Syllabus
1. English literature and religion2. English Romanticism3. Climaxes of English Drama4. 18th and 19th century English Novel5. British Modernism6. British literature from the 1930s to 1960s7. Metamorphoses of English poetic sensibility8. Postmodernism in British literatureTexts for reading:John Milton: Paradise Lost (extract)Selected poems (hand-out)Mary Shelley: FrankensteinAlan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance RunnerHarold Pinter: Homecoming
Annotation
The aim of this course is to deepen and consolidate students' knowledge of English and British literature from the beginnings to the present by means of complex and thematically structured thematic units, and their broader historical, social, political and cultural contexts.The seminars consist of the teacher's general information concerning the theme, short students' presentations and moderated discussion based on students home preparation and reading. At the end of the course, students write an essay on a literary theme in which they are supposed to support their ideas and argumentation by their knowledge of English literature they have read.