ENGLISH LITERATURE II
LETTERATURA INGLESE II
A Survey Of English Literature from 1700 to the Early Twentieth Century
A Survey Of English Literature from 1700 to the Early Twentieth Century
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2016/2017 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Jan Marten Ivo Klaver | as published on Departmental website |
| Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims at providing students with a firm understanding of the literary, cultural and historical scene of different literary periods. It wants to show students how to study selected literary texts and tropes through time. During the course students will acquire the necessary linguistic and critical tools to analyze the periods in question, and will be encouraged to make autonomous judgments. Moreover, the course wishes to stimulate an open-minded approach to different historical periods.
Program
The Early Eighteenth Century: Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe; Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal; Alexander Pope - The Rape Of The Lock. The Poetry of Sensibility and the Romantics: William Cowper - The Castaway; William Wordsworth - Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye During A Tour. July 13, 1798; Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Nightingale; John Keats - Ode To A Nightingale; John Clare – Mouse’s Nest. The Victorians: Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market; Alfred Tennyson - Sonnet; Wilkie Collins – No Name; Matthew Arnold – In Harmony with Nature; Thomas Hardy - Hap; Gerald Manly Hopkins - God’s Grandeur. The Early Twentieth Century: E.M. Forster – A Passage to India; Rupert Brooke – The Soldier; Siegfried Sassoon - Glory of Women; Wilfred Owen – Anthem for Doomed Youth; William Butler Yeats – Leda and the Swan.
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
- Knowledge and understanding: students will acquire a good understanding of the essential social-historical and social-cultural factors underpinning the periods of study, and will be able to approach English Literature with the appropriate critical instruments and methods.
- Applying knowledge and understanding: students will have the linguistic, cultural and critical abilities to describe, analyse and understand cardinal aspects of English Literature.
- Making judgements: students will acquire the critical ability to judge and evaluate aspects of English Literature and will be able to express autonomous opinions on social-cultural subjects of different historical texts.
- Communication skills: students will be trained to have an open and unprejudiced attitude to different realities and historical periods and express themselves in appropriate language.
- Learning skills: students will possess the basic methodological skills, the critical abilities and bibliographical knowledge to continue their studies in the field.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Students are invited to visit my page on Blended Learning Uniurb for further study materials. Use of audiovisual aids is an integral part of the programme.
The course will be held in English.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
lectures; audiovisual aids
- Course books
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
- Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
- Alexander Pope - The Rape Of The Lock
- William Cowper - The Castaway
- William Wordsworth - Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye During A Tour. July 13, 1798
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Nightingale
- John Keats - Ode To A Nightingale
- John Clare – Mouse’s Nest
- Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
- Alfred Tennyson - She Took the Dappled Partridge Flecked with Blood
- Wilkie Collins – No Name
- Matthew Arnold – In Harmony with Nature
- Thomas Hardy - Hap
- Gerald Manly Hopkins - God’s Grandeur
- E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
- Rupert Brooke – The Soldier
- Siegfried Sassoon - Glory of Women
- Wilfred Owen – Anthem for Doomed Youth
- William Butler Yeats – Leda and the Swan
All texts are made available as etexts and can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JQzuQlQtL3ek1TX2VCeXBrODg/view?usp=sharing
Sudents are invited to visit my page on Blended Learning Uniurb for further study materials. Although I cover much background information during my lectures, students might like to check the multifarious facets of the different literary period in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 1 & volume 2. This is only recommended reading only.
- Assessment
written exam (at least 40% in English)
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
self study: non-attending students are expected to check out historical and cultural contexts on the internet; detailed textual and contextual analyses of the texts are freely available on the web as well. They are invited to visit my page on Blended Learning Uniurb for further study materials. To approach the multifarious facets of the different literary period I strongly recommend The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 1 & volume 2.
- Course books
- Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
- Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
- Alexander Pope - The Rape Of The Lock
- William Cowper - The Castaway
- William Wordsworth - Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye During A Tour. July 13, 1798
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Nightingale
- John Keats - Ode To A Nightingale
- John Clare – Mouse’s Nest
- Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
- Alfred Tennyson - She Took the Dappled Partridge Flecked with Blood
- Wilkie Collins – No Name
- Matthew Arnold – In Harmony with Nature
- Thomas Hardy - Hap
- Gerald Manly Hopkins - God’s Grandeur
- E.M. Forster – A Passage to India
- Rupert Brooke – The Soldier
- Siegfried Sassoon - Glory of Women
- Wilfred Owen – Anthem for Doomed Youth
- William Butler Yeats – Leda and the Swan
All texts are made available as etexts and can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JQzuQlQtL3ek1TX2VCeXBrODg/view?usp=sharing
Non-attending students are expected to check out historical and cultural contexts on the internet; detailed textual and contextual analyses of the texts are freely available on the web as well. They are invited to visit my page on Blended Learning Uniurb for further study materials. To approach the multifarious facets of the different literary period I strongly recommend The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume 1 & volume 2.
- Assessment
written exam (at least 40% in English); the programme above is valid only till January/February 2018.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Notes
The course will be taught entirely in English. The final exam and the bibliography are in English.
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