2. Тематический план курса

7 Семестр

№ п\п	Содержание занятий	Количество часов
1	Тема 1. Renaissance.	2
2	Tема 2. English literature during the Bourgeois Revolution	2
3	Тема 3. Enlightenment.	2
4	Тема 4. Romanticism.	2
5	Тема 5. Realism.	2
6	Тема 6. The Turn of the Century. Naturalism.	2
7	Тема 7. Symbolism. Aesthetic Movement. Neoromanticism.	2
8-9	Тема 8. Modernism. Stream-of-consciousness technique.	4
10-11	Тема 9. Postmodernism. Existential Literature. Magic Realism.	4
12	Тема 10. Science Fiction.	2

Итого: 24 часa

8 Семестр

№ п\п	Содержание занятий	Количество часов
1	Тема 1. Colonial Writing. American Renaissance.	2
2	Тема 2. Enlightenment.	2
3	Тема 3. Romanticism. Transcendentalism.	2
4	Тема 4. Realism. Naturalism.	2
5	Тема 5. Literature of the Lost Generation. Muckrakers. The novels of social protest.	2
6-7	Тема 6. Literature 1950 on…. (The Black Humor, The Beat Movement, Women Speak Out, The Theatre of the Absurd)	4
8	Тема 8. Detective Fiction.	2
9	Тема 9. Children’s Literature.	2

Итого: 18 часов

3. Теоретико-методологические основы курса

7 Семестр

1. ENGLISH LITERATURE - THE RENAISSANCE

The Anglo-Saxons (450-1100)

Caedmon – the first English poet, lived during the 600’s, his work – “Hymn” – a 9-line poem that praises God.

“Beowulf”- the only surviving full-length epic in Old English. Scholars believed the poem dates from the A.D. 700’s. The author is unknown. The work has no rhyme but instead uses alliteration. The poem describes the adventures of a mighty warrior.

The Medieval period (1100-1500)

Geoffrey Chaucer. “The Canterbury tales” (late 1300’s) – an unfinished collection of comic and moral stories written in heroic couplets. Chaucer introduced iambic pentameter (this pattern consists of 10 syllables alternately unaccented and accented in each line).

THE RENAISSANCE (1500-1650)

I II III

The Rise of the Renaissance The Height of the Renaissance The Decline of the Renaissance

Under the early Tudor monarchs Under Elizabeth I Under the Stuart monarchs

1500-1558 1558-1603 1603-1648