. London: Penguin, 1982.<\/p>\n Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature<\/i>. Vols. 1-4. London: Penguin, 1977.<\/p>\n Mincoff, Marco. A History of English Literature<\/i>. 3rd ed. Pt. 1. Sofia: Naouka I Izkoustvo, 1976.<\/p>\n Howard-Hill, T. H. Bibliography of British Literary Bibliographies<\/i>. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. London: Oxford UP, 1988.<\/p>\n The general bibliography for the course includes<\/b>:<\/p>\n I. Anthologies<\/b><\/p>\n Costello, Jacqueline, and Amy Tucker, eds. Forms of Literature: A Writer\u2019s Collection<\/i>. New York: Random, 1989.<\/p>\n Grancharov, Hristo, and Bogdan Atanasov, eds. English Medieval Literature: A Reader<\/i>. Veliko Turnovo: Cyril and Methodius U, 1976.<\/p>\n Hollander, John, and Frank Kermode, eds. The Literature of Renaissance England<\/i>. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.<\/p>\n Shurbanov, Alexander, and Boika Sokolova, eds. Readings in English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance Age<\/i>. Sofia: Sofia UP, 1986.<\/p>\n Wilkie, Brian, and James Hurt, eds. Literature of the Western World<\/i>. Vol. 1. New York: Macmillan, 1988.<\/p>\n II. Surveys of English Literature<\/b><\/p>\n Buck, Claire, ed. Women\u2019s Literature<\/i>. London: Bloomsbury, 1994.<\/p>\n Chambers, E. K., ed. English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages<\/i>. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1957.<\/p>\n Quennell, Peter, and H. Johnson, eds. A History of English Literature<\/i>. London: Oxley, 1973.<\/p>\n Ricks, Christopher, ed. A History of Literature in the English Language<\/i>. 3 vols. London: Sphere, 1970.<\/p>\n Scott-Kilvert, Ian, ed. British Writers<\/i>. 2 vols. New York: Scribner\u2019s, 1979.<\/p>\n III. Companions, Handbooks, and Dictionaries<\/b><\/p>\n Beadle, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre<\/i>. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.<\/p>\n Braunmuller, R. A., and Michael Hattaway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama<\/i>. Canbridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.<\/p>\n Corns, Th. N., ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry<\/i>. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.<\/p>\n Drabble, Margaret, ed. The Oxford Companion of English Literature<\/i>. 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.<\/p>\n Harvey, Sir Paul, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature<\/i>. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1981.<\/p>\n Ousby, Ian, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English<\/i>. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.<\/p>\n Stringer, Jenny, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English<\/i>. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.<\/p>\n Wynne-Davis, Marione, ed. The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature<\/i>. London: Bloomsbury, 1989.<\/p>\n IV. Bibliographies<\/b><\/p>\n Watson, George, ed. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature<\/i>. Vol. 1, 600-1660. London: Cambridge UP, 1974.<\/p>\n Kirkpatrick, D. L., ed. Reference Guide to English Literature<\/i>. Detroit: St. James P, 1991.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2261\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b>\u2261<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE<\/b><\/p>\n Course title: <\/b>Medieval and Renaissance English Literature<\/p>\n Tutor: <\/b>Atanas Manchorov, PhD<\/p>\n Mode of delivery: <\/b><\/p>\n Contact classes: <\/i>A course of lectures providing theoretical knowledge of the genre diversity and specificity of literary trends in English literature.