- 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
- Introduction to the Course. Reading understanding and interpreting literature. The author, the reader and the text.
- 2
- Literary genres. Prose, poetry and drama
- 3
- Critical strategies for reading. The Formalist, Historical and Marxist and Feminist approaches to literature
- 4
- Reading imaginative literature. Reading fiction. Kate Chopin Story of an hour and William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
- 5
- Setting, narrator, characters and plot in the short fiction. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Theyellow wallpaper, Tim O Brien How to tell a true war story and Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- 6
- Style ,diction, tone and irony.Flannery O Connor A Good man is hard to find
- 7
- Reading, understanding and interpreting essays. Langston Hughes Salvation
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Analyzing and interpreting poetry. Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us”; Claude McKay, “If We Must Die” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”, Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
- 10
- Imagery and other elements of poetry John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”; Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
- 11
- Looking Deeper, From History to Literature/ Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
- 12
- An introduction into the theatrical conventions. Henrik Ibsen, “A Doll’s House”
- 13
- Dramatic expression and dramatic structure Sophocles Oedipus
- 14
- The genre of non-fiction and nonfictional writing
- 15
- Writing about literature. The literary essay.
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Receive and master introductory knowledge about the genres and the writings of British and American Literature
- 2
- Improve the spoken and written skills in English
- 3
- Enhance their analytical skills , and promote their 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 14 14
- Final exam
- 1 11 11
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 125
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.00
- ECTS
- 5.00