II BA English Literature 2015/16
Syllabus
Tutor: dr Monika Mazurek/dr Anna Pietrzykowska-Motyka
anpiet_m@upcpoczta.pl
http://chomikuj.pl/mazurekAP/English+LIterature+Year+II+dzienni
Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne: “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “The Sun Rising”, “The Flea”, Holy Sonnets XIV (“Batter my heart...”); George Herbert “Easter Wings”, “The Collar”
Cavalier Poets: John Suckling, “Why so pale and wan, fond lover?”; Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time”, Richard Lovelace “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”. Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”
Jacobean Tragedy John Ford `Tis Pity She's a Whore (available on my website)
John Milton, Paradise Lost extracts from Book One and Nine
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock - extracts
The birth of the novel. Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders and Samuel Richardson Pamela (both in extracts)
Preromanticism - Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto
William Blake, Songs of Innocence: “Introduction”, “The Lamb” “The Chimney Sweeper”. “Holy Thursday”; Songs of Experience: “Introduction”, “The Tyger”, “The Chimney Sweeper”, “Holy Thursday”
Romantic Poetry: William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, “Lucy Gray”, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, “The Daffodils”, “We are Seven”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “Kubla Khan”
George Gordon Lord Byron “She walks in beauty”, “So, we'll go no more a roving”, Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ode to the West Wind”, “Ozymandias”, “The Cloud”, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
13. John Keats, “To Autumn”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to a Nightingale” “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
14. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
15. Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
Course requirements:
1. Read the assigned texts BEFORE the class and, in case of poetry classes, bring the texts to the class.
2. Most of the assigned poems are available in The Norton Anthology of English Literature which is the obligatory handbook. While all the poems are easily available on the Internet, they are usually plain vanilla versions without footnotes, without which you may find many of them incomprehensible.
3. The assigned texts are accompanied by study guides which will be published on my website. Read the study guides together with the assigned texts and spend a moment thinking about the possible answers.
4. Some of the classes are going to start with flash tests (one question, usually taken from study guides or checking your knowledge of the text). Passing the majority of the tests is the condition to receive the pass grade (“zaliczenie”) for the course. THERE WILL BE NO POSSIBILITY OF MAKING UP FOR THE TESTS YOU FAILED OR MISSED FOR REASONS OTHER THAN AN ILNESS.
5. Students are allowed two absences per course FOR REASONS OTHER THAN an illness confirmed by a sick note.