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Literary courses: Semester 3 and 5, 4 and 6 (undergraduate)

Literary courses – Semester 3 and 5 (Winter) 2024-2025
(A=American literature, B=British literature)


Alternative Worlds in Contemporary British Fiction (Polak) (B) (20th c)
American Postmodernism and Popular Culture (Cvek) (A) (20th c.)
Aspects of American Romanticism (Šesnić) (A) (19th c.)
British Romanticism: poetry (Domines Veliki) (B) (19th c.)

Creating Place Out of Space: Early Australian Literature (Klepač) (B) (19th c.)
Contemporary American Novel (Tutek) (A) (20th c.)

Victorian Literature: Genres and  Issues (Knežević) (B) (19th c.)
Victorian novel. Poetics and Politics (Jukić) (B) (19th c.)
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Literary Courses: Semester 4 and 6 (Summer) 2024-2025
(A=American literature, B=British literature)

American Short Story (Cvek) (A) (19th/20th c.)
American Modernism (Cvek, Tutek) (A) (20th c.)
The Anthropocene in British and Australian Fiction and Film (Polak) (B) (20th c)
British Romanticism: prose
(Domines Veliki) (B) (19th c.)

Cool Britannia? British drama in the period 1956 – 2008 (Klepač) (B) (20th c.)

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel
(Knežević) (B) (19th c.)
Beginnings of the Modern Novel in the 18th-century England (Polić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.)

Shakespeare (Brlek) (B) (Early Modern)
Contemporary Canadian Literature in English (Polić) (B) (20th c.)
Victorian Literature and the Transformation of the World in the Nineteenth Century (Jukić) (B) (19th c.)
War, Reconstruction and Transformation: American Literature 1860-1914 (Šesnić) (A) (19th/20th c.)

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º For students who enrolled in Year 1 of Bologna studies in the academic year 2015/16 and later: Students enrolled in the 3rd and 5th semester select elective literary courses from the course list for the 3rd and 5th semester. Students enrolled in the 4th and 6th semester select elective literary courses from the course list for the 4th and 6th semester. Selection principle: one course in Early Modern literature or one course in Victorian literature; one course in British or American 20th-century literature; one course in British literature; one course in American literature. Each course fulfils two criteria (century + national literature). Introduction to English Literature 1 and Introduction to English Literature 2 are Year 1 obligatory courses. Students must pass both courses to enrol in any subsequent elective literary course.

º For students who enrolled in Year 1 of Bologna studies in the academic year 2005/06: Students select one course from literary courses offered for the 3rd semester. Until the 6th semester, apart from Introduction to English literature and Shakespeare, students must enrol in one literary course in the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th semester (the total of five literary courses during undergraduate studies). One of the remaining three elective courses, be it British, American or Anglophone (Australian, Canadian, Irish), must be labelled as a 19th-century course and one as a 20th-century course.

º For students who enrolled in Year 1 of Bologna studies in the academic year 2006/07 and later: Students enrolled in the 3rd and 5th semester select elective literary courses from the course list for the 3rd and 5th semester. Students enrolled in the 4th and 6th semester select elective literary courses from the course list for the 4th and 6th semester. Selection principle: one course in Early Modern literature or one course in Victorian literature; one course in British or American 20th-century literature; one course in British literature; one course in American literature. Each course fulfils two criteria (century + national literature). Introduction to English literature is the 1st semester obligatory course. Students must pass this course to enrol in any subsequent elective literary courses.