英国文学课课程大纲.doc

Part 1 English LiteratureChapterThe Anglo-Saxon period and The Anglo- Norman PeriodSection 1: BeowulfSection 2: Geoffrey ChaucerChapter The Renaissance Section 1: William Shakespeare Selected readings: Sonnet 18 / Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1) Section 2: Francis Bacon Selected readings: Of Studies / Of Marriage and Single LifeChapter The Period of Revolution and Restoration (17th Century) Section 1: John Donne Selected readings: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Section 2: John Milton Selected readings: Paradise Lost (Book 1) Chapter The Age of Enlightenment in England (18th Century) Section 1: Jonathan Swift Selected readings: Gullivers Travels/ A modest Proposal Section 2: William Blake Selected readings: The Tiger / The Chimney Sweeper Section 3: Robert Burns Selected readings: A Red, Red Rose / Auld Land Syne Chapter The Romanticism in England Section 1: William Wordsworth Selected readings: I wondered Lonely as a Cloud / Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3 1802 Section 2: George Gordon Byron Selected readings: She Walks in Beauty Section 3: Percy Bysshe Shelley Selected readings: Ode to the West WindSection 4: John Keats Selected readings: Ode on a Grecian Urn / To AutumnSection 5: Jane Austen Selected readings: Pride and Prejudice (chapter 1 and 2)Chapter The Victorian Age or English Critical Realism Section 1: Charles Dickens Selected readings: Oliver Twist (Chapter 2) Section 2: The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte) Selected readings: Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights (Chapter 15) Chapter The Twentieth Century English Literature Section 1: George Bernard Shaw Selected readings: Pygmalion Section 2: David Herbert Lawrence Selected readings: Sons and Lovers Section 3: James Joyce Selected readings: Araby Section 4: Kazuo Ishiguro Selected readings: The Remains of the Day Course Requirements1. Class attendance (no more than 3 times absence) (10%)2. Quiz (10%) 10 groups 10 multiple- choices Contents: historical and literary background, important authors and their representative works of each chapter3. Presentation (10%)Group division: 10 groups Contents: authors or works we will not discuss together during the classTime: 5-10 mins 4. Drama day (week 6) (5%): Shakespearean plays: 1 tragedy, 1 comedy 2 big groups Live show5. Recital (week 12) (5%)Group division: 10 groups Poems: British PoemsGroup discussion with the teacher before the performance (your choice and the reason, your understanding of the poem, how to present) Course ScheduleWeek 1: Introduction to the Course Week 2: ChapterThe Middle AgesWeek 3-5: Chapter The Renaissance Week 6: Drama dayWeek 7: Chapter The Period of Revolution and RestorationWeek 8: Chapter The Age of Enlightenment in England Week 9-11: Chapter The Romanticism in EnglandWeek 12: Recital (poetry reading day)Week 13