Программа обучения курса

Unit 1 The Literature of the Middle Ages.

The dawn of English Literature.

The ancient times of Britain.

Anglo-Saxon Literature (the 7^th-11^th cc).

The Literature of the Norman period (the 12^th-13^th cc.).

 

Unit 2 Pre-renaissance period in England.

The Literature of the 14^th c. G.Chaucer and his contribution to Literature.

“The Canterbury tales”- a masterpiece of G.Chaucer.

The Literature of the 15^th c. W.Caxton, The Wars of Roses.

The Robin Hood ballads.

 

Unit 3 The English Renaissance.

1^st period- Thomas More. Humanism – a new outlook.

‘Utopia “ as the 1st sample of utopian novel.

2d period – Edmund Spencer. Theatre and drama.

W. Shakespeare’s contribution to World Literature

“University wits” or the Academic writers.

 

Unit 4 The Restoration in English literature.

The Restoration. The development of Journalism.

John Milton - the representative of the Puritan revolution.

 

Unit 5 The Enlightenment.

1^st period – D.Defoe. J.Swift.

The 2d period. English Realistic novel. Henry Fielding.

The new literary trend – Sentimentalism. S.Richardson.

The 3d period - R.Sheridan, R.Burns

 

Unit 6 The Romantic period in the English Literature.

The passive romanticists.

The Lake Poets - W.Wordsworth, R.Southey, S.Coleridge.

The Revolutionary romanticists – P.B.Shelley, G.G.Byron,W.Scott.

 

 

Unit 7 The Critical Realism.

The 1^st half of the 19^th c. The Chartist movement.

Ernest Jones. C.Dickens, W.Thackeray, C.Bronte.

The last half of the 19^th c. The Fabian society.

G.Eliot, T.Hardy, B.Shaw.

The Decadent Literature - “Art for art’s sake”.

 

Unit 8  Main literary trends at the end of the 19^th and the beginning of the 20^th cc

Realism. T.Hardy

Naturalism. Gissing

The twenties and the thirties.

Neoromantism-Stevenson, J,Conrad.

Aesthetism- O. Wilde, R.Kipling

 

Unit 9 The Literature of the 20^th c.

Post-war Literature - W.Woolf, J,Joyce, J,Conrad.

The sixties. New type of literature – “Working-class novel”.

The Angry Young Men - J.Wain, K.Amis, J.Osborne.

 

Unit 10 New phenomenon and tendencies in literature.

Modern English writers- G.Greene, I.Murdock, A.Christie,  J.Rowling.

Modern poetry.

Modern drama. „Harry Potter“ – the modern best-seller.