{"id":22152,"date":"2015-09-03T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=22152"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:37:11","slug":"introduction-to-english-literature-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=22152&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to English literature 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:<\/strong> Introduction to English literature 1
\nCourse coordinators: <\/strong>Dr. Vanja Poli\u0107, Assoc. Prof. and Dr. Sven Cvek, Assist. Prof.
\nInstructors:<\/strong> Cvek, Poli\u0107, Domines Veliki, Klepa\u010d, Tutek
\nECTS credits<\/strong>: 4
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English
\nDuration<\/strong>: 1 (winter) semester
\nStatus<\/strong>: obligatory
\nCourse type:<\/strong> 1 hour of lecture and 1 hour of seminar <\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements:<\/strong> continuous assessment. For those students who have fulfilled all elements of continuous assessment but have not passed the midterm and\/or endterm exams, three additional remedial dates will be organized (one in each term period).<\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> This course offers a genealogical overview of the paradigms of literary theory from classical antiquity to the beginning of the twentieth century. Apart from describing the evolution of literary theory until its establishment as a formal discipline, the course also maps the development of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the beginning of the twentieth century. It exposes students to British and American literary works from different historical periods and introduces them to the major literary movements and most influential authors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Objective:<\/strong> The course is an introduction into various methodologies and theories in literary studies. The students are expected to develop close reading and analytical skills.<\/span><\/p>\n

Student obligations:<\/strong> The final grade is based on continuous assessment which includes regular attendance (max. absences allowed: 4), preparation for and participation in class, obligatory sitting for midterm and endterm exams. Midterm and endterm exams are worth 50% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 50% of the final grade. Students must fulfil all elements of continuous assessment to pass the course.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weekly schedule:<\/strong><\/span>
\nWeek 1
\na. Course overview + student obligations
\nb. Problems of defining the object of study
\nLiterature\/literary theory\/periodization<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2
\na. Classical Greek Criticism
\n– poiesis; mimesis vs. diegesis; showing vs. telling; poiesis. vs philosophy; poiesis vs. history; rhetoric; allegory and allegorical interpretation; classical genres; drama
\nPlato. The Republic; Ion (extracts)
\nAristotle. Poetics (extracts)
\nHeraclitus the Allegorist. Homeric Problems (extracts)
\nb. Classical Roman Criticism
\n– the Augustan Age; imitation; prescriptive vs. descriptive poetics; dulce et utile; translatio studii; art as craft;
\nHorace. Ars Poetica (extracts)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3
\nThe Middle Ages
\n– early vs. high vs. later Middle Ages; Christianity; vernacular literature; allegory and allegorical interpretation
\nMedieval poetics (extract)
\nBeowulf (OE; Anglo-Saxon worldview; alliterative verse) (extract)
\nGeoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (ME, \u201cmiddle world\u201d; medieval genres; heroic couplet) (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4
\nRenaissance\/Early Modern Period
\n– The Elizabethan Age (Shakespearean\/English sonnet, Elizabethan drama); the Reformation; humanism; printing; discoveries of the New World; the new cosmos; belles-lettres
\nSir Philip Sidney. Defence of Poesie
\nShakespeare (any sonnet)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5
\na. The Seventeenth Century
\n– continuities and transformations in poetic theory; the metaphysical conceit as a literary procedure vs. metaphor as the most fundamental figure of speech
\nFrancis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (selection)
\nJohn Donne \u201cA Valediction: Forbidding Mourning\u201d; \u201cThe Flea\u201d (selection)
\nGeorge Herbert \u201cDeath\u201d; \u201cMan\u201d (selection)
\nJohn Milton (selection)
\nb. The Neoclassical Period
\n– The Restoration vs. the Age of Pope vs. the Age of Johnson; art as craft; wit; decorum; verisimilitude; ancients and moderns (Swift); constitution of the novel (Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne etc)
\nSamuel Johnson \u201cThe Preface to Shakespeare\u201d
\nAlexander Pope. \u201cAn Essay on Criticism\u201d (extract)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 6
\nThe Romantic Movement
\n– empiricist vs. idealist philosophy (Locke vs. Kant); imagination, the principle of organic form; the willing suspension of disbelief; American transcendentalism
\nWilliam Wordsworth \u201cPreface\u201d Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed.
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge Biographia Literaria (extract)
\nRalph Waldo Emerson. \u201cThe Poet\u201d; \u201cNature\u201d (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 7
\nThe Victorian Period
\n– pre-Raphaelites vs. Victorian\/Realist vs. Aestheticism and Decadence; realist novel (literary realism); text-based vs. idea-based criticism (Arnold vs. Pater)
\nMatthew Arnold \u201cThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time\u201d
\nOscar Wilde \u201cPreface\u201d The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 8
\nMidterm exam<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 9
\nNew Criticism
\n– intrinsic\/extrinsic; close-reading; I.A. Richards (metaphor)
\nT. S. Eliot \u201cThe Metaphysical Poets\u201d, \u201cTradition and the Individual Talent\u201d (selection)
\nCleanth Brooks \u201cThe Well-Wrought Urn\u201d
\nRen\u00e9 Wellek and Austin Warren: Chapters \u201cThe Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art\u201d; The Nature and Modes of Narrative Fiction\u201d Theory of Literature (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 10
\nFerdinand de Saussure
\nstructural linguistics; language\/reality; structure; langue\/parole, linguistic sign; arbitrariness; semiology\/semiotics
\n\u201cCourse in General Linguistics\u201d (extracts)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 11
\nRussian Formalism
\n– literary vs. poetic language; literariness; devices, estrangement\/defamiliarization; laying bare; poetry, fabula\/syzhet; the dominant
\nViktor Shklovsky \u201cArt as Technique\u201d; Roman Jakobson \u201cLinguistics and Poetics\u201d; Boris Eichenbaum \u201cIntroduction to the Formal Method\u201d (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 12
\nNarratology
\n– story\/discourse; order\/duration; frequency; setting; characters (Genette, Chatman)
\n*practical part (close-reading of a short story from British or American modernism)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 13
\nNarratology continued
\n– point of view \/focalization; levels of focalization
\n*practical part (close-reading of a short story from British or American modernism)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 14
\nEndterm exam<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading list:<\/strong><\/span>
\n\uf02d Shorter literary texts as selected by individual instructor (provided in class)
\n\uf02d John Peck and Martin Coyle. A Brief History of English Literature. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
\n\uf02d M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th ed., New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999 (1957).
\n\uf02d Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Manchester\/New York: Manchester University Press, 2002 (1995). (selection)
\n\uf02d Richard Harland, Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes. An Introduction History. Hamshire\/New York: Palgrave, 1999. (selection)
\n\uf02d Seymour Chatman, Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca\/London: Cornell University Press, 1980 (1978). (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Course title: Introduction to English literature 1 Course coordinators: Dr. Vanja Poli\u0107, Assoc. Prof. and Dr. Sven Cvek, Assist. Prof. Instructors: Cvek, Poli\u0107, Domines Veliki, Klepa\u010d, Tutek ECTS credits: 4 Language: English Duration: 1 (winter) semester Status: obligatory Course type: 1 hour of lecture and 1 hour of seminar Course requirements: continuous assessment. For those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152","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=22152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34657,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22152\/revisions\/34657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}