Ульяновский Государственный Педагогический Университет, 2013
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Old English Literature
The Middle Ages. The peculiarities of medieval culture.
Anglo-Saxon literature.
The historical context. Christianity and culture.
Old English poetry.
Beowulf. The genre of the epic poem. Christian and pagan motives. Medieval courtly literature. Romance.
The historical context. Changes in society. Chivalric ideal.
Courtly literature. Poetry. Romance. The main groups of romances and their sources. The Arthurian cycle.
Breton lays. Marie de France
Sir Gawain and the Green knight
Sir Thomas Malory. Morte d’Arthur. Literature of the fourteenth century. Langland and Chaucer.
Historical context.
W. Langland. The Visions of Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer. Biography. Early works. The French and Italian periods.
The Canterbury Tales. The plan of The Canterbury Tales.The characters. The Canterbury Tales as an encyclopedia of medieval genres
Chaucer’s role in the history of English literature The cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance.
The Renaissance in England
The early period. Reformation. Humanists. Thomas More and his Utopia.
Elizabethan Age. Elizabethan aesthetics. Elizabethen poetry. Sidney, Spenser, Surrey… The genre of the sonnet in English poetry. Elizabethan prose. Lyly. Eupuism.
English drama before Shakespeare.
Traditions of medieval popular drama. Mystery and morality plays.
Development of professional theatre. Classical influence. Dramatic genres and modes in English theatre.
Christopher Marlow. Drama of the ‘aspiring’. Dr. Faustus. The shift of conflict inside personality. William Shakespeare. Biography. Shakespearian question.
Phases of creative activity.
The evolution of the genre of comedy.
Shakespeare’s great tragedies.
Reconciliation plays Early Seventeenth Century.
Drama after Shakespeare. Ben Jonson
Baroque.
Metaphysical poetry. John Donne. Herbert. Commonwealth and Restoration
Historical and literary contexts
John Milton. Paradise Lost. The subject. Milton’s Universe .The problem of good and evil in the epic poem. The epic, lyrical and dramatic elements
Restoration literature. General characteristics
John Dryden
Restoration comedy The Augustan Age.
The Age of Reason.
The Enlightenment.
Neoclassical literature in England
Alexander Pope. Biography. Important works. Pope’s influence on the English language Eighteenth century drama
The changes in English drama. New forms of theatrical entertainment. Neoclassical tragedy; sentimental comedy; pantomime.The ballad opera. John Gay. Beggar’s Opera.
Domestic drama. George Lillo. The London Merchant.
The fight against sentimental comedy. Oliver Goldsmith.
Social and political satire. Henry Fielding
The pinnacle of the English drama of the period. Richard Sheridan. The Rivals. School for Scandal. The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth century
The Rise of the novel in the eighteenth century:
The novel and the romance
The social background of the new genre, its acclaimed aims
The emergence of the novel from extra-literary genres. English joualism. The periodical essay as a precursor of the novel
Daniel Defoe, the pioneer of the novel genre:
Defoe’s life and career.
Robinson Crusoe
The method of circumstantial precision, preoccupation with the actualities of life and interest in the adventure;
The literary form: the first-person narration, memoir, diary;
The philosophy of the novel.
The development of the genre. S. Richardson. The epistolary novel. The gains in the verisimilitude and drama. Psychological analyses.
The histories of H. Fielding. A comic epic. Romanticism
The historical and social background.
The literary background.
Reaction against the previous age
The concept of poetry. Imagination. Nature. The everyday and the exotic. The cult of childhood.
Individualism: the Romantic hero. The romantic artist in society.
First generation poets.
Second generation poets.
Romantic fiction. First generation romantic poets.
William Blake.Major works. Life. Poetry. Philosophy and mythology. Reputation.
The Lake Poets.
William Wordsworth. Major works. Life. Poetry.
Samuel Coleridge. Major works. Life.
Robert Southey. Second generation romantic poets.
George Gordon, Lord Byron. Life. Works. Reputation.
The Byronic hero.
Percy Shelley. Life. Works.