<\/p>\n Contact classes: <\/i>seminars elucidating the lecture topics by discussing individual works and providing an in-depth analysis of main literary problems<\/p>\n Course place and status within the program<\/b><\/p>\n Majors:<\/b><\/p>\n Bulgarian & English<\/i> students<\/p>\n Russian & English<\/i> students<\/p>\n English & German<\/i> students<\/p>\n Semesters: <\/b>2<\/p>\n Total number of classes:<\/b> Lectures (L) \u2013 30 classes; Seminars (S) \u2013 30 classes<\/p>\n Level and status:<\/b> Core course at BA level<\/p>\n Competence expectations<\/b><\/p>\n The successful completion of the course requires excellent language skills, keen interest in literature, and a preliminary reading of essential texts to ensure active participation in seminars.<\/p>\n Aims and objectives of the course<\/b><\/p>\n Successful undergraduate course-takers acquire systematic knowledge by studying the history, literature and culture of a very extensive period of British civilization (7th \u2013 17th c.).<\/p>\n Undergraduates should develop philological skills in reading medieval and renaissance texts, discussing different issues, and writing individual and group essays.<\/p>\n The course is aimed at helping students attain proficiency in literature and gain an understanding of many significant authors. As expected, students should acquire competence in a wide range of skills, e.g. studying fiction and finding library and electronic sources. The course provides an appropriate preparation for a possible MA degree in literature and\/or literary theory through individual assignments.<\/p>\n Weekly organization of topics & reading assignments<\/b><\/p>\n MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE<\/b><\/p>\n I. Syllabus<\/b><\/p>\n Module 1: The Middle Ages<\/b><\/p>\n Week 1:<\/b> Anglo-Saxon Heroic Poetry: Beowulf<\/i>. Anglo-Saxon Elegies: The Ruin<\/i>, The Wanderer<\/i>, The Seafarer<\/i>, The Wife\u2019s Lament<\/i>, The Husband\u2019s Message<\/i>. Gnomic Poetry. Spells. Riddles.<\/p>\n Week 2:<\/b> Early Christian Poetry. The Schools of Caedmon and Cynewulf (660-850).<\/p>\n Week 3:<\/b> The Fourteenth Century. The Alliterative Revival (1350-1400). Langland. The Gawain Poet.<\/p>\n Week 4:<\/b> Geoffrey Chaucer. The Periods. The Canterbury Tales<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 5:<\/b> Late Romances (1350-1500). The Traditional Ballad.<\/p>\n Week 6:<\/b> Medieval Drama: Mysteries, Moralities, Interludes.<\/p>\n Week 7:<\/b> Fifteenth Century Prose. Sir Thomas Malory.<\/p>\n Module 2: The Renaissance<\/b><\/p>\n Week 1:<\/b> Poetry: Sir Th. Wyatt, Surrey (Henry Howard).<\/p>\n Week 2:<\/b> The High Renaissance (1579-1598). Edmund Spenser.<\/p>\n Week 3:<\/b> The University Wits. Major Representatives: John Lyly, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe.<\/p>\n Week 4:<\/b> Shakespeare 1: Introduction. Comedies.<\/p>\n Week 5:<\/b> Shakespeare 2: Tragedies. Histories.<\/p>\n Week 6:<\/i><\/b>The Period of Revolt (1598-1612). Dramatists of the Revolt. The Leaders: Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston.<\/p>\n Week 7:<\/b> Elizabethan and Jacobean Lyric Poetry. Shakespeare. John Donne.<\/p>\n Week 8:<\/b> John Milton. The Periods. Paradise Lost<\/i>.<\/p>\n II. Plan of Seminars<\/b><\/p>\n Module 1: Medieval Literature<\/b><\/p>\n Week 1:<\/b> Anglo-Saxon Poetry. Beowulf<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 2:<\/b> Early Christian Poetry. Caedmon\u2019s Hymn<\/i>, Genesis<\/i>. The Fates of the Apostles<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 3:<\/b> The Alliterative Revival (1350-1400). W. Langland \u2013 Piers Plowman<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 4:<\/b> The Alliterative Revival (1350-1400). Chaucer \u2013 The Canterbury Tales<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 5:<\/b> The Traditional Ballad. The Cherry Tree Carol<\/i>, The Two Magicians<\/i>, Sir Patrick Spense<\/i>, The Douglas Tragedy<\/i>, The Birth of Robin Hood<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 6:<\/b> Medieval drama. The Wakefield Second Shepherds\u2019 Play<\/i>. Everyman<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 7:<\/b> 15th-Century Prose. Sir Thomas Malory \u2013 Le Morte Darthur<\/i>.