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Emne ENG116_1, ENGELSK, 2014 HØST, versjon 31-May-2015 23:45:01 Introduction to British and Irish Literature Course Code: ENG116_1, Credits: 10 credits Offered by: Faculty of Arts and Education,

1 Emne ENG116_1, ENGELSK, 2014 HØST, versjon 31-May :45:01 Introduction to British and Irish Literature Course Code: ENG116_1, Credits: 10 credits Offered by: Faculty of Arts and Education, Department of Cultural Studies and Languages Semester tuition start & duration: Autumn, 1 semester Exam term: Autumn Language of instruction: English Course staff - Monica Lange (Programme coordinator) - Janne Stigen Drangsholt (Course coordinator ) - Brita Strand Rangnes (Course teacher) - Liv Christina Varen (Programme coordinator) - Karen Marie Espeland (Programme coordinator) Introduction This course provides an introduction to key texts, authors and literary periods in literatures in English from Great Britain and Ireland. Learning outcome Knowledge At the end of the course, students are expected to possess knowledge of: The literary, historical and cultural frameworks that the texts emerge from Modern and classic literary texts in English from different geographical areas Underpinning thoughts and trends in literature in English from Shakespeare up to the present English literature as world literature Skills At the end of the course, the student should have acquired these skills: Be able to analyse and understand modern and classic English literary texts Be able to recognize and discuss different literary genres such as drama, poetry and prose and place them within a literary, geographical and historical context Be able to understand and discuss opposing views on literary texts General competence page 1

2 ENG116_1 - Introduction to British and Irish Literature At the end of the course, the students will be able to: Express themselves in correct, varied and precise English, about matters concerning literature and culture Understand, discuss and contextualize literary texts in English Content English is a global literary language and English literature is produced all over the world. This course provides an introduction to key texts, authors and literary periods in literatures in English from Great Britain and Ireland. The texts (drama, prose, poetry and essays) range from Shakespeare up until the present and will be read within a literary, cultural, geographical and sociohistorical framework. Teaching methods Lectures. Required prerequisite knowledge None Exam Wt. Duration Marks Aid Written exam 1/1 5 hours A - F English-English dictionary. Overlapping courses Course Reduction (credits) An Introduction to Literature in English (ENG115_1) 10 An Introduction to Literature in English (LENG115_1) 10 Introduction to British and Irish Literature (LENG116_1) 10 British and Irish Literature (ENG105_1) 10 British and Irish Literature (MENG105_1) 10 Open to English Language and Literature - Bachelor's Degree Programme, History - Bachelor's Degree Programme, Nordic Language and Literature - Bachelor's Degree Programme, Teacher Education including an MA. Other students must apply within the given deadlines. Course assessment Quality control by students is a central element of the UiS plan to improve teaching. In the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages this system includes student evaluation of page 2

3 Emne ENG116_1, ENGELSK, 2014 HØST, versjon 31-May :45:01 courses. Literature Endringer i pensumlisten kan forekomme fram til semesterstart. Most of the texts are to be found in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, package 2 (ninth edition). The texts that are marked by * should be bought separately (available at SiS bookstore). The texts marked by ** will be available in a compendium that can be bought at Attende at the beginning of term. Literary history: Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context (Cambridge, 2008) Jonathan Bate, English Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010) Literary Terms: Abrams, M. H. and G. H. Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms (10th revised edition), (Cengage Learning, 2011) The Renaissance: Drama: *William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Oxford School Shakespeare, 2009) **William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" ** John Donne, Holy Sonnets 14: "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you" **Thomas Campion, "There is a Garden In Her Face" **Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" The Restoration and Eighteenth century: **Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" page 3

4 ENG116_1 - Introduction to British and Irish Literature Mary Wollstonecraft, "Introduction" to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The Romantic Period: William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" Fiction: *Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Penguin Classics, 2003) William Wordsworth, from "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (The Subject and the Language of Poetry", "Emotion Recollected in Tranquility") The Victorian Period: John Clare, "I Am" Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" Christina Rossetti, "In an Artist's Studio" Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House" Fiction: * Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Edition, 2001) Florence Nightingale, "Cassandra" page 4

5 Emne ENG116_1, ENGELSK, 2014 HØST, versjon 31-May :45:01 Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (Disinterested Kindness) Charles Darwin, from The Origin of the Species (from chapter 3) The Twentieth Century: Thomas Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush" Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" W.B. Yeats, "Easter, 1916" T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" W.H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts" Stevie Smith, "Not Waving but Drowning" Seamus Heaney, "Digging" Ted Hughes, "The Thought-Fox" ** Jo Shapcott, "Motherland" **Alice Oswald: "Field" Fiction: *Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women" T. E. Hulme, from Romanticism and Classicism Drama: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot *Sarah Kane, Cleansed page 5

6 ENG116_1 - Introduction to British and Irish Literature This is the study programme for 2014/2015. It is subject to change. page 6

Course Policies and Requirements for British Literature II

Course Policies and Requirements for British Literature II Professor: Course: Jack Peters English 3440, Section 002 209 Language 10:00-10:50 a.m. MWF Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature,