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History of British literature before 1900

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Course ID: 15-HLBP1-OG-12
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (unknown)
Course title: History of British literature before 1900
Name in Polish: Historia literatury brytyjskiej przed 1900
Organizational unit: Faculty of English
Course groups: (in Polish) E-learning - przedmioty Wydziału Anglistyki
(in Polish) Moodle - przedmioty Szkoły Nauk o Języku i Literaturze
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 5.00 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
Module type:

compulsory

Major:

English philology

Specialisation: General academic

Cycle of studies:

1st cycle

Module learning aims:

(in Polish) Przekazanie wiedzy z zakresu historii literatury angielskiej od średniowiecza do końca XIX wieku, czyli epoki wiktoriańskiej,

Rozwinięcie zdolności krytycznej analizy tekstów literackich,

Rozwinięcie umiejętności zastosowania metod badania literatury w analizie tekstów literackich,

Doskonalenie umiejętności czytania krytycznych opracowań oraz ich wykorzystania w analizie tekstów literackich,

Udoskonalenie umiejętności pisania krótkich esejów krytycznoliterackich i korzystania ze źródeł literaturowych,

Rozwinięcie umiejętności komunikacji i pracy w grupie


Year of studies (where relevant):

Year 1

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences:

(in Polish) Wiedza i umiejętności z zakresu historii literatury innej niż angielska (np. polska)

Information on where to find course materials:

(in Polish) Umieszczanie na platformie Moodle zagadnień z wykładów, dokładnych streszczeń, oraz powiązanych z każdym wykładem szeregu terminów literackich wprowadzonych na danym wykładzie związanych z analizą tekstów literackich przedstawionych na wykładach.

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement:

(in Polish) Wykłady

konwersatoria

Student workload (ECTS credits):

10 ECTS (after both semesters)

Short description:

(First semester of a two semester course. Continues as 15-HLBP1-OG-22 in the second semester. Course for the general academic specialization - includes both lectures and classes.)

Full description:

(First semester of a two semester course. Continues as 15-HLBP1-OG-22 in the second semester. Course for the general academic specialization - includes both lectures and classes.)

The course is devoted to the presentation of the texts and contexts of the history of English literature from medieval to late Victorian period. The course commences with Old English poetry and prose, continues through the Middle English period with Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval encyclopedia of genres The Canterbury Tales, and looks at religious (the mystics, religious poetry) and secular (romance and fabliau) literary traditions. Next, we study the history of drama and the theater in the Late medieval and Renaissance period, as well as renaissance humanism in poetry. The literary works written during the Puritan Period and the Restoration offer two difference approaches to reality, religious and secular, thus they offer an insight into the seventeenth century culture. The Age of Reason, or Augustan literature, Romantic and finally Victorian literature are presented through the works of their major representatives writing poetry, prose and drama. In order to strengthen the analysis of the texts discussed each literary epoch is introduced through the main trends in culture, philosophy and science.

This general academic specialization course includes both classes and a lecture series.

Bibliography: (in Polish)

Wybrane artykuły i fragmenty z następujących pozycji:

Altick, Richard Daniel. 1973. Victorian people and ideas. A companion for the modern reader of Victorian literature. New York – London: W.W. Norton and Company.

Armstrong, Nancy. 1993. Victorian poetry. Poetry, poetics and politics. London and New York: Routledge.

Beadle, Richard (ed.). 1994. The Cambridge companion to medieval English theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Boitani, Piero and Jill Mann (eds.). 1998. The Cambridge companion to Chaucer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brantlinger, Patrick – William B. Thesing (eds.). 2005. A companion to the Victorian novel. Malden: Blackwell Publishers.

Brewer, Derek. 1983. English Gothic literature. New York: Schoken Books.

Bristow, Joseph (ed.). 2000. The Cambridge companion to Victorian poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chandler, James and Maureen N. McLane (eds.). 2008. The Cambridge companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cheney, Patrick (ed.). 2004. The Cambridge companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Curran, Stuart (ed.) 1993. The Cambridge companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Danielson, Dennis (ed.). 1999. The Cambridge companion to Milton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Darlymple, Roger (ed.). 2004. Middle English literature: A guide to criticism. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.

David, Deirdre (ed.). 2001. The Cambridge companion to the Victorian novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Davis, Lennard. 1983 [1996]. Factual fictions. The origins of the English novel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

de Grazia, Margreta and Stanley Wells (eds.) 2001. The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Donoghue, Daniel. 2004. Old English literature. A short introduction. London: Blackwell Publishing.

