FLE 241 English Literature II
FALL 2009-2010
Course Description
This course offers an overview of major English works from the end of the18th century up to the present time.
As in English Literature I, the cultural, philosophical, scientific, and ethical background of the texts is explored in detail with references to some of the most influential critical schools of thought.
Course Objectives
This course aims to help the students be able to..
· Increase an awareness towards literary texts, particularly written in verse and, through reading poetry, acquire literary appreciation
· Recognize some significant works by distinguished writers of different periods and relate them to 20th century context.
· Build up connections between the spirit of the time and the texts, taking into consideration the features and sensibilities of each period
· Acquire familiarity with literary concepts
· Develop a notion of literature that makes us understand what human being is.
Methodology
The course proceeds through reading, analysis and class discussions of the assigned texts.
Textbook:
A course pack containing the texts (prepared by Deniz Hoca) is available in the copy centre at the department (just adjacent to kanteen). Also accessible are many other books dealing wiith English Literature in METU Library
Suggestions:
Regular Attendance, Participation and Contribution
Evaluation:
Participation 20%
Presentation 20 %
Midterm Exam 25%
Final Paper 35%
Schedule
The Romantic Period: A brief introduction into the social and literary background of the period will be covered.
William Blake “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”, “Holy Thursday”, “Holy Thursday”, “London”
William Wordsworth “Expostulation and Reply”, “The Tables Turned”, “Tintern Abbey”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty”, “When We Two Parted”
Percy Bysshe Shelley “A Song: Men of England”, “Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
The Victorian Period: General characteristics of the age will be introduced.
Alfred Tennyson “In Memoriam”
Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XLIII “How Do I Love Thee?”
Matthew Arnod “Dover Beach”
The Twentieth Century: The social and literary background of the age will be covered.
Thomas Hardy “Hap”, “The Darkling Thrush”
Gerard Manley Hopkins “Thou art indeed just, Lord”
D.H. Lawrence “Snake”
Rupert Brooke “The Soldier”
Wilfred Owen “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, “Futility”
William Butler Yeats “Leda And The Swan”, “The Second Coming”, “Sailing to Byzantium”
T.S.Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
W.H. Auden “Musee des Beaux Arts”, “September 1, 1939”
Philip Larkin “At Grass”, “Ambulances”
Ted Hughes “Relic”
Seamus Heaney “Death of a Naturalist”
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