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AKL 2003 C Part of basic 5 ECTS credits studies Title BRITŲ LITERATŪROS APŽVALGA (NUO 1660) Title in English SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (FROM 1660) Subject annotation in English (up to 500 symbols) Students become acquainted with major English Neo-Classical, Romantic, Victorian, Decadent, Modernist and contemporary writers and their texts. They get used to thinking critically and analytically, and discussing literary texts independently. By the end of the course they are able to distinguish the major features of different cultural periods and to refer to their norms while analysing texts. They will also have gained experience in analysing literary texts in essay form according to different critical approaches. Necessary background knowledge for the study of the subject - Study outcomes (up to 600 symbols) Through this course students ● Become familiar with some of the major figures and works in 18th, 19th and 20th century English literature; ● Become able to distinguish different cultural periods and movements and understand their dominant characteristics; ● Are now able to apply this knowledge to an analysis of the works of each period; ● Learn to choose appropriate critical approaches in the written analysis of a text. Subject contents (up to 1200 symbols) Cultural changes in the Restoration period. The Englightenment in England. Swift’s satire in Gulliver’s Travels. Mary Shelley’s Gothic writing. Early Romanticism: William Blake’s poems. Romanticism and revolution in Byron’s poems. Nature in William and Dorothy Wordsworth’s work. Victorian society. The PreRaphaelite movement: the Rossettis. The “New Woman” phenomenon: Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession. The Decadent movement (Wilde, Symons). Irish cultural changes and Yeats’ poetry. Forms of modernist poetry and prose (T.S.Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf). World War I poetry. Feminism in Doris Lessing’s “To Room 19”. Seamus Heaney’s poetry. Study hours Lectures – 22,5 hours Seminars –22,5 hours Individual student assignments – 75 hours Evaluation of study results Mid-term– 30% Essay and seminar work - 20% Final examination – 50%. Literature Abrams, M.H. et al., eds. (1986) Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vols.1 & 2. W.W. Norton. Baldick, C. (1990) Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford UP. Carter,R & J. McCrae. (1997) Routledge History of Literature in English. Routledge Cuddon, J.A. (1991) Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. 3rd ed. Penguin Programme prepared by Prof. Dr. Milda Danytė, Dr. Audronė Raškauskienė, assistant Kristina Aurylaitė