{"id":19020,"date":"2011-10-20T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19020"},"modified":"2018-03-03T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T07:55:09","slug":"theory-and-history-of-the-novel-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19020&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Theory and History of the Novel in English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:\u00a0 <\/strong>Theory and History of the Novel in English<\/span>
\nInstructor<\/strong>: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107<\/span>
\nECTS credits: <\/strong>6<\/span>
\nStatus:<\/strong> elective<\/span>
\nSemester: <\/strong>2nd<\/sup>\u00a0 <\/strong>and 4th
\n<\/sup>Enrollment requirements:\u00a0 <\/strong>Enrollment in the graduate programme<\/span>
\nCourse description:<\/strong> This course is meant to provide an introduction to the history and theory of the novel in English.\u00a0 Our reading will include novels ranging from the period of the emergence of the novel as a genre at the beginning of the 18th<\/sup> century to the postmodern period of the late 20th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 In reading and discussing a substantial amount of secondary literature, focusing on issues of periodization, narrative, genre, and the social context. <\/span>
\nObjectives:<\/strong> The course is designed to facilitate active student engagement with issues in literary interpretation and history, as well as to create a structured theoretical context for analytical writing on literary subjects.<\/span>
\nCourse requirements: <\/strong>The grade is based on a written essay at the end of term (5-6) pages, a mid-term quiz and a quiz at the end of term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule:
\n<\/strong>1. week: Introduction.\u00a0 Beginnings of the genre. Definition of the novel.\u00a0 Ian Watt.<\/span>
\n2. week: Robinson Crusoe<\/em>.\u00a0 McKeon.<\/span>
\n3. week: Mansfield Park<\/em>.\u00a0 Stone.\u00a0 Morretti.<\/span>
\n4. week: Mansfield Park<\/em>.\u00a0 Armstrong.<\/span>
\n5. week: Lukacs.<\/span>
\n6. week: To the Lighthouse.\u00a0 <\/em>Woolf. Chatman.<\/span>
\n7. week: Mid-term quiz<\/strong>. <\/span>
\n8. week: To the Lighthouse<\/em>.<\/span>
\n9. week: The Crying of Lot 49.
\n<\/em>10. week: The Crying of Lot 49. <\/em>Bakhtin. Jameson.<\/span>
\n11. week: Essay due
\n<\/strong>12. week: Song of Solomon<\/em>.
\n<\/em>13. week: Song of Solomon<\/em>.<\/span>
\n14. week: Second quiz<\/strong>. Song of Solomon<\/em>.<\/span>
\n15. week: Course summary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Novels<\/span>
\nDaniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
\n<\/em>Jane Austen, Mansfield<\/em> Park
\n<\/em>Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
\n<\/em>Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
\n<\/em>Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Criticism<\/span>
\nMikhail Bakhtin, from The Dialogic Imagination
\n<\/em>Michael McKeon, from The Origins of the Novel
\n<\/em>Georg Lukacs, from Theory of the Novel
\n<\/em>Franco Moretti, from Atlas of the European Novel
\n<\/em>Nancy Armstrong, from Desire and Domestic Fiction
\n<\/em>Lawrence Stone, from The Family, Sex and Marriage
\n<\/em>Ian Watt, from The Rise of the Novel
\n<\/em>E.M. Forster, from Aspects of the Novel
\n<\/em>Seymour Chatman, from Story and Discourse
\n<\/em>Fredric Jameson, from Postmodernism<\/em><\/span>
\nVirginia Woolf, \u201cModern Fiction\u201d
\n<\/em>Henry James, \u201cThe Art of Fiction\u201d
\nViktor Shklovsky,<\/em> \u201cSterne\u2019s Tristram Shandy\u201d<\/em><\/span>
\nF.R. Leavis, from The Great Tradition<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Course title:\u00a0 Theory and History of the Novel in English Instructor: Prof. Borislav Kne\u017eevi\u0107 ECTS credits: 6 Status: elective Semester: 2nd\u00a0 and 4th Enrollment requirements:\u00a0 Enrollment in the graduate programme Course description: This course is meant to provide an introduction to the history and theory of the novel in English.\u00a0 Our reading will include novels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-i-10-semestar-knjizevni-kolegiji-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32058,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19020\/revisions\/32058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}