ENGLISH LITERATURE II
LETTERATURA INGLESE II
A survey of Modern English literature before 1860
A survey of Modern English literature before 1860
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2015/2016 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
|---|---|---|
| Jan Marten Ivo Klaver | as published on Departmental website |
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 Sixteenth Century and the Sonnet:
Thomas Wyatt -Whoso List To Hunt
Philip Sidney - Astrophil And Stella I
Edmund Spenser - Amoretti Lxxv
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 55
Shakespearean Theatre:
William Shakespeare - The Tempest
The Metaphysical Poets and Milton:
John Donne - The Sun Rising
John Donne - Holy Sonnet 7
Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
Richard Crashaw - On Our Crucified Lord, Naked And Bloody
John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book 1
The Restoration and 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 - To The Nightingale, Which The Author Heard Sing On New Year's Day
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
The Early and Mid-Victorians:
Robert Browning - Caliban Upon Setebos
Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
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 Liturature 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
Thomas Wyatt -Whoso List To Hunt
Philip Sidney - Astrophil And Stella I
Edmund Spenser - Amoretti Lxxv
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare - The Tempest
John Donne - The Sun Rising
John Donne - Holy Sonnet 7
Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
Richard Crashaw - On Our Crucified Lord, Naked And Bloody
John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book 1
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
Alexander Pope - The Rape Of The Lock
William Cowper - To The Nightingale, Which The Author Heard Sing On New Year's Day
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
Robert Browning - Caliban Upon Setebos
Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
All texts are made available as etexts and can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3JQzuQlQtL3RDNxLWRUemNrQzA
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
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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
Thomas Wyatt -Whoso List To Hunt
Philip Sidney - Astrophil And Stella I
Edmund Spenser - Amoretti Lxxv
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare - The Tempest
John Donne - The Sun Rising
John Donne - Holy Sonnet 7
Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
Richard Crashaw - On Our Crucified Lord, Naked And Bloody
John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book 1
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
Alexander Pope - The Rape Of The Lock
William Cowper - To The Nightingale, Which The Author Heard Sing On New Year's Day
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
Robert Browning - Caliban Upon Setebos
Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market
All texts are made available as etexts and can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3JQzuQlQtL3RDNxLWRUemNrQzA
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; ; the programme above is valid only till January/February 2017.
- Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)
Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.
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