British literature 2510-f1ENG2W-BL-T
Ćwiczenia (CW) Semestr zimowy 2021/22

Primary reading list:

1. Rudyard Kipling, “The Gardner,” “The White Man’s Burden,” Plain Tales from the Hills (two stories: “His Chance in Life” and “Lispeth”)

2. E.M. Forster, A Room with A View

3. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion ("Of the Beginning of Days", "Of Beren and Luthien")

4. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

5. George Orwell, 1984

6. Post-war poetry: W.H. Auden ("Funeral Blues", "Lullaby"), Dylan Thomas, ("Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", "A Refusal To Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London") and Philip Larkin ("Going, Going", "This Be the Verse")

7. William Golding, Lord of the Flies

8. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

9. John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

10. Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party

11. Contemporary poetry: Ted Hughes ("The Thought-Fox", "Hawk Roosting"), Stevie Smith ("Not Waving but Drowning", "To the Tune of the Coventry Carol"), and Tony Harrison ("Initial Illumination")

12. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

13. Irish and Scottish poetry: Edwin Morgan ("Glasgow Sonnet I", "In the Snackbar", "Trio") and Seamus Heaney ("Digging", "Death of a Naturalist", "Blackberry-Picking")

14. Contemporary short stories: Muriel Spark (“The House of the Famous Poet”), Jean Rhys (“The Lotus”), Roald Dahl (“Skin”)

Further reading:

Blamires, Harry. 2003. A Short History of English Literature. 2nd edition. London-New York: Routledge.

1. Bradbury, Malcolm, ed. 2011. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories. London: Penguin.

2. Carter, Ronald and John McRae. 1997. The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain and Ireland. London-New York: Routledge.

3. Cuddon, J.A. 1998. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory. London: Penguin.

4. Greenblatt, Stephen and M. H. Abrams. 2006. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th edition. New York-London: W.W Norton & Company.

5. Kermode, Frank and John Hollander, eds. 1973. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Modern British Literature. NY: Oxford University Press.

As above

Assessment methods:

- final test – W1, W2, W3, U4

- presentation – W1, U1, I2, I4, K1, K2

- participation in Teams and Moodle meetings and completion of Moodle assignments – W1, U1, U3, U4, K1, K2

Assessment criteria:

The final mark consists of

- final test – 50% of the final grade

- presentation – 20% of the final grade

- participation in Teams and Moodle meetings and completion of Moodle assignments – 30% of the final grade

fail – 0-59%

satisfactory – 60-69%

satisfactory plus – 70-75%

good – 76-85%

good plus – 86-90%

very good – 91-100%

Content distribution:

1. Introduction; Rudyard Kipling, “The Gardner,” “The White Man’s Burden,” Plain Tales from the Hills (two stories: “His Chance in Life” and “Lispeth”)

2. E.M. Forster, A Room with A View

3. J.R.R. Tolkien, selected stories for The Silmarillion

4. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

5. George Orwell, 1984

6. Post-war poetry: selected poems by W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Philip Larkin

7. William Golding, Lord of the Flies

8. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

9. John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

10. Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party

11. Contemporary poetry: selected poems by Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, and Tony Harrison

12. Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

13. Irish and Scottish poetry: selected poems by Edwin Morgan and Seamus Heaney

14. Contemporary short stories: Muriel Spark (“The House of the Famous Poet”), Jean Rhys (“The Lotus”), Roald Dahl (“Skin”)

Course materials will be displayed on Moodle.

Teaching methods may include traditional classroom, asynchronous and synchronous methods. In the case of remote learning, USOS mail, Moodle and MS Teams will be used to communicate with students.