Кто читает:: Департамент литературы и межкультурной коммуникации

Статус:: Курс обязательный

Когда читается:: 3-й курс, 1, 2 модуль

Преподаватель

Боснак Дмитрий Владиславович

Full Syllabus

Abstract

This course is supposed to introduce the 3rd-year students to some of the most influential works of the Anglophone literature, certainly without laying a claim to a full overview. It builds on General English in the previous years, but shifts the focus to literary analysis. This class also complements the survey course in European and American literature, taught in Russian, by providing an opportunity for a closer examination of the original works written in English. The class consistently supports the program’s special attention to close reading of literary texts. Finally, the course is predicated on the students’ previous knowledge of literary theory and develops it in the way of comparing the essential terminology in the Anglo-Saxon and Russian traditions of literary criticism.

Learning Objectives

Introduction to the crucial works of the Anglophone literature
Learning the Anglophone literary terminology
Practicing close-reading skills when discussing the relevant works in the original
Enrichment of the vocabulary of the course participants

Expected Learning Outcomes

Analyzing John Donne's poetry
Analyzing key properties of the modernist prose: "stream of consciousness", synchronization, mythologisation
Analyzing Milton's epic poetry
Analyzing modern and postmodern drama
Analyzing modernist and contemporary poetry
Analyzing narrative techniques, metaphors and style of the 20th-century prose
Analyzing points of view in the 19th-century prose
Analyzing Raven in the context of Poe's oeuvre
Analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnets
Analyzing Shakespeare's tragedies
Analyzing the poetics of Whitman
Analyzing the Romantic rhetoric of sensation

Course Contents

Shakespeare's Sonnets
20th-century prose 2
20th-century prose 1
19th-century prose
20th-century drama
Shakespeare's drama
Modern and contemporary poetry
Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass
E.A. Poe
English Romanticism
Milton's Paradise Lost
John Donne

Assessment Elements

Class work
Mini-lecture
Terminology test
Will be given in the LMS.
Presentation on Modern/Contemporary Poetry
Examination essay
essays are to be submitted online

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 2nd module
0.3 * Examination essay + 0.1 * Presentation on Modern/Contemporary Poetry + 0.1 * Terminology test + 0.3 * Mini-lecture + 0.2 * Class work

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Bromwich, D. (2018). Whitman’s Assumptions: “Song of Myself,” in Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman. Social Research, 85(3), 503–519. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=132866181
Harits, I. W., & Sari, U. R. (2016). Myths in Edgar Allan Poes the Raven. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.C7119312
Janel Mueller. (2018). John Donne : Selected Writings. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2240845
Milton, J. (2018). The Poetry of John Milton. [Place of publication not identified]: Portable Poetry. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1807511
Mohamemd Albalawi. (2017). The Search for True Love in John Donne’s “The Extasie.” Advances in Language and Literary Studies, (5), 9. https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.5p.9
Nudžejma Durmišević. (2018). Plastic Theatre and Selective Realism of Tennessee Williams. Anafora, (1.), 95. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.7adb2dbadf9d45dcb46fd37381b4676d
Rodríguez Sánchez, B. (2017). A comparative study of the male characters in the tragedies of Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsred&AN=edsred.10366.135777
Warsh, L., & Engh, C. (2018). Gale Researcher Guide For: William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude. [N.p.]: Gale, Cengage Learning. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1877561
Под ред. Толмачева В.М. - ЗАРУБЕЖНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА XX ВЕКА В 2 Т. Т.1. ПЕРВАЯ ПОЛОВИНА XX ВЕКА 3-е изд., пер. и доп. Учебник для академического бакалавриата - М.:Издательство Юрайт - 2019 - 430с. - ISBN: 978-5-534-08391-0 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ЮРАЙТ - URL: https://urait.ru/book/zarubezhnaya-literatura-xx-veka-v-2-t-t-1-pervaya-polovina-xx-veka-432062

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Arata, S. (2009). Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884). Victorian Review, 35(1), 53–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2009.0051
Ashton, J. (2005). From Modernism to Postmodernism : American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=149858
Bradshaw, J. (2019). A Concordance to the Poetical Works of John Milton. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1994691
Campbell, G., & Corns, T. N. (2008). John Milton : Life, Work, and Thought. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=265014
Davis, A., & Jenkins, L. M. (2015). A History of Modernist Poetry. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=961352
Edwards, D. L. (2001). John Donne: Man of Flesh and Spirit. London: The Athlone Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=265466
Fourcade, G., Garnier, M.-D., Healy, T., Hillman, R., Mathis, G., Raynaud, C., … Wilcox, H. (2017). La poésie métaphysique de John Donne. France, Europe: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.4EB9FF53
Hatherell, W. (2006). “Words and Things”: Locke, Hartley and the Associationist Context for the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. Romanticism, 12(3), 223–235. https://doi.org/10.1353/rom.2007.0005
Jernigan, D. K. (2012). Tom Stoppard : Bucking the Postmodern. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=498953
Marla Lee Weitzman. (2015). Dorothea and the Written Word: Feminism and Heroism in Middlemarch. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.8C1A6F68
McDonald, G., & Chinitz, D. (2014). A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Chichester: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=755923
McNabb, K. (2015). Discovering Poe as a Compositionist: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Philosophy of Composition” and Process Theory. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.93AD68D9
Mudasir, M. (2014). Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama : A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=805832
Mueller, J. M., & Loewenstein, D. (2002). The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=120313
Mulvihill, J. (2006). George Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric and Wordsworth’s “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.BC44972D
Oliven, R. C. (2015). ’Thus conscience does make cowards of us all’ : the construction of soliloquies in Shakespeare. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.F4781A47
Philips, P. A. (2015). Tennessee Williams’ “Plastic Theater” A Formulation of Dramaturgy for “The American Method” Theater. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E5C2F9A5
Schwyzer, P. (2007). Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=201088
Shaddock, D. (2019). A Universe between My Hat and Boots: Whitman’s Self as a Model for Empathic Connection. Psychoanalysis: Self & Context, 14(3), 323–333. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2019.1621869
Smith, E. (2007). “Restless Explorations”: Whitman’s Evolving Spiritual Vision in “Leaves of Grass.” Papers on Language & Literature, 43(3), 227. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=26599284
Whitworth, M. H. (2010). Reading Modernist Poetry. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=313259
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, & Fiona Stafford. (2013). Lyrical Ballads : 1798 and 1802. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2245658

Authors

BOSNAK DMITRIY VLADISLAVOVICH

Бакалаврская программа «Филология»

Key Texts of the English-Language Literature