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Tidita Abdurrahmani, Prof. Asoc. Dr.

Code
ELL 101
Name
Introduction to Literature
Semester
1
Lecture hours
3.00
Seminar hours
0.00
Laborator hours
0.00
Credits
3.00
ECTS
5.00
Description

An introduction to short story from British and American Literature and Novels. Analysis of use of setting, character and theme and voice in literature, with author and cultural studies background.

Objectives

To improve English written and reading skills. To improve analysis of literature. To become acquainted with various forms of British and American literature. To analyze literature structure, style and genre. To critically write on exams analysis of vocabulary, metaphor, style, meaning and prose.

Java
Tema
1
Responding to literature and reading drama. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex considered
2
Sophocles Oedipus Rex continued
3
“Reading Poetry”; Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”; Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”
4
William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper”; John Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”; Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall”; A.E. Housman, “When I Was One-and-Twenty”; Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning”
5
“Reading Fiction” and Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
6
“Reading Essays” and Langston Hughes, “Salvation”
7
Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”
8
Midterm Exam.First Essay Due
9
Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us”; Claude McKay, “If We Must Die” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
10
Henrik Ibsen, “A Doll’s House”
11
Looking Deeper, From History to Literature/ Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
12
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”; Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
13
Second Essay Due/ Kate Chopin, “The Storm” /Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper"
14
John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”; Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
15
Ambrose Bierce An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/ Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
16
Final Exam
1
Introduction to the genres and the writings of British and American Literature
2
Improvement of the spoken and written skills in English
3
Enhancement of the analytical skills , and promotion of the knowledge on the authors, characters and cultural backgrounds
Quantity Percentage Total percent
Midterms
1 20% 20%
Quizzes
0 0% 0%
Projects
1 10% 10%
Term projects
1 15% 15%
Laboratories
0 0% 0%
Class participation
1 10% 10%
Total term evaluation percent
55%
Final exam percent
45%
Total percent
100%
Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
Course duration (including exam weeks)
16 3 48
Off class study hours
14 3 42
Duties
2 5 10
Midterms
1 5 5
Final exam
1 13 13
Other
2 4 8
Total workLoad
126
Total workload / 25 (hours)
5.04
ECTS
5.00