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| COURSE DETAILS Core Courses 1. History of Language, Old and Middle English Literature AH ISTORY OF L ANGUAGE : THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY MODERN PROSE. Origins of the English language and its place in the Indo-European literature 2. Early foreign influences on the vocabulary of English 3. Orthography and pronunciation 4. The triumph of the vernacular Chaucer to Shakespeare, incl. Bible translations BOLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE History of Old and Middle English Literature from the beginnings to c, looking at the key primary texts in translation. 4 Texts K. Crossley-Holland, The Anglo-Saxon World S.A.J. Bradley, Anglo-Saxon Poetry Michael Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Prose B. Stone, Medieval English Verse Recommended reading Greenfield & Calder, A New Critical History of Old English Literature Michael Swanton, English Literature before Chaucer Barron, Medieval English Romance C.L. Wrenn, The English Language 2. English Literature 1500-1630 AB ACKGROUNDHistorical introduction to the Renaissance B. DRAMA. Two plays by Shakespeare 2. One play by Marlowe C. P OETRY Selections from the poetry of Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Elizabeth I, Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne DP ROSESelections from Bacon’s Essays, Sidney’s Arcadia and More’s Utopia Recommended reading Douglas Bush, Prefaces to Renaissance Literature Hardin Craig, The Enchanted Glass A.L. Rowse, The Elizabethan Renaissance David Norbrook, Politics and Poetry in Renaissance England L.C. Knights, Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson Frances Yates, Astraea Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning David Aers, Bob Hodge and Gunther Kress, eds, Literature, Language and Society in England, 1560-1680 Julia Briggs, This Stage-Play World 3. English Literature 1630-1760 5 1) A B ACKGROUND History, politics and culture 1630-1760 B. Drama One play by John Dryden William Congreve John Gay C. POETRY SELECTIONS FROM) 1. Milton, Marvell 2. Religious poetry Vaughan, Crashaw and Traherne 3. Phillips, Finch 4. Satire Pope, Rochester, Dryden, Johnson D. F ICTION Two novels by Aphra Behn/ Daniel Defoe Henry Fielding E. P ROSE Any one of the following components 1. Pamphlets 2. Periodical essays 3. Journals 4. Biographies Recommended reading Jeremy Blacked, An Illustrated History of Eighteenth Century Britain, 1688- 1793 James Clifford, ed, Eighteenth Century English Literature Modern Essays in Criticism Bonamy Dobree, The Oxford History of English Literature Vol. 7 Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down Radical Ideas During the English Revolution Ian Jack, Augustan Satire Intention and Idiom in English Poetry 1660-1750 Ronald Paulson , Satire and Novel in Eighteenth Century England Pat Rogers, The Augustan Vision James Sambrook, The Eighteenth Century The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1700-1789 Basil Willey, The Seventeenth Century Background Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion 4. English Literature 1760-1830 1) A B ACKGROUND The historical context of the Romantic Movement B. F ICTION 1. Two novels by Mary Shelley / Jane Austen / Walter Scott / Peacock 6 C. POETRY SELECTIONS FROM) Gray, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Robinson, Clare, Charlotte Smith DP ROSEExtracts from Burke, Paine, Godwin, Lamb, Hazlitt, Wollstonecraft, De Quincey Recommended reading Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries Boris Forded, New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 5 Download 311.78 Kb. Share with your friends:
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