Course code

GRA6334.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Ingliskeelsete maade kirjandus I

Course title in English

Anglophone Literatures I

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Julia Kuznetski (language of instruction:English)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To get acquainted with the main periods in the history of literature and most important writers of the English-speaking countries (English, Irish, Scottish, American) from the 15th century to the end of the 19th century. To approach the oeuvre of selected writers/selected books in depth, according to the chosen focus (different every academic year).

Brief description of the course

The most important genres in Anglophone literature (drama, epic poetry, creation of the novel, travel literature, gothic literature, dramatic poem, Bildingsroman, philosophical novel, lyrical poetry); greatest writers (Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Burns, Behn, Byron, M. Shelley, Poe, Scott, Thoreau, Ch. Brontë, Whitman, Melville, Twain, James, Wilde); Renaissance, classicism; culture of the Enlightenment, romanticism; realism; decadence. The content of the course varies according to the thematic focus, which is topical at that moment. Lectures and seminars, group discussions, group work, analytical essays.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- the student orients in the history of literature of English-speaking countries as well as main literary methods with a stress on peculiarities of British, American, Irish and Scottish literature;
- has gained background knowledge to comprehend contemporary culture of English-speaking countries, through the prism of literature;
- is able to place the literary material into a wider historical, cultural and political context;
- is able to understand and analyse various poetics of literary texts in English, express their opinion, observations and conclusions in discussions and written analyses (essays);
- has developed teamwork skills, is able to work with academic sources (incl. summarising and referencing).

Teacher

Julia Kuznetski

Study programmes containing that course

Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/24.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/24.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/23-t.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/23-o.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/23.HT)
Liberal Arts in Humanities (KKLHB/22.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/22-t.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/22-o.HT)
European Modern Languages and Cultures (GRENB/00.HT)