John Keats. Life. Poetry.
The Middle Ages. The peculiarities of medieval culture.
Anglo-Saxon literature.
The historical context. Christianity and culture.
Old English poetry.
Beowulf. The genre of the epic poem. Christian and pagan motives. Medieval courtly literature. Romance.
The historical context. Changes in society. Chivalric ideal.
Courtly literature. Poetry. Romance. The main groups of romances and their sources. The Arthurian cycle.
Breton lays. Marie de France
Sir Gawain and the Green knight
Sir Thomas Malory. Morte d’Arthur. Literature of the fourteenth century. Langland and Chaucer.
Historical context.
W. Langland. The Visions of Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer. Biography. Early works. The French and Italian periods.
The Canterbury Tales. The plan of The Canterbury Tales.The characters. The Canterbury Tales as an encyclopedia of medieval genres
Chaucer’s role in the history of English literature The cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance.
The Renaissance in England
The early period. Reformation. Humanists. Thomas More and his Utopia.
Elizabethan Age. Elizabethan aesthetics. Elizabethen poetry. Sidney, Spenser, Surrey… The genre of the sonnet in English poetry. Elizabethan prose. Lyly. Eupuism.
English drama before Shakespeare.
Traditions of medieval popular drama. Mystery and morality plays.
Development of professional theatre. Classical influence. Dramatic genres and modes in English theatre.
Christopher Marlow. Drama of the ‘aspiring’. Dr. Faustus. The shift of conflict inside personality. William Shakespeare. Biography. Shakespearian question.
Phases of creative activity.
The evolution of the genre of comedy.
Shakespeare’s great tragedies.
Reconciliation plays Early Seventeenth Century.
Drama after Shakespeare. Ben Jonson
Baroque.
Metaphysical poetry. John Donne. Herbert. Commonwealth and Restoration
Historical and literary contexts
John Milton. Paradise Lost. The subject. Milton’s Universe .The problem of good and evil in the epic poem. The epic, lyrical and dramatic elements
Restoration literature. General characteristics
John Dryden
Restoration comedy The Augustan Age.
The Age of Reason.
The Enlightenment.
Neoclassical literature in England
Alexander Pope. Biography. Important works. Pope’s influence on the English language Eighteenth century drama
The changes in English drama. New forms of theatrical entertainment. Neoclassical tragedy; sentimental comedy; pantomime.The ballad opera. John Gay. Beggar’s Opera.
Domestic drama. George Lillo. The London Merchant.
The fight against sentimental comedy. Oliver Goldsmith.
Social and political satire. Henry Fielding
The pinnacle of the English drama of the period. Richard Sheridan. The Rivals. School for Scandal. The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth century
The Rise of the novel in the eighteenth century:
The novel and the romance
The social background of the new genre, its acclaimed aims
The emergence of the novel from extra-literary genres. English joualism. The periodical essay as a precursor of the novel
Daniel Defoe, the pioneer of the novel genre:
Defoe’s life and career.
Robinson Crusoe
The method of circumstantial precision, preoccupation with the actualities of life and interest in the adventure;
The literary form: the first-person narration, memoir, diary;
The philosophy of the novel.
The development of the genre. S. Richardson. The epistolary novel. The gains in the verisimilitude and drama. Psychological analyses.
The histories of H. Fielding. A comic epic. Romanticism
The historical and social background.
The literary background.
Reaction against the previous age
The concept of poetry. Imagination. Nature. The everyday and the exotic. The cult of childhood.
Individualism: the Romantic hero. The romantic artist in society.
First generation poets.
Second generation poets.
Romantic fiction. First generation romantic poets.
William Blake.Major works. Life. Poetry. Philosophy and mythology. Reputation.
The Lake Poets.
William Wordsworth. Major works. Life. Poetry.
Samuel Coleridge. Major works. Life.
Robert Southey. Second generation romantic poets.
George Gordon, Lord Byron. Life. Works. Reputation.
The Byronic hero.
Percy Shelley. Life. Works.
John Keats. Life. Poetry.