Επισκόπηση Αγγλικής Λογοτεχνίας ΙΙ
Κίτση-Μυτάκου Αικατερίνη
This module surveys English literature and culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Its aim is to acquaint students with the issues and debates which have informed literary and cultural production in Britain in the last two centuries by examining closely selected literary, theoretical and cultural texts of Romanticism,
Victorianism, Modernism and Postmodernism. The study of these texts will be organized around specific sets of concerns (for example, revolution, nation, gender, race, nature, etc.). Through contextual and interactive readings students will be able to follow through transformations in literary representation as these take place in the context of changing historical, cultural, social and political circumstances.
This module surveys English literature and culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Its aim is to acquaint students with the issues and debates which have informed literary and cultural production in Britain in the last two centuries by examining closely selected literary, theoretical and cultural texts of Romanticism,
Victorianism, Modernism and Postmodernism. The study of these texts will be organized around specific sets of concerns (for example, revolution, nation, gender, race, nature, etc.). Through contextual and interactive readings students will be able to follow through transformations in literary representation as these take place in the context of changing historical, cultural, social and political circumstances.
This module surveys English literature and culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Its aim is to acquaint students with the issues and debates which have informed literary and cultural production in Britain in the last two centuries by examining closely selected literary, theoretical and cultural texts of Romanticism,
Victorianism, Modernism and Postmodernism. The study of these texts will be organized around specific sets of concerns (for example, revolution, nation, gender, race, nature, etc.). Through contextual and interactive readings students will be able to follow through transformations in literary representation as these take place in the context of changing historical, cultural, social and political circumstances.
Syllabus
Instructors
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou holds degrees in English Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA Honours, PhD) and Leeds University (MA in Theatre Studies). She is Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture in the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching and publishing on Realism, Modernism, and the English novel, as well as on feminist and body theory.
Course content associate: Christina Papacharitou
Course Syllabus
The Romantic Period, 1785-1832 (Norton Introduction, 3-30)
Week 1 → The Rise of Subjectivity – Revolution and the Romantics
Week 2 → Revolution in Form: Romantic Poetry and the Poet → Nature, the Ordinary and the Sublime
Week 3 → Beyond Reason → The Gothic (584-85) → Romantic Sensibility
The Victorian Age, 1830-1901 (Norton Introduction, 1017-1043)
Week 4 → Industrialism: Progress or Decline?
Week 5 → From Slave Trade to Imperialist Expansion
Week 6 → Late Victorians, Decadence, Aestheticism (1668-71)
The Twentieth Century and After (Norton Introduction, 1887-1913)
Week 7 → The Turn of the Century: From Realism to Modernism; Modern Fiction
Week 8 → Modernist Poetry
Weeks 9-10 → The Woman Question Revisited: Women, History & Writing
Week 11 → Postcolonial Englishness – Hybrid Identities & Cultures
Week 12 → Postmodernism
Week 13 → Students’ Presentations
Course Objectives/Goals
- Familiarization of students with Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern literature
- Familiarization with the social, cultural and historical contexts of the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries
- Ability to connect literary texts to the context in which they were produced
- Improvement of the students’ critical thought
Target Group
The students of the School of English Literature
Assessment Methods
- An essay-type exam at the end, OR
- (if numbers permit) 1) oral presentation on a selected topic, 2) a short written assignment, and 3) an essay-type exam at the end. The essay is assessed on the basis of organization, argumentation, quality of expression in English, and skills of analysis and synthesis. The final examination is assessed on the basis of factual knowledge and familiarity with the required readings, in addition to the above criteria. The criteria are made known to the students in the introductory modules of the first year and apply in all literature modules. Τhey are also posted on Moodle.