<\/p>\n Module 2: Renaissance Literature<\/b><\/p>\n Week 1:<\/b> Tudor Poetry. Wyatt. Surrey.<\/p>\n Week 2:<\/b> Elizabethan Narrative Poetry. Spenser \u2013 The Faerie Queene.<\/p>\n Week 3:<\/b> Elizabethan Drama. Marlowe \u2013 Doctor Faustus<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 4:<\/b> Elizabethan Drama. Shakespeare 1: A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 5:<\/b> Elizabethan Drama. Shakespeare 2: Macbeth<\/i>. Henry V<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 6:<\/b> Jacobean Drama. The Leaders. Ben Jonson \u2013 Volpone.<\/p>\n Week 7:<\/b> Elizabethan Lyric Poetry. Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnets<\/i>.<\/p>\n Week 8:<\/b> Epic Poetry. Milton \u2013 Paradise Lost<\/i>.<\/p>\n III. Reading List<\/b><\/p>\n Module 1: The Middle Ages<\/b><\/p>\n 1.<\/b> Beowulf <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/~beowulf\/main.html>). The Elegies \u2013 The Ruin<\/i>, The Wanderer<\/i>, The Seafarer<\/i>, The Wife\u2019s Lament<\/i>, The Husband\u2019s Message<\/i>.<\/p>\n 2.<\/b> School of Caedmon \u2013 Caedmon\u2019s Hymn, Genesis, Exodus; <\/i>School of Cynewulf \u2013 The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene, Christ II (The Ascension). <\/i><\/p>\n 3.<\/b> Langland \u2013 Piers Plowman <\/i>(<http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/c\/cme\/ppllan>).The Gawain Poet \u2013 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (<\/i><http:\/\/alliteration.net\/Pearl.htm >)<\/i>.<\/p>\n 4.<\/b> Chaucer \u2013 The Canterbury Tales <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.ronaldecker.com\/ct.htm>).<\/p>\n 5.<\/b> Ballads \u2013 The Cherry Tree Carol, The Two Magicians, The Wife of Usher\u2019s Well, Lord Randall, Sir Patric Spense, The Douglas Tragedy, The Birth of Robin Hood <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/neu\/eng\/child\/index.htm>).<\/p>\n 6.<\/b> The Wakefield Second Shepherds\u2019 Play <\/i>(<http:\/\/lrc.surcollege.net\/courses\/World%20Literature%20Lectures\/The%20Second%20Shepherd%20Play%20EText.pdf>). Everyman <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/renascence-editions\/everyman.html>).<\/p>\n 7.<\/b> Sir Thomas Malory \u2013 Le Morte Darthur <\/i>(<http:\/\/etext.virginia.edu\/toc\/modeng\/public\/Mal1Mor.html>).<\/p>\n Module 2: The Renaissance<\/b><\/p>\n 1.<\/b> Sir Th. Wyatt \u2013 They Flee From Me; Blame Not My Lute, My Lute Awake <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.readme.it\/libri\/3\/3000013.shtml>); Earl of Surrey \u2013 Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace <\/i>(<<\/i>http:\/\/www.readme.it\/libri\/3\/3000013.shtml>).<\/p>\n 2.<\/b> Ed. Spenser \u2013 The Faerie Queene <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/15272\/15272-h\/15272-h.htm>); anthologized selections from: The Shepherds Calendar <\/i>(<https:\/\/scholarsbank.uoregon.edu\/jspui\/bitstream\/1794\/833\/1\/shepheardes.pdf>), Amoretti <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.shakespeares-sonnets.com\/spenser1>).<\/p>\n 3.<\/b> J. Lyly \u2013 Endymion <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/endymionmaninmoo00lylyuoft\/endymionmaninmoo00lylyuoft_djvu.txt>).Th. Kyd \u2013 The Spanish Tragedy <\/i>(<http:\/\/class.georgiasouthern.edu\/litphi\/faculty\/griffin\/kyd-thespanishtragedy.pdf>).Ph. Marlowe \u2013 Dr. Faustus <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/779\/779-h\/779-h.htm>).