| イギリス文学史 |
| 授業コード | 受講区分 | 学科 | 授業期間 | 履修年次 | 単位 | 担当者 |
| 254101 | 国際英語学科 | 前期 | 1・2・3・4 | 2 | P.Houser |
| 授業の主題（テーマ） |
| Introduction to British Literature. |
| 授業の目標（講義概要） |
| This course is designed to provide an overview of British literature by historical era in general and representative works and authors in particular and can be expanded to a two-semester course. If appropriate, I sometimes make use of audio-visual material to support course content. |
| 授業計画 |
| Class #1: Introduction to British historical and literary periods from medieval to post-modern (explanation of the hand-out). Class #2: Beowulf and the medieval mindset. Class #3: Geoffery Chaucer. A continuation of the Middle Ages consciousness including concepts of courtesy as seen in the Prologue to the Canturbury Tales, Sir Gwain and the Green Knight. Class #4: Early Modern I. What is renaissance? A look at events which led to the Reformation. Class #5: Early Modern II: Hamlet as the pivotal point in the shift from communal to individual psychology and the cultural change in literature. The shift from Elizabethan culture to Jacobean culture. Class #6: John Milton. Review of political and cultural events which lead to the British Civil War. Paradise Lost. The King James Bible. Class #7: The Age of Reason. The literary and cultural importance of the Restoration, rationalism, and neoclassicism. Class #8: Romantics I: The First Wave: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge. Reaction to rationalism and the exploration of the spirit. Class #9: Romantics II: The Second Wave: Poetry of Byron, Keats, Shelley. Class #10: Victorian Age. Characteristics of the Gothic novel are introduced. Class #11: Modernism. Stream of consciousness. Class #12: High Modernism. James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound. Class #13: Post-Moderism. Cultural events since 1945 including the advent of electronic media and critical theory as an academic subject. Class #15: Final examination. |
| 評価方法 |
| Students are graded on two examinations: one to be given unannounced during the semester and another as a final examination during the fifteenth class meeting. |
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