Prerequisites/Prior Knowledge
- WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: POETRY (log5-125)
- WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: DRAMA (log5-126)
- WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: FICTION (log5-127)
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, Ninth Edition
Bibliography
Romanticism
Alexander, J.H. Reading Wordsworth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987 (PR5881.A4) Bygrave, Stephen, ed. Romantic Writings. London: Routledge in association with the Open University Press, 1996 (PR457.R644)
Clemit, Pamela. The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s. Cambridge: CUP, 2011 (PR448.S64C36 )
Curran, Stuart, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1993 (PR457.C33)
Eaves, Morris, ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge: CUP, 2003 (PR4147.C36)
Everest, Kelvin. English Romantic Poetry: An Introduction to the Historical Context and the Literary Scene. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1990 (PR571.E94)
Gill, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge: CUP, 2003 (PR5888.C27)
Johnson, Claudia L. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft. Cambridge: CUP, 2002 (PR5841.W8Z64)
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution, 1790-1827. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 (PR129.F8K44)
Kitson, Peter, ed. Coleridge, Keats, Shelley. London: Macmillan, 1996 (PR590.C57) McCalman, Iain et al. eds. An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. [Reference guide]
Natarajan, Uttara. The Romantic Poets: A Guide to Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007 (PR590.R595)
Prickett, Stephen, ed. The Romantics. London: Methuen, 1981 (PR457.R465)
Ruston
Wu, Duncan. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 (PR457.R645)
Victorian Literature and Culture
Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 1980 (PN81.B395)
Brantlinger, Patrick. A Companion to the Victorian Novel. 2006 (ΜΝΕΣ Library: PR830.N356P37)
Brooks, Peter. Realist Vision. Yale UP, 2006 (PR878.R4B76)
Cook, Chris. The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914. Routledge, 2005 (ΜΝΕΣ Library: Main Collection DA30.C8 2005)
David, Deirdre. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge UP, 2001 (PR871.C17 2001) O’Gorman, Francis, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture. Cambridge: CUP, 2010 (DA533.C36)
Raby, Peter. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge UP, 1997 (PR5824.C36)
Richards, Bernard. English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890. London: Longman, 1988 (PR591.R5)
Wheeler, Michael. English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830-1890. Longman, 1985 (PR871.W49 1985)
Modernism
Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 -1930. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991. (see especially chapters 1, 2 and 6) (PN56.M54M6)
Bradshaw, David. A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Blackwell, 2006. (PR5777.W37)
Brooker, Peter, ed. Modernism/Postmodernism. London and New York: Longman, 1992. (PN771.M6175) Butler, Christopher. Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. (NX542.B88)
Hanscombe, Gillian E. and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for their Lives: Modernist Women 1910 -1940. Northeastern University Press, 1988, c1987. (PR478.M6H36 1988) Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. (PN56.M54C36)
Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. London: Macmillan, 1995. (PN56.M54N53)
Stevenson, Randall. Modernist Fiction. New York: Prentice Hall, 1997. (PR888.M63S74)
Tratner, Michael. Modernism and Mass Politics : Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats. Stanford UP, c1995. (PR478.P64T73)
Postwar English Literature
Arana, R. Victoria. Black British Writing. London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004. (PR 120.B55B58)
Bentley, Nick. British Fiction of the 1990s. London: Routledge, 2005. (PR881.B7235)
Boxall, Peter. Twenty-First Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2013 (PR 889.B69) Brannigan, John. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000. London: Palgrave, 2003. (PR471.B68)
Carter, Ronald and John McRae. The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland. New York: Routledge, 1997. (PR83.C28)
Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (PR881.C53)
Connor, Steven. The English Novel in History, 1950-1995. London: Routledge, 1996. (PR888.H5C66) Dodsworth, Martin, ed. The Twentieth Century. London: Penguin Books, 1994. (R471.T94)
Donnell, Alison. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. (Ref DA125.N4C63)
English, James F. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. (PR881.C658)
Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988. (PN3503.H83)
Lee, Alison. Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction. London: Routlege, 1990. (PR888.P69L4) McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1987. (PN3503.M24)
Procter, James. Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. (PR120.B55P76)
Sinfield, Alan, ed. Society and Literature, 1945-1970. London: Methuen, 1983. (PR471.S63) ------. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain. London: Continuum, 2004. (PR478.P64S5)
Stringer, Jenny, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1996. (RefPR471.O94)
Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Third Edition. New York: Harverster Wheatsheaf, 1993. (PN94.S45)
Stevenson, Randall. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Novel in Britain. Lexington: The U P of Kentucky, 1993. (PR881.S75)
Waugh, Patricia. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern. London: Routledge, 1989. (PR116.W38)
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou holds degrees in English Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA Honours, PhD) and Leeds University (MA in Theatre Studies). She is Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture in the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching and publishing on Realism, Modernism, and the English novel, as well as on feminist and body theory.
Course content associate: Christina Papacharitou
The Romantic Period, 1785-1832 (Norton Introduction, 3-30)
Week 1 → The Rise of Subjectivity – Revolution and the Romantics
Week 2 → Revolution in Form: Romantic Poetry and the Poet → Nature, the Ordinary and the Sublime
Week 3 → Beyond Reason → The Gothic (584-85) → Romantic Sensibility
The Victorian Age, 1830-1901 (Norton Introduction, 1017-1043)
Week 4 → Industrialism: Progress or Decline?
