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Course Syllabus

Bachelor 2024/2025

English literature

Type: Elective course (Philology)
Area of studies: Philology
Delivered by: Department of Philology
Where: School of Arts and Humanities
When: 3 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Ivan A. Avramenko
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Abstract

The era of Romanticism and the period that followed, Victorian age, are the powerful milestones on the route to social, religious, ideological change in Britain, which led to the destruction of long-held dogmas and formed a worldview that is still influencing modern thought and behaviour. The English literature course examines how the nineteenth-century British writers and poets dealt with this great shift in consciousness and addressed a broad range of political, social and aesthetic matters of that turbulent era.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Analyse the main features of literature of the examined period
  • Show the relationship between the socio-historical context of the era and the development of literary trends
  • Discuss the impact of the Romantic Revolution on the making of modern mind
  • Explore how Victorian literature shaped national identity and depicted the image of typical representatives of the British nation
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Ascertains the historical environments that formed English literature of the 19th century
  • Evaluates a number of Romantic and Victorian literary pieces in the context of their cultural milieu
  • Identifies the stylistic devices and main ideas of Romantic and Victorian literary works
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Opening the literary XIX century in Britain
  • Literary texts of the Romantic Period
  • Victorian Literature Part I
  • Victorian Literature Part II
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking In-Class Participation
    Students are expected to attend all lectures and seminars and contribute to discussions. They need to be prepared for class by having read the assigned text(s). They contribute to seminar discussions by answering and asking questions relevant to the corresponding class section.
  • non-blocking Presentation
    In the first week of the course, students sign up for presentations, which are based on their independent study of a literary work or a theoretical problem in the historical and cultural contexts.
  • non-blocking Test
    In one or several lectures or seminars, students are given a test of 10 questions based on lectures by the course instructor and the seminars. The form of questions may vary within the same test and from test to test: open-ended, multiple-choice, matching, etc. The test is conducted at no advance notice. The exact number of tests and the questions they contain are kept secret. There can be no more than 10 tests conducted during the course. The test(s) cannot be retaken; if a student has missed a test, the result is marked 0 (zero). The mark for this course requirement is the mean of the marks for all the tests offered throughout the course duration.
  • non-blocking Exam
    The Oral exam is conducted in English. Each student receives two questions, where the first question corresponds to the theoretical material of the two modules (lectures) and the second question is based on the texts discussed at seminars. The questions are selected by the examiner. The student cannot ask for a different set of questions in exchange for a lower mark. The student may be required to answer additional questions on any theme studied throughout the course so that examiners could gain full insight into understanding of the material.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 2nd module
    0.3 * Exam + 0.2 * In-Class Participation + 0.2 * In-Class Participation + 0.2 * Presentation + 0.1 * Test
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Lee, M. A., Rochette-Crawley, S., Kurtzleben, J., Fallon, E., & Feddersen, R. C. (2013). A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English. New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=658441

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • March-Russell, P. (2009). The Short Story : An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=272076

Authors

  • AVRAMENKO IVAN ALEKSANDROVICH
  • KESSEL KSENIIA VITALEVNA