Преподавател(и):

проф. Албена Бакрачева  д.н.

Описание на курса:

Компетенции:

Успешно завършилите курса студенти:

1) знаят:

* have a deeper insight into the inherent characteristics of the 1st person narrative in English and American literature;

* have developed flexible ways of critical thinking.

2) могат:

* flexible critical thinking on a comparative basis in the field of American and British Studies.

Предварителни изисквания:
Студентите да имат знания и/или умения:

• English language proficiency.

• Background in English and American literature and culture.

• Literary theory equipment.

Форми на провеждане:
Редовен

Учебни форми:
Лекция

Език, на който се води курса:
Английски

Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:

1 The 18th Century: Intellectual framework and general principles in England and America

2 The Novel: the “new genre of the new times” in 18th-century England

3 The 1st person narrative as the modus vivendi of the 18th-century English novel: fiction and nonfiction

4 The “personal narratives” in 18th-century America: fiction and nonfiction

5 The Romanticist 1st person narrative: similarities and divergencies in England and America

6 The Romanticist novel and the spiritual autobiography: English/American parallels

7 Late 19th-century transformations in the 1st person narrative in England and America

8 The Modernist 1st person narrative

9 The 1st person narrative and postmodernity

Литература по темите:

Студентите ще получат списък на основните автори и произведения.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York, 1962- (all editions)

The Longman History of English Literature. London (all editions)

The Penguin History of English Literature. London (all editions)

Robert Alter, Partial Magic. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1975

Wolfgang Iser, The Implied Reader. London, 1974

Arnold Kettle, An Introduction to the English Novel. London, 1974

Herbert Read, English Prose Style. London, 1952

E.M.W. Tillyard, The English Epic and Its Background, London, 1954

Dorothy Van Ghent, The English Novel. Form and Function. New York, 1955

Marco Mincoff, A History of English Literature. Part I - II, Sofia, 1976

The Norton Anthology of American Literature (2 vols.) – all editions

Matthiessen, F.O. American Renaissance. NY:Oxford Univ. Press, 1941.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. Boston, 1968.

Buell, Lawrence. Literary Transcendentalism. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca and London, 1973.

Ruland, Richard. Bradbury, Malcolm. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. A History of American Literature. Penguin Books, New York. 1992.

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