Επισκόπηση Αγγλικής Λογοτεχνίας ΙΙ

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.

Objectives

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

Prerequisites

WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: POETRY (log5-125) WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: DRAMA (log5-126) WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: FICTION (log5-127)

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