Reading List for History of EL (2016-2017, Semester 1)
Dr Monika Mazurek
http://chomikuj.pl/mazurekAP/English+LIterature+Year+II+dzienni
The Anglo-Saxon Period
1. THE ELEGIAC TRADITION: The Wanderer, Deor's Lament. THE EARLY RELIGIOUS TRADITION: The Dream of the Rood.
2. THE HEROIC TRADITION: Beowulf (“Prologue” - ll. 1 - 98, Beowulf's Fight with Grendel” - ll. 710 - 823, “The Lament” ll. 2241 - 2270, “Beowulf's Funeral' - ll. 3137 - 3182)
The Middle English Period
3. MEDIEVAL ROMANCE: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (selection: Part 1, Part 3), Thomas Mallory Morte d'Arthur - “Conspiracy against Lancelot and Guinevere” (NAEL)
4. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (“The General Prologue”, “The Description of the Wife of Bath”, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale” “The Prologue to the Miller's Tale”, “The Miller's Tale”)
* since NAEL editors chose to publish Chaucer in the original spelling, students (while encouraged to give it a try) are permitted to read a modern-spelling version.
RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
5. Elizabethan poetry - sonnets:
William Shakespeare (The Sonnets: I, XII, XVIII, XIX, XX, LV, LVII, CXVI, CXXIX, CXXX, CXXXVIII, CXLIV)
6. Renaissance drama: William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Anthologies:
The College Anthology of English Literature. Eds Zygmunt Mazur and Teresa Bela. Kraków: Universitas, 1997.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Eds. Stephen Greenblatt et al. Vol 1. New York: Norton, 2006. (NAEL)
Course requirements
All classes are accompanied by study guides on my website. Students are required to read them as well as the assigned texts before the class.
In order to receive “zaliczenie” for the course and be allowed to take the exam in the first session, you have to pass the majority of “flash tests”. “Flash tests” are very short tests checking the students' knowledge of the text assigned for this week's class. They will not be announced in advance.
Students are allowed 1 (one) absences from the class (“ćwiczenia”) and 1 (one) absence from the lecture (“wykład”) for reasons OTHER THAN an illness confirmed by a sick note.