- •Г.Ф.Крівчикова
- •Педагогічних внз денних та заочних форм навчання
- •Видано за рахунок автора
- •© Харківський націоальний університет імені г.С.Сковороди
- •© Г.Ф.Крівчикова
- •Contents
- •Module 1
- •Module 2
- •Requirements to the course of english literature
- •Завдання вивчення дисципліни
- •Завданнями навчальної дисципліни є формування наступних умінь:
- •Glossary of literary terms
- •How to prepare a book review
- •Critical Comments
- •Critical Reading includes:
- •Module 1 lecture #1. Anglo-Saxon (Old) Literature (450-1066)
- •Lecture # 3 The writers of the Medieval English Literature
- •Lecture # 4 The Literature of the 15th Century
- •Lecture # 5 The Literature of the Renaissance (1509-1660)
- •Lecture # 6 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- •Lecture # 7 The Puritan Period – the third period of English Renaissance (1616 – 1660)
- •Excerpt I [the hall heorot is attacked by grendel]
- •Excerpt II [the feast at heorot]
- •Excerpt III
- •In due season
- •Excerpt IV [beowulf's fight with the dragon]
- •Excerpt IV [beowulf’s funeral]
- •2. Anglo-Saxon Riddles
- •Riddle 1
- •Riddle 2
- •Is strangely born. Savage and fierce,
- •Is harder than ground, smarter than men.
- •In beautiful tones, teems with children,
- •Riddle 3
- •I must eagerly obey my servant,
- •Riddle 4
- •Riddle 5.
- •Riddle 6.
- •Riddle 7
- •The battle of maldon
- •Seminar #2 Geoffrey Chaucer “Canterbury Tales”
- •Summing up study questions.
- •2. "General Prologue" to Canterbury Tales
- •4. The Knight's Tale
- •5. The Miller’s Tale.
- •3. "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale."
- •7. The Wife of Bath's Tale. (Батской ткачихи)
- •Seminar #3 English Folk Ballads
- •The banks of allan water
- •The two magicians
- •The tree ravens
- •The cruel brother
- •With a hey ho and a lillie gay
- •The cruel sister
- •The wife of usher’s well
- •Bonny barbara allan
- •8.The farmer’s curst wife
- •10. Robin hood and little john
- •Seminar #4. William Shakespeare "othello". Questions on the structure of "othello".
- •Questions to discuss
- •Analysing literary devices
- •Analyzing Style
- •5. Fill in the style chart.
- •Edmund spencer sonnet 75
- •William shakespeare
- •Sonnet 18
- •William shakespeare Sonnet 130
- •William shakespeare Sonnet 116
- •William shakespeare Sonnet 60
- •William shakespeare Sonnet 147
- •Ben johnson poem
- •John donne holy sonnet X
- •Individual work
- •Lecture # 10 The Romantic Period (1780 – 1830)
- •Lecture # 11 High Victorian Literature (1830 - 1880)
- •Lecture # 12 Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature (1880 - 1910)
- •Lecture # 13 English Literature of the 20th century (the period between 1910 – 1938)
- •Modernism and its Alternatives
- •The Theatre of Absurd.
- •Lecture # 14 English Literature of the 20th century
- •Lecture # 15 English Literature of the 20th century
- •Jonathan swift "gulliver's travels" Study Questions
- •William blake "the tiger" (from “Songs of Experience)
- •(From Songs of Innocence) The Chimney-Sweeper
- •(From “Songs of Experience”) The Chimney-Sweeper
- •Songs of Innocence Nurse's Song
- •Songs of Experience Nurse's Song
- •John keats "on first looking into chapman's homer".
- •John keats
- •William wordsworth "london, 1802".
- •William blake london
- •William wordsworth " composed upon westminster bridge ".
- •S.T.Coleridge From the rime of the ancient mariner
- •George Gordon Byron From don juan
- •Percy Bysshe Shelly Ode to the West Wind
- •Seminar #9 charles dickens "great expectations" summary questions
- •(Chapters 20-31)
- •Techniques and language
- •Characters’ struggle to cut off or separate part of their lives:
- •Read and analyse a play by one of the writers of the period.
- •Read a play by Harold Pinter
- •2. Write an analysis of one of the short stories of an English writer of the 20th century analyzing a short story.
- •Point of view
- •1. First-Person Central.
- •2. First Person Minor
- •3. Third - Person Limited.
- •4. Third - Person Central:
- •5. Third - Person Omniscient.
- •One can analyse the point of view by answering the following questions about a given story:
- •General questions for story analysis and interpretation.
- •Individual work
- •Оценивание работы студентов
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Point of view
One of the most important literary devices is point of view. It is the author's selection of a narrator, who tells the story. There are many kinds of point of view from which an author may choose to narrate a story. The most commonly used are :
1. First-Person Central.
The Reader is led into not only the world of the story but also the mind of the first - person Narrator, who is the Central character. The Central character's thoughts, feelings, actions, and observations of what is happening around him and of Minor character's actions supply all the evidence of the story. This kind of narration may be objective, external, and dramatic, if it is limited only to what the Central character tells or what he does and observes. It can, in addition, be subjective, internal, and analytic, if the Central character also discloses his thoughts and feelings, imaginings, and evaluations.
2. First Person Minor
The Reader is led into the world of the story by the first person Narrator, who is a minor character observing the external actions of the Central character and telling the Central character's story. The first-person-minor Narrator also observes the external actions of the Minor character with whom the Central character comes in contact This method of narration is objective, external, and dramatic
3. Third - Person Limited.
It is the point of view in which the unidentified author refers to his characters in the third person but limits himself by telling only what can be seen or heard from inside of the world of the story. Speaking impersonally, not entering the minds of the characters, the author is like a television camera making an objective report.
4. Third - Person Central:
The Reader is led by the Narrator not only into the world of the story, but also into the mind of the Central character, whose thoughts, feelings, actions, and observations of what is happening around him - including the actions of Minor character - and to him and within him are recorded and evaluted.
5. Third - Person Omniscient.
It is the all-knowing, all-seeing narrator, the author himself with full power of authority. It is a point of view possible only in the imaginative world of literature. The author may tell about all of the characters and may relate at which none of the characters are present.
One can analyse the point of view by answering the following questions about a given story:
1. Who is the narrator of the story? Is the narrator the central character? Is it a minor character? Is it an unseen character (narrator) outside the world of the story?
2. What is the reader s relationship to the characters and action in the world of the Story? How close is he led to them by the author? Does the reader learn what the characters think or only what they do and perceive?
3. What is the attitude of the narrator towards the characters, action, and theme of the story he tells? Is the attitude of the narrator supposed to be the same as the author s? Is the reader s attitude supposed to be the same as the narrator s?
4. How reliable is the narrator? Does he seem to tell all he knows? Does he seem to misinterpret any significant facts? If so, why? Why does he choose to tell what he does tell?
5. What has the author accomplished by using the point of view he has used? Is it appropriate to the total effect of the story?