Види навчальної діяльності студентів. Major literary genres: prose, poetry, drama

Лекції (8 год.)

Lecture 1 (2 год.)

Major literary genres: prose, poetry, drama.

Literature and other humanities.

The motives for writing.

Main characteristics of English literature.

Periods of English literature.

The Ukrainian scholars researching contemporary English literature.

World War II and its influence on English literature.

The disintegration of the British Empire.

1950-1965 – the end of the modernist epoch: the last attempt to learn the world. The main characteristics of modernism.

The problem of the canon and the mainstream.

The canon of the Soviet criticism. The post-war realistic novelists (John Boynton Priestley, Archibald Joseph Cronin, James Aldridge, Jack Lindsay, Charles Percy Snow, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene).

Lecture 2 (2 год.)

The canon of the Angry Young Men writers (John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine). The rising of the middle class and the reflecting of its problems in literature.

Look Back in Anger by J. Osborne as an iconic play about the problems of the second lost generation.

The canon of the English post-war intellectual novelists (Iris Murdoch, William Golding, John Fowles).

The philosophical works by Iris Murdoch: the way from existentialism to Platonism. The Bell.

The parabolical novels by William Golding. The Lord of the Flies as a parable about the historical ways of the mankind.

The canon of the dystopian genre. G. Orwell’s 1984. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess as a cult exploration of the nature of evil.

The canon of post-warscience fiction. John Wyndham’s and Arthur Clarke’s novels.

The canon of the modern fantasy literature. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien as the father of modern fantasy literature. The Christian fantasy by Clive Staples Lewis.

Lecture 3 (2 год.)

The canon of the post-war British detective genre (Agatha Christie, James Hadley Chase, Ian Fleming, John Le Carré).

1965 – till the present – the postmodernist epoch. The main characteristics of postmodernism. Structuralism, post-structuralism.

John Fowles as a forefather of postmodernist canon (The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman).

Postmodernist elements in Anthony Powell’s epic A Dance to the Music of Time and Malcolm Bradbury’s works.

Lecture 4 (2 год.)

The New Wave of science fiction (Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, James Graham Ballard). John Brunner as a forefather of cyberpunk.

The diversity of the contemporary mainstream canon in Great Britain (Catherine Cookson, Muriel Spark, Margaret Drabble, Peter Ackroyd, Maeve Binchy, Jeffrey Archer, Anita Brookner).

The canon of contemporary British fantasy: bestselling works by Joanne Rowling and Terry Pratchett.

Семінари (10 год.)

Seminar 1 (2 год.)

Modern British Poetry (John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney).

Seminars 2-3 (2+2 год.)

British dystopian genre:

George Orwell’s 1984 and Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange.

Seminars 4-5 (4 год.)

Contemporary British drama.

Самостійна робота студентів (16 год.)

Години самостійної роботи виділяються на підготовку до семінарів, що полягає насамперед у вивченні в оригіналі таких творів або уривків:

1. Betjeman John. Winter Seascape.
2. Larkin Philip. Church Going.
3. Hughes Ted. Love song.
4. Plath Sylvia. Mad Girl’s Love Song.
5. Heaney Seamus. Storm on the Island.
6. Orwell George. 1984 (chapter 1).
7. Burgess Anthony. A Clockwork Orange (chapter 21).
8. Stoppard Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Форма контролю– письмовий тест множинного вибору – 5 балів

Індивідуальна робота студентів (16 год.)

Студенти мають підготувати розгорнуту доповідь щодо будь-якого із запропонованих нижче творів. Відмінне виконання завдання – 5 балів.

Додаткові тексти

Additional texts

1. Greene Graham. The Quite American.
2. Snow Charles Percy. Strangers and Brothers.
3. Osborne John. Look Back in Anger.
4. Murdoch Iris. The Bell.
5. Golding William. The Lord of the Flies.
6. Wyndham John. The Day of the Triffids. The Chrysalides.
7. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel. The Lord of the Rings.
8. Christie Agatha (any post-war novel).
9. Fowles John. The Collector. The Magus. The French Lieutenant's Woman.
10. Rowling Joanne. Harry Potter books.

Модульний контроль

Форма– письмовий тест множинного вибору – 5 балів