<\/p>\n 4. <\/b>Shakespeare 1: Comedies \u2013 A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/midsummer\/index.html>).<\/p>\n 5. <\/b>Shakespeare 2: Tragedies \u2013 Macbeth<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/macbeth\/index.html>).<\/p>\n Histories \u2013 Henry V<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/henryv\/index.html >).<\/p>\n 16.<\/b> Jonson \u2013 Volpone<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/4039\/4039-h\/4039-h.htm>). Chapman \u2013 Bussy D\u2019Ambois <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20890\/20890-h\/20890-h.htm>). Marston \u2013 The Malcontent <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.letrs.indiana.edu\/cgi-bin\/eprosed\/eprosed-idx?coll=eprosed;idno=P1.0170>).<\/p>\n 7.<\/b> Shakespeare \u2013 The Sonnets <\/i>(<http:\/\/poetry.eserver.org\/sonnets\/>).<\/p>\n 8. <\/b>John Milton \u2013 Paradise Lost <\/i>(<http:\/\/robotics.dei.unipd.it\/~koral\/KDE\/kpdf_site\/Paradise_Lost.pdf>).<\/p>\n Course requirements<\/b><\/p>\n Attendance:<\/strong><\/p>\n Students are expected and required to attend all seminar classes of this course. It is particularly important for them to be in class to benefit from all that fellow students and instructor have to offer during discussions. No more than three unexcused are permitted. Medieval and Renaissance English Literature<\/i> is a two-semester course so students must take an exam as soon as they have finished each of the two modules.<\/p>\n Participation:<\/strong><\/p>\n Well-informed participation in discussions and supportive collaboration with other students is among the essential criteria for the successful completion of this course<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mode of assessment<\/b><\/p>\n Structure of Exams:<\/strong><\/p>\n Students must take two mid exams as the average grade of them is the final grade. Those who have failed must re-take the exam which encompasses the whole course syllabus.<\/p>\n Grading Policy and Guidelines<\/strong>:<\/p>\n 10% Oral Presentation Assignments Grade \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Score Range<\/b><\/p>\n A \/ <\/b>Excellent (6)\u2013 best possible grade \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a090+ (90-100) Bibliography<\/b><\/p>\n Core readings:<\/b><\/p>\n Abrams, M. H., and Stephen Greenblat, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century<\/i>. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 1986. The general bibliography for the course includes<\/b>:<\/p>\n I. Anthologies<\/b><\/p>\n Costello, Jacqueline, and Amy Tucker, eds. Forms of Literature: A Writer\u2019s Collection<\/i>. New York: Random, 1989. II. Surveys of English Literature<\/b><\/p>\n Buck, Claire, ed. Women\u2019s Literature<\/i>. London: Bloomsbury, 1994. III. Companions, Handbooks, and Dictionaries<\/b><\/p>\n Beadle, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre<\/i>. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. IV. Bibliographies<\/b><\/p>\n Watson, George, ed. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature<\/i>. Vol. 1, 600-1660. London: Cambridge UP, 1974. A HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Course title: A History of Literature in the English Language Tutor: Atanas Manchorov, PhD Mode of delivery: Contact classes: The course of lectures provides a survey of literature in the English language, … Continue reading
\n\u2022 Heroic Poetry \u2013 Beowulf<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/~beowulf\/main.html>).
\n\u2022 The Elegies \u2013 The Wanderer<\/i>, The Seafarer <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.anglo-saxons.net\/hwaet\/?do=show&page=Literature>).
