L2 S3 Literature BESSEDIK 2023 2024

Course Information: 

Littérature de la langue d'étude

Level: S3

credit: 2

Coefficient: 1

TD hours per semester: 1h30 for 15 weeks

Wednesday (from 8:30 to 10 room 8 / from 11:30 to 13:00 amphy 2)

Instructor: 

Dr BESSEDIK Fatima Zahra

Maitre de Conférences A

fatima.bessedik@univ-oran2.dz

Course Description and objectives:

Welcome to this course of literature! 

This course is designed for second year students with prior knowledge on English Literature and basic command of the English. This course introduces the students to the English litearry text from the Neoclassical period till the Romantic Period. It allows students to understand how ideas in the seventeenth, eignteenth, and nineteenth centuries shaped the minds of intellectuals, including poets, writers, and painters. Throughout the course, students are expected to master the English literary movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism and their representative authors. The class is discussion based, with focus on student participation on the literary text comprehension. 

Evaluation mode: 40 per cent- 60 per cent

Course Schedule: 

1. Week 1: Introduction to British Literature since its beginning (a survey)
2. Week 2: The Neoclassical Period: A Historical Background
3. Week 3: The Neoclassical Period: Literary Study (Alexander Pope, and others)
4. Week 4: The Romantic Period: A Historical Background
5. Week 5: Romanticism: "Expostulation and Reply" by William Wordsworth
6. Week 6: Romanticism: "The World is Too much With Us" by William Wordsworth
7. Week 7: Romanticism: "It is a Beauteous Eveneing, Calm and Free" by William Wordsworth
8. Week 8: Romanticism: The Solitary Reaper, by William Wordsworth
9. Week 9: Romanticism: The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
10. Week 10: Neoclassicism and Romanticism in paintings: Analysis
11. Week 11: Evaluation
12. Week 12 Evaluation

Resources: 

Literary texts are supposed to be handed by the teacher. Other references to knowledge on the course are suggested as follows: 

Greenbaltt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol.2. 

Baldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Tarnas, Richard. The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View. Ballantine Books, 1993. 

Buxton, John. The Gracian Taste: Literature in the Age of Neoclassicism 1740-1820. McMillan Press, 1978.

Wellek, René. A History of Modern Criticism: The Later Eighteenth Century. Vol.1. Cambridhe University Press, 1955.

Guobin Xu, et al. Introduction to Western Culture. Palgrave McMillan, 2018.

David, Pirie, ed. The Romantic period. London, England: Penguin Books, 1994.

Watson, J. R. English poetry of the romantic period, 1789-1830. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1992.

Haywood Ian, and Leader Zachary, eds. Romantic period writings, 1798-1832: An anthology. London: Routledge, 1998.

Peck, John, and Martin Coyle. "The Romantic Period." In A Brief History of English Literature, 151–68. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-35267-5_9.

Heringman, Noah. "