- •Г.Ф.Крівчикова
- •Педагогічних внз денних та заочних форм навчання
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- •© 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
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Lecture # 3 The writers of the Medieval English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)- the father of the English Poetry. Three periods of his literary activities. (The Romance of the Roses”, “Book of Dutchesse”. “The Hous of Fame”, “The Legende of Goode Women”, “Troilus and Criseyde”)
“Canterbury Tales”:
Its literary structure and the role of Prologue.
Generic complexity of “Canterbury Tales”.
Organization of portraits.
Class structure.
Frame characters.
Chaucer and religion.
The function of allegory in medieval literature.
William Langland (1330? - 1400?) “The Vision of Piers Ploughman” – a dream-allegory poem and a commentary on biblical texts.
John Wyclif (1320 – 1384) – the translator of the Bible.
John Gower (1330 – 1408). "Tale of Canace and Machaire" ( from “Confessio Amantis” : father's control over their daughters' bodies in partriarchal families.)
Lecture # 4 The Literature of the 15th Century
The peculiarities of the development of English literature in the 15th century. The pover ty of literature as the result of the Hundred Years War and War of Roses.
William Caxton – England’s first printer.
Folk poetry and poets (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Henryson, Dunbar). Main characteristics of folk-poetry (its themes, repetitions, interjections and refrains; a verse accommodated to the dance).
English folklore creatures (black dog (ghost), Brownies, dwarf, elf, ogre, Pucks, robins, Hob, dragon).
The genre of a ballad. Francis James Child - a collector of ballads.
Typical characteristics of traditional ballads:
(i) A ballad tells a story.
(ii) The emphasis is on action and dialogue, not description or characterization.
(iii) A ballad has a simple metrical structure and sentence structure.
(iv) It is sung to a modal melody.
(v) It derives from an oral tradition, and is of anonymous authorship.
Cycles of Ballads:
Ballads of the supernatural
Religious Ballads
Romantic Ballads
Ballads of Love and Sentiment
Ballads – domestic tragedies
Ballads about crimes and criminals
Historical Ballads
Ballads about outlaws and pirates
Humourous Ballads
Arthurian Legends. The changes in Arthurian legends in the 16-20-th centuries.
Sir Thomas Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur”.
Lecture # 5 The Literature of the Renaissance (1509-1660)
Renaissance as an intellectual and cultural movement.
The first period of the English Rennaissance (1509 – 1558)
The imposition of the English language by Henry VIII
Humanistic ideas of Thomas More in his “Utopia”.
3. Queen Elizabeth and the second period of the English Rennaissance (1558 – 1603) as the highest peak:
a) Non-Dramatic Poetry (Edmund Spenser “Faerie Queene”, “The Shepherds’ Calendar”; Philip Sidney and the Sonnetteers)
Italian sonnet: 14 lines divided into two clear parts, an opening octet (8 lines) and a closing sestet (6 lines) with a fixed rhyme scheme (abbaabba cdecde).
English sonnet: three quatrains (4 lines each) and a closing couplet)
b) Prose. Sir Walter Raleigh.
c) The Elizabethan Drama and the Theatre.
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593). William Shakespeare.