Survey of English Literature II 2012

Syllabus

Spring

Instructors: Doc. dr. sc. Boris Beric - boris.beric@bj.t-com.hr A. Ragu, strani lektor - andjelka.raguz@ffmo.ba Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th ed., vols. I & II www.wwnorton.com/nael A Glossary of Literary Terms. Ed. M. H. Abrams Charles Dickens, Hard Times George Orwell, Animal Farm Samuel Beckett, Happy Days Reading Assignments Week Week 1 Week 2 Lectures Tutorials Introduction to Survey of English Literature II The Poetry of Sensibility and PreRomanticism: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village; George Crabbe, The Village William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; Robert Burns, To a Mouse The Romantic Period: Edmund Burke, From Reflections; Thomas Paine, From The Rights of Man; Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village; George Crabbe, The Village. William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence and The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience

Week 3

Week 4

Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Week 5 Week 6

Byron, She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, When a Man Hath; Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty; Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn The Victorian Age: John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women Charles Dickens, Hard Times Tennyson, The Lotos Eaters; Browning, Porphyrias Lover; Gabriel Dante Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel; Walter Pater, From The Renaissance; Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

Charles Dickens, Hard Times

Week 7

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

Week 8

MID-TERM EXAM TO BE ORGANISED OUT OF CLASS Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Survey of English Literature II 2012 Week 9

Syllabus

Spring

The Twentieth Century: Rupert Brooke, The Soldier; Siegfred Sassoon, The Rear-Guard, The General; Isaac Rosenberg, Louse Hunting, Returning, We Hear the Larks; Wilfried Owen, Apologia Pro Poemate Meo, Dulce et Decorum Est W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan; T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent; W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction; James Joyce, The Dead; D. H. Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters

Week 10

T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14

James Joyce, The Dead

George Orwell, Politics and the George Orwell, Animal Farm English Language, Animal Farm Samuel Beckett, Happy Days Philip Larkin, Church Going; Thom Gunn, Black Jackets; Ted Hughes, Examination at the Womb-Door and Theology Tony Harrison, Heredity; Seamus Heaney, Digging

Thom Gunn, Black Jackets

Week 15

Edna OBrien, Sister Imelda END OF TERM EXAM TO BE ORGANISED OUT OF CLASS FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE PASSED THE MID-TERM EXAM.

Course Policy The grades for this course will be calculated from the following: OPTION 1 Quizzes and 20% participation Essay 30% Final examination 50% OPTION 2 Quizzes and participation 20% Mid-term exam End-term exam 40% 40%

Your final grade is based on your total performance in this course. Late papers will be penalized, as will any plagiarism and cheating. To work or not to work? THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!