Introduction to Literature in English

Tutor: dr hab. Monika Mazurek

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Website with materials: http://chomikuj.pl/mazurekAP/Introduction+to+Literature+Erasmus

1. Jane Austen

2. William Blake

3. William Wordsworth

4. Coleridge and Frankenstein

5. Joseph Conrad

6. E.A. Poe

7. Emily Dickinson

Terms and conditions:

- attending the classes with the texts assigned for the given class

- partcipating actively in the class

- writing a research paper of minimum 1000 words (3 pages, 1.5 line spacing, 12 pts Times New Roman, 2.5 cm margins) on the reception of an English-language author in your own country. Each students should choose a different subject. The paper should meet the academic criteria of annotation: each quotation or paraphrase from another source should be clearly marked. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in 0 credits for the course.

The questions you can ask yourself when writing the paper:

• When was the author translated in my country and by whom?

• Was the translation directly from the English or maybe from a French translation (many early translations were like that).

• Did people in my country read the author? Did they like him/her? Did they write about him/her in reviews, essays etc?

• Are there any authors in my country inspired by this author? What was the inspiration?