\n\u2022 The School of Caedmon \u2013 Caedmon\u2019s Hymn <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/caedmon-s-hymn\/>).
\n\u2022 School of Cynewulf \u2013 The Fates of the Apostles <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/inpar\/Fates_Apostles_Kennedy.pdf>). <\/i>
\n2. 1066-1485: The Middle English Period<\/b>
\n\u2022 Langland \u2013 Piers Plowman <\/i>(<http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/c\/cme\/ppllan>).
\n\u2022 The Gawain Poet \u2013 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight <\/i>(<http:\/\/alliteration.net\/Pearl.htm>).
\n\u2022 Chaucer \u2013 The Canterbury Tales <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.ronaldecker.com\/ct.htm>).
\n\u2022 Medieval Drama \u2013Everyman <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.luminarium.org\/renascence-editions\/everyman.html>).
\n\u2022 Sir Thomas Malory \u2013 Le Morte Darthur <\/i>(<http:\/\/etext.virginia.edu\/toc\/modeng\/public\/Mal1Mor.html>).
\n3. 1500-1660: The Renaissance 1 <\/b>
\n\u2022 Marlowe \u2013 Doctor Faustus<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/779\/779-h\/779-h.htm>).
\n\u2022 Shakespeare\u2019s Comedies \u2013 A Midsummer Night’s Dream<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/midsummer\/index.html>).
\n4.<\/b> 1500-1660: The Renaissance 2 <\/b>
\n\u2022 Shakespeare\u2019s Tragedies \u2013 Macbeth<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/macbeth\/index.html>).
\n\u2022 Shakespeare\u2019s Histories \u2013 Henry V<\/i> (<http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/henryv\/index.html>).
\n\u2022 (US) 17-18th Century: The Colonial Period. Jonathan Edwards \u2013 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.jonathan-edwards.org\/>).
\n5. The Renaissance 3: <\/b>
\n\u2022 The Caroline Age. The Commonwealth Period. Milton \u2013 Paradise Lost<\/i>.
\n6. The Neoclassical Period 1: <\/b>
\n\u2022 The Restoration. Wycherley \u2013 The Country Wife<\/i> (<http:\/\/faculty.winthrop.edu\/vorderbruegg\/winthropweb\/current\/scripts\/CountryWife–acting%20version–revised.pdf>).
\n7. The Neoclassical Period 2: The Augustan Age; The Age of Sensibility. (US) The Revolutionary Age.<\/b>
\n\u2022 Augustan Literature. Swift \u2013 Gulliver\u2019s Travels <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/swift\/gulliver\/>). Pope \u2013 Rape of the Lock<\/i> (<http:\/\/poetry.eserver.org\/rape-of-the-lock.html>).
\n\u2022 The Age of Johnson. Goldsmith \u2013 The Vicar of Wakefield (<<\/em>http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/2667\/2667-h\/2667-h.htm>)<\/em>.<\/i>
\n\u2022 The Revolutionary Age. Thomas Paine \u2013 Common Sense<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/paine\/commonsense\/>).
\n8. The Romantic Period. (US) The Early National Period.<\/b>
\n\u2022 British Romantic Movement. Wordsworth and Coleridge \u2013 Lyrical Ballads<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/9622\/9622-h\/9622-h.htm>). Shelley \u2013 Frankenstein <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.literature.org\/authors\/shelley-mary\/frankenstein\/>).
\n\u2022 Early National Period. Cooper \u2013 The Last of the Mohicans <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/940\/940-h\/940-h.htm>).
\n9. The Victorian Period 1. (US) The Romantic Period.<\/b>
\n\u2022 Victorian Novelists. Thakeray \u2013 Vanity Fair<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.literaturepage.com\/read\/vanity-fair.html>). Emily Bront\u00eb \u2013 Wuthering Heights<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/bronte\/wuthering\/>). Dickens \u2013 Great Expectations<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.literature.org\/authors\/dickens-charles\/great-expectations\/>).
