- Code
- ELL 215
- Name
- English Literature I
- Semester
- 3
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
During this course we will discuss a considerable number of authors that will help students to be introduced to English Literature and the impact of literature in Anglo-Saxon society and later on British society. Different periods off this literature will be analyzed and most important authors and their works.
- Objectives
-
Students will be encouraged to analyze famous literature works of different authors. Social factors during these periods will be also taken into consideration. Students will be able to express their feeling and knowledge and perform critical analysis of different texts.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Introduction to English Literature. English Invasion. Old English and Middle English period in language and culture; invasions and influences (450-1100)
- 2
- Medieval Literature: Beowulf epic poems ; G. Chaucer’s The Canterbury tales, (selected poems) (12th-14th cent)
- 3
- English Renaissance (1465-103): Thomas Wyatt sonnets; Raleigh Vs. Marlowe poems;
- 4
- Pre-Shakespearean drama: (17th cent) W. Shakespeare_ Life and Works - Plays _ Language difficulties; Elizabethan Theatre
- 5
- Analysis: Ch. Marlowe: Dr Faustus ;
- 6
- W. Shakespeare’s History Plays: Comedies; Tragedies: Critical analysis: Richard III; Coriolanus
- 7
- Puritan Age and Restoration Age – the fall of drama(18th cent)
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Neoclassicism & Metaphysical poetry: Social, economic and literary characteristics
- 10
- Analysis: J. Donne; A. Marvell; R. Herrick (selected poems)
- 11
- Classic Poetry: The Age of Enlightenment: Milton’s Paradise Lost (selected pasages) ; poems of J. Dryden;
- 12
- Analysis: Classic Literature: Prose: D. Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
- 13
- Analysis: Classic Literature: Prose: J. Swift: Gulliver’s Travels;
- 14
- Romantic Poetry: Byron; Burns, Blake ; Shelley; Keats; (selected poems)
- 15
- Victorian Poetry: Browning; Bronte; Wordsworth; (selected poems)
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Knowledge about different authors their work and periods of English Literature
- 2
- Critical analysis of different texts
- 3
- Discussing different types of text and critical reading
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 30% 30%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 30% 30%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 60%
- Final exam percent
- 40%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 0 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 15 15
- Other
- 1 9 9
- Total workLoad
- 124
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 4.96
- ECTS
- 5.00