Literatura angielska III

a survey course in English literature and culture from the Victorian age to the present

a survey course in English literature and culture from the Victorian age to the present

Filologia angielska (FA)

English Literature, Year II, Reading List 2021/22

Novels and short stories

Winter semester:

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Thomas Hardy, “On the Western Circuit”

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (home reading)

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

D.H. Lawrence, “Odour of Chrysanthemums”

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Summer semester

George Orwell, 1984

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Doris Lessing, “One off the Short List”

Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves”

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

Hanif Kureishi, “My Son the Fanatic” (home reading)

Zadie Smith, White Teeth (selected chapters)

Ali Smith, “After Life”

Poetry

Winter semester:

Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, In Memoriam 54; home reading: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children” (home reading)

Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Blessed Damozel” (home reading)

Christina Rossetti, “After Death” (home reading)

Thomas Hardy, “Hap”

W.B. Yeats, “Easter 1916”, “Sailing to Byzantium” (one for home reading)

T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, The Waste Land Part One

Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier”

Wilfred Owen, “Dulce Et Decorum Est”

Summer semester

Dylan Thomas, "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London”

W.H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen”

Philip Larkin, “Toads”

Seamus Heaney, “The Tollund Man”

Carol Ann Duffy, “Education for Leisure”

Edwin Morgan, “The First Men on Mercury”

Drama

Winter semester:

G.B. Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession (home reading)

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

Summer semester

Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party

John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (home reading)

Background reading

Obligatory (1-3 covering the winter semester):

1. Robin Gilmour, “Introduction: The Novel and the Age,” in: The Novel in the Victorian Age: A Modern Introduction. London: Edward Arnold, 1986.

2. Erich Auerbach, “The Brown Stocking,” in: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. (or other editions)

3. Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction,” in: The Norton Anthology of English Literature (any edition)

4. David Lodge, “Two Kinds of Modern Fiction,” in: The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy and the Typology of Modern Literature. London: Edward Arnold, 1983.

optional:

• Bronisława Bałutowa, Powieść angielska XX wieku. Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2004.

• Malcolm Bradbury, The Modern British Novel 1878-2001. Rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2001.

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.2. Gen. ed. M.H. Abrams. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2000 (or later editions)

• Joseph Bristow (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Deidre David (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

• David James (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

• Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls (eds.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

• Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Randall Stevenson, A Reader’s Guide to the Twentieth Century Novel in Britain. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

websites:

http://www.victorianweb.org/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/

Some classes may take the form of written interaction via Pegaz discussion forum. Students will be informed about the dates of these classes beforehand.

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