\n\u2022 Poe \u2013 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket<\/i> (<http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~ma98\/silverman\/poe\/fulltext.html>). Melville \u2013 Moby Dick<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/melville\/mobydick\/>).
\n10. 1831-1901: The Victorian Period 2<\/b>
\n1848-1860: The Pre-Rapahelites. Rossetti \u2013 The House of Life<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/cache\/epub\/3692\/pg3692.html>).
\n1880-1901: Aestheticism and Decadence. Wilde \u2013 The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.planetpdf.com\/planetpdf\/pdfs\/free_ebooks\/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray_NT.pdf>).
\n1865-1900: The Realistic Period (US). Twain \u2013 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/76\/76-h\/76-h.htm#c1>).
\n11. The 20th Century 1 <\/b>
\n1901-1914: The Edwardian Period. Conrad \u2013 Lord Jim<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/5658\/5658-h\/5658-h.htm>).
\n1900-1914: The Naturalistic Period (US). London \u2013 Martin Eden<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/1056\/1056-h\/1056-h.htm>).
\n12. The 20th Century 2 <\/b>
\n1910-1936: The Georgian Period (poetry). D. H. Lawrence \u2013 Snap-Dragon<\/i> (<http:\/\/theotherpages.org\/poems\/gp1_10.html>).
\n1914-1939: American Modernist Period (US).
\n1920s: Jazz Age. Fitzgerald \u2013 The Great Gatsby<\/i> (<http:\/\/ebooks.adelaide.edu.au\/f\/fitzgerald\/f_scott\/gatsby\/>). Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes \u2013 Not Without Laughter<\/i>.
\n1920s-1930s: The \u201cLost Generation.\u201d Hemingway \u2013 The Sun Also Rises<\/i>.
\n13. The 20th Century 3<\/b>
\n1914-1945: The Modern Period. James Joyce \u2013 Ulysses<\/i> (<http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/4300\/4300-h\/4300-h.htm>).
\n1939-present: The Contemporary Period 1 (US). Kurt Vonnegut \u2013 Slaughterhouse-Five<\/i> (<http:\/\/literature2.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/slaughterhouse-five.pdf>).
\n1950s: Beat Writers. Jack Kerouac \u2013 On the Road<\/i>.
\n14. The 20th Century 4 <\/b>
\n1945-present: The Postmodern Period. John Barth\u2019s The Sot-Weed Factor<\/i> (Part I: The Momentous Wager <http:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/sotweedfactor006326mbp#page\/n7\/mode\/2up>).
\n1939-present: The Contemporary Period 2 (US).
\n1960s-1970s: Counterculture. Allen Ginsberg \u2013 Howl <\/i>(<http:\/\/www.wussu.com\/poems\/agh.htm>).
\n15. Multi-Ethnic Literature<\/b>
\nNative American. N. Scott Momaday \u2013 The House of Dawn<\/i>.
\nAfrican-American. Toni Morrison \u2013 The Bluest Eye<\/i>.
\nAsian-American. Bulosan \u2013 America is in the Heart<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\nB \/ <\/b>Very Good (5)\u2013 second highest \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 80-89
\nC <\/b>\/ Good (4)\u2013 average performance \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 70-79
\nD \/ <\/b>Sufficient (3)\u2013lowest passing grade \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a060-69
\nF <\/b>\/ Poor (2)\u2013 failing grade \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a00-59<\/p>\n
\n20% Class Participation\/Oral communication in class
\n70% Exams, Final exam.<\/p>\n
\nB \/ <\/b>Very Good (5)\u2013 second highest \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a080-89
\nC <\/b>\/ Good (4)\u2013 average performance \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 70-79
\nD <\/b>\/Sufficient (3)\u2013lowest passing grade \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 60-69
\nF <\/b>\/ Poor (2)\u2013 failing grade \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a00-59<\/p>\n
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