- •Luhansk taras shevchenko national university
- •Course Structure
- •Lectures
- •Practical classes
- •Golden rules
- •List of literature
- •English
- •American
- •Reference Literature and Sources Books
- •Internet Sources
- •Topics for Essays
- •Practical Class 1
- •I. Geoffrey Chaucer – “father of English literature”
- •II. Work with text and its parts The General Prologue
- •III Language
- •List of Literature and Other Sources
- •Practical Class 2. Literature of the Renaissance Age. William Shakespeare
- •William Shakespeare
- •Sonnets
- •V. Vysotsky:
- •I. Smoktunovsky:
- •Extra writing task*
- •Bibliography
- •Practical Class 3. Romanticism in English Literature
- •Questions for general analysis
- •Bibliography
- •Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy”: “bomb hitting the novel form”
- •Dickens’s “Dombey and Son”
- •Practical Class 5
- •Sources
- •Рекомендуются к просмотру:
- •Application 3
- •Application 4
- •Practical class 7 Narrator and Narrative Techniques in the 20th Century Novel Texts
- •Questions for discussion John Fowles “The Collector”
- •Iris Murdoch “The Black Prince”
- •William Faulkner 'The Sound and the Fury'
- •Ken Kesey “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
- •Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita”
- •Sources
- •Project class
American
Henry Wardsworth Longfellow. The Song of Hiawatha — Лонгфелло Г. Песнь о Гайавате.
Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie — Драйзер Т. Сестра Керри.
Poe Edgar Allan. Stories. Raven. Annabel Lee — По Эдгар Аллан. Рассказы. Ворон. Аннабел Ли
Jerome David Salinger. Catcher in the Rye — Сэлинджер Д. Д. Над пропастью во ржи
Ernest Hemingway. Farewell to Arms — Хемингуэй Э. Прощай, оружие
Tennesee Williams. The Streetcar Named Desire. — Уильямс Т. Трамвай «Желание».
William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury — Фолкнер У. Шум и ярость
Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest — Кизи К. Над кукушкиным гнездом.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita — Набоков В. Лолита
Reference Literature and Sources Books
The Oxford Companion to English Literature / Ed. by M. Drabble. – Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. – 1172 p.
Tuohey R. T. An Introduction to English Literature. – Electronic Edition : 2009 ; Originally published 2001, Taiyuan University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Аникст А. А. История английской литературы. – М. : Учпедгиз, 1956. – 632 с.
Атарова К. Н. Лоренс Стерн и его «Сентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии» : литературная критика / К. Н. Атарова. – М. : Высш. шк., 1988. – 93 с.
Гражданская З. Т. От Шекспира до Шоу. – М. : Просвещение, 1982. Доступ с: http://lib.rus.ec/b/193797/read
История английской литературы / под ред. И. И. Анисимова. – Москва-Ленинград : Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1958. – 734 с.
Михальская Н. П., Аникин Г. В. История английской литературы. Учебник для гуманитарных факультетов высших учебных заведений / Н. П. Михальская, Г. В. Аникин. – М. : Издательский центр «Академия», 1998. – 516 с. Доступ с: http://svr-lit.niv.ru/svr-lit/mihalskaya-anikin-angliya/index.htm
Набоков В. В. Лекции по зарубежной литературе. – М. : Независимая газета, 2000. – 512 с.
Путеводитель по английской литературе / под ред. М. Дрэббл и Дж. Стрингер. – М. : Радуга, 2003. – 455 с.
Саруханян А. П., Свердлов М. И. Английская литература от XIX века к XX, от XX к XIX : проблема взаимодействия литературных епох. – М. : ИМЛИ РАН, 2009. – 568 с.
Internet Sources
http://eur-lang.narod.ru/histart/unit_list.html
Russian language portal dedicated to British culture and literature; accessible language
http://readeralexey.narod.ru/ENGLIT.html
Russian language portal dedicated to English literature; sources and books are available to be downloaded
http://www.online-literature.com/periods/
Literature Network
http://www.ucm.es/info/siim/descargas/2.TheDevelopmentofEnglishLiterature.pdf
The Development of English Literature (Summary)
Topics for Essays
Essays should be your arguments based on literary texts
Essays should obviously contain examples and quotes from the texts
No plagiarism
Only 1-2 students per each topic
Recommended essay topics
(You can write an essay on a DIFFERENT topic, but in that case consult your tutor before you start working on it.)
Was Shakespeare a feminist?
How would a Freudian read Shakespeare?
The author and his reader: Christian literature as conversation (John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales)
Description of costume in English literature
A Man against Death in literature
Satan in English literature
Trickster in English literature
Attitudes of Man to Nature in poetry of Romanticism
Dickens's narrative strategies
Cats and horses in English literature
Image of London in English literature
Frankenstein’s Monster and Milton’s Satan
Anti-robinsonade in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”
“Lost generation” as characters (Septimus in “Mrs Dalloway”, Seymour in books by Salinger)
“Newspeak” in literature and modern society (Orwell’s “1984”, Burgess’s “The Clockwork Orange”, Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake”)
Gay and Lesbian Fiction
“Dystopia is merely a utopia from another point of view”
Colour symbolism in English modern poetry
21st century – it’s time to burn books
Involving 5 senses in Modernistic writings
Theatre of absurd – is it up-to-date?
Russian emigrants as American writers: “ours” or “theirs”? (Brodsky, Pasternak, Nabokov)
American humour in short stories (O’Henry, Twain, Poe)
Depiction of American dream in literature
Madness and mad people in literature
The Function of Art—Music, Painting, Architecture, Sculptures in English literature