Fulk, R.D. and Christopher M. Cain. 2003. A history of Old English literature. London: Blackwell Publishing

Gardner, Helen (ed.) 1960. Metaphysical poets. Penguin Books.

Godden, Malcolm and Michael Lapidge (eds.). 2000. The Cambridge companion to Old English literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Happé, Peter. 1999. English drama before Shakespeare. London: Longman.

Hattaway, Michael (ed.). 2000. A companion to English Renaissance literature and culture. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.

Krajewska, Wanda. 1984. English poetry of the nineteenth century. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.

Krueger, Roberta L. (ed.). 2000. The Cambridge companion to medieval romance .Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McKeon, Michael. 1988. The origins of the English novel 1600-1740. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

Parfitt, George. 1985. English poetry of the seventeenth century. London and New York: Longman.

Pooley, Roger. 1992. English prose of the seventeenth century, 1590-1700. London and New York: Longman.

Pulsiano, Phillip and Elaine Treharne (eds.). 2008. A companion to Anglo-Saxon literature. London: Blackwell Publishing.

Richetti, John (ed.). The Cambridge companion to the eighteenth-century novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Schlauch, Margaret. 1956. English medieval literature and its social foundations. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.

Sitter, John (ed.). 2001. The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tucker Herbert F. (ed.). 1999. A companion to Victorian literature and culture. Malden: Blackwell Publishers.

Watson, J.R. 1992. English poetry of the romantic period, 1789-1830. London: Longman.

Watt, Ian. 1957 [2009]. The rise of the novel. Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing.

Womack, Peter. 2006. English Renaissance drama. Oxford: Blackwell.

Wu, Duncan (ed.). 1998. A companion to Romanticism. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.

Zbierski, Henryk. 1988. William Shakespeare. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna

Sikorska, Liliana. 2007. A short history of English literature. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

Sikorska, Liliana (ed.). 2007. An outline history of English literature in texts. Vol. 1-2. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie.

Learning outcomes: (in Polish)

Po zakończeniu modułu (przedmiotu) i potwierdzeniu osiągnięcia efektów kształcenia student potrafi:

1. rozpoznać główne nurty w rozwoju literatury brytyjskiej do XIX wieku

2. analizować i interpretować tekst literacki w kontekście historycznym

3. czytać ze zrozumieniem teksty należące do różnych rodzajów i gatunków literackich

4. czytać ze zrozumieniem naukowe teksty krytyczne i je oceniać

5. wykorzystywać opracowania krytyczne w analizie tekstów literackich

6. przedstawić własną interpretację tekstów i brać aktywny udział w dyskusji na zajęciach

7. korzystać ze źródeł literaturowych, głównie w języku angielskim

8. zdefiniować i prawidłowo posługiwać się podstawowymi pojęciami z zakresu literaturoznawstwa

9. wyciągać wnioski i porządkować efekty dyskusji

10. uporządkować informacje na temat omawianych tekstów literackich, cech gatunkowych utworów i przedstawić je w formie pisemnej

Assessment methods and assessment criteria: (in Polish)

Metody oceniania:

Ocenianie formujące: dyskusja podczas zajęć; sprawdzenie przygotowania do zajęć (krótkie sprawdziany na początku zajęć sprawdzające znajomość lektury); obserwacja podczas dyskusji i moderowanie dyskusji

Ocenianie podsumowujące: ocena kolokwium zaliczeniowego, egzamin pisemny składający się z eseju oraz rozbudowanych odpowiedzi na dwa pytania

Classes in period "Academic year 2020/2021, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28
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Coordinators: Liliana Sikorska
Group instructors: Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, Beniamin Kłaniecki, Jacek Olesiejko, Jeremy Pomeroy, Liliana Sikorska
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Classes in period "Academic year 2021/2022, winter semestr" (past)

Time span: 2021-10-01 - 2022-02-23
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Coordinators: Liliana Sikorska
Group instructors: Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, Joanna Jarząb-Napierała, Jacek Olesiejko, Jeremy Pomeroy, Liliana Sikorska
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Classes in period "Academic year 2022/2023, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2022-10-01 - 2023-02-26
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Coordinators: Liliana Sikorska
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Classes in period "Academic year 2023/2024, winter semester" (past)

Time span: 2023-10-01 - 2024-02-25
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Type of class:
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lecture, 15 hours more information
Coordinators: Liliana Sikorska
Group instructors: Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon, Jeremy Pomeroy, Liliana Sikorska
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Examination: Course - Graded credit
classes - Graded credit
lecture - Graded credit
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