Week 5 → From Slave Trade to Imperialist Expansion
Week 6 → Late Victorians, Decadence, Aestheticism (1668-71)
The Twentieth Century and After (Norton Introduction, 1887-1913)
Week 7 → The Turn of the Century: From Realism to Modernism; Modern Fiction
Week 8 → Modernist Poetry
Weeks 9-10 → The Woman Question Revisited: Women, History & Writing
Week 11 → Postcolonial Englishness – Hybrid Identities & Cultures
Week 12 → Postmodernism
Week 13 → Students’ Presentations
- Familiarization of students with Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern literature
- Familiarization with the social, cultural and historical contexts of the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries
- Ability to connect literary texts to the context in which they were produced
- Improvement of the students’ critical thought
The students of the School of English Literature
- An essay-type exam at the end, OR
- (if numbers permit) 1) oral presentation on a selected topic, 2) a short written assignment, and 3) an essay-type exam at the end. The essay is assessed on the basis of organization, argumentation, quality of expression in English, and skills of analysis and synthesis. The final examination is assessed on the basis of factual knowledge and familiarity with the required readings, in addition to the above criteria. The criteria are made known to the students in the introductory modules of the first year and apply in all literature modules. Τhey are also posted on Moodle.
- WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: POETRY (log5-125)
- WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: DRAMA (log5-126)
- WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: FICTION (log5-127)
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, Ninth Edition
Romanticism
Alexander, J.H. Reading Wordsworth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987 (PR5881.A4) Bygrave, Stephen, ed. Romantic Writings. London: Routledge in association with the Open University Press, 1996 (PR457.R644)
Clemit, Pamela. The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s. Cambridge: CUP, 2011 (PR448.S64C36 )
Curran, Stuart, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1993 (PR457.C33)
Eaves, Morris, ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Cambridge: CUP, 2003 (PR4147.C36)
Everest, Kelvin. English Romantic Poetry: An Introduction to the Historical Context and the Literary Scene. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1990 (PR571.E94)
Gill, Stephen, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge: CUP, 2003 (PR5888.C27)
Johnson, Claudia L. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft. Cambridge: CUP, 2002 (PR5841.W8Z64)
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution, 1790-1827. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 (PR129.F8K44)
Kitson, Peter, ed. Coleridge, Keats, Shelley. London: Macmillan, 1996 (PR590.C57) McCalman, Iain et al. eds. An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. [Reference guide]
Natarajan, Uttara. The Romantic Poets: A Guide to Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007 (PR590.R595)
Prickett, Stephen, ed. The Romantics. London: Methuen, 1981 (PR457.R465)
Ruston
Wu, Duncan. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 (PR457.R645)
Victorian Literature and Culture
Belsey, Catherine. Critical Practice. London and New York: Routledge, 1980 (PN81.B395)
Brantlinger, Patrick. A Companion to the Victorian Novel. 2006 (ΜΝΕΣ Library: PR830.N356P37)
Brooks, Peter. Realist Vision. Yale UP, 2006 (PR878.R4B76)
Cook, Chris. The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914. Routledge, 2005 (ΜΝΕΣ Library: Main Collection DA30.C8 2005)
David, Deirdre. The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge UP, 2001 (PR871.C17 2001) O’Gorman, Francis, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture. Cambridge: CUP, 2010 (DA533.C36)
Raby, Peter. The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge UP, 1997 (PR5824.C36)
Richards, Bernard. English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890. London: Longman, 1988 (PR591.R5)
Wheeler, Michael. English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830-1890. Longman, 1985 (PR871.W49 1985)
Modernism
Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 -1930. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991. (see especially chapters 1, 2 and 6) (PN56.M54M6)
Bradshaw, David. A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Blackwell, 2006. (PR5777.W37)
Brooker, Peter, ed. Modernism/Postmodernism. London and New York: Longman, 1992. (PN771.M6175) Butler, Christopher. Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in Europe 1900-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. (NX542.B88)
Hanscombe, Gillian E. and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for their Lives: Modernist Women 1910 -1940. Northeastern University Press, 1988, c1987. (PR478.M6H36 1988) Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. (PN56.M54C36)
Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. London: Macmillan, 1995. (PN56.M54N53)
Stevenson, Randall. Modernist Fiction. New York: Prentice Hall, 1997. (PR888.M63S74)
Tratner, Michael. Modernism and Mass Politics : Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats. Stanford UP, c1995. (PR478.P64T73)
Postwar English Literature
Arana, R. Victoria. Black British Writing. London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004. (PR 120.B55B58)
Bentley, Nick. British Fiction of the 1990s. London: Routledge, 2005. (PR881.B7235)
