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Objectives and competences

To familiarize students with major British and American novels of the past two centuries To familiarize students with the major literary-critical schools of the 20th century To expose students to the varieties of interpretive constructs available in reading fiction, especially the novel To expand critical terminology To practice using the approaches and terminology in constructing critiques of British and American novels

Content (Syllabus outline)

• History and function of criticism • Tradition of the English and American Novel: The Great Tradition, Modernism, Anti-modernism, Postmodernism • Critical approaches to the novel (Formalism, Structuralism, Psychoanalytical criticism, New Criticism, Marxist criticism, Cultural Materialism, Reader Response approaches, Feminist Literary Criticism, Postcolonial critical approaches, New Historicism, Text Deconstruction) • Using critical approaches in writing about the novel.

Learning and teaching methods

• lectures, • seminars.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

On completion of this course student will be able to: Identify and understand various critical approaches Use critical articles to expand their own understanding of novels and other literature Construct criticism of novels using a given critical approach Compare and critique critical approaches

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

Ability to organize data and present in written and oral forms Ability to think critically and participate in critical debate

Readings

Bronner, S. E. 2017. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms, Ed. R. C. Murfin & S. M. Ray, Bedford, 2003. Hawthorn, Jeremy. Studying the Novel: An Introduction. London: Arnold, 1997. Selected British and American novels, for example: Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), Bedford, St. Martins, 2006. James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), Bedford St. Martins, 2004. Wharton, Edith, The House of Mirth (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Bedford St. Martins, 1994. Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Bedford St. Martins, 1996. Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Bedford St. Martins, 2000. Austen, Jane, Emma (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Bedford St. Martins, 2002. Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 2nd Norton Critical Edition, 1994. Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Bloom's Modern Critical Editions. 2007. Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms. Scribner Classics. 2014. Woolf, Virginia, Flush. Oxford World's Classics. 2009.

Prerequisits

Competence in English language.

  • red. prof. dr. VICTOR KENNEDY, prof. ang.

  • Written examination: 40
  • Oral presentation: 30
  • Project work: 30

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