Boxall, Peter. Twenty-First Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2013 (PR 889.B69) Brannigan, John. Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945-2000. London: Palgrave, 2003. (PR471.B68)
Carter, Ronald and John McRae. The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland. New York: Routledge, 1997. (PR83.C28)
Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (PR881.C53)
Connor, Steven. The English Novel in History, 1950-1995. London: Routledge, 1996. (PR888.H5C66) Dodsworth, Martin, ed. The Twentieth Century. London: Penguin Books, 1994. (R471.T94)
Donnell, Alison. Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. (Ref DA125.N4C63)
English, James F. A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. (PR881.C658)
Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988. (PN3503.H83)
Lee, Alison. Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction. London: Routlege, 1990. (PR888.P69L4) McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1987. (PN3503.M24)
Procter, James. Dwelling Places: Postwar Black British Writing. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003. (PR120.B55P76)
Sinfield, Alan, ed. Society and Literature, 1945-1970. London: Methuen, 1983. (PR471.S63) ------. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain. London: Continuum, 2004. (PR478.P64S5)
Stringer, Jenny, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford: Oxford U P, 1996. (RefPR471.O94)
Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. Third Edition. New York: Harverster Wheatsheaf, 1993. (PN94.S45)
Stevenson, Randall. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Novel in Britain. Lexington: The U P of Kentucky, 1993. (PR881.S75)
Waugh, Patricia. Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern. London: Routledge, 1989. (PR116.W38)
Week 1, The Rise of Subjectivity – Revolution and the Romantics
- Edmund Burke, From ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ (187-194)
- Thomas Pain, From ‘Rights of Man’ (199-203)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, From ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Men’ (194-199)
- James Gillray’s ‘Caricatures’
- William Blake, ‘London’ (132-33)
- Percy Shelley, ‘England in 1819’ (790)
Week 2, Revolution in Form: Romantic Poetry and the Poet
- William Wordsworth, From ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ (299-304)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, From ‘Biographia Literari’ (490-491)
- Percy Shelley, From ‘A Defence of Poetry’ (856-69)
Nature, the Ordinary and the Sublime
- William Wordsworth, ‘The Solitary Reaper’ (342), ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ (288-92)
Week 3, Beyond Reason
- John Keats, [Negative Capability] (967), [A Poet Has no Identity] (972-974), ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ (930)
The Gothic (584-85)
- Horace Walpole, From ‘The Castle of Otranto’ (586)
- Jane Austen, From ‘Northanger Abbey’, Chapter 5 [Supplement]
Romantic Sensibility
- Jane Austen, From ‘Sense and Sensibility’, Chapter 9 [Supplement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLz2rixwPpA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9x5TT3rDs)
Week 4, Industrialism: Progress or Decline?
- Thomas Carlyle, ‘Democracy’ (1067-72)
- Thomas Macauley, [Evidence of Progress] (1582-87)
- Charles Dickens, From ‘Oliver Twist’ (Chapter 2)
- Charles Kingsley, [A London Slum] (1597-99)
Week 5, From Slave Trade to Imperialist Expansion
- Olaudah Equiano, From ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano’ (98-105)
- Thomas Macauley, From ‘Minute on Indian Education’ (1640-42)
- Joseph Chamberlain, From ‘The True Conception of Empire’ (1662-65)
- J. A. Hobson, From ‘Imperialism: A Study' (1665-67)
- Joseph Conrad, From ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1953-1956, 1963-64)
Week 6, Late Victorians, Decadence, Aestheticism (1668-71)
- Oscar Wilde, ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (1733-77)
Week 7, The Turn of the Century: From Realism to Modernism; Modern Fiction
- Virginia Woolf, ‘Modern Fiction’ (2150-55),
- James Joyce, From Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2313-14)
- D. H. Lawrence, ‘The Odor of Chrysanthemums’ (2483-96)
Week 8, Modernist Poetry
- T. S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ (2554)
- William Butler Yeats, ‘Easter 1916’ (2093), ‘The Second Coming’ (2099), ‘Leda and the Swan’ (2102)
Week 9, The Woman Question Revisited: Women, History & Writing (1/2)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, From ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (217-39)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, ‘The Other Side of a Mirror’ (1849-50)
- Virginia Woolf, From ‘A Room of One’s Own’, (2264-72), ‘Professions for Women’ (2272-76)
Week 10, The Woman Question Revisited: Women, History & Writing (2/2)
- G. B. Shaw, ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’
- Week 11 Postcolonial Englishness – Hybrid Identities & Cultures
- George Orwell, ‘Shooting an Elephant’ (2605-10)
- Grace Nicols, ‘The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping’ (2751)
- Wole Soyinka, ‘Telephone Converstion’ (2736)
- Derek Walcot, ‘A Far Cry from Africa’ (2801-02)
Week 12, Postmodernism
- Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author’ [Supplement]
- Margaret Atwood, ‘Happy Endings’ [Supplement]
- From Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Introduction
Week 13, Students’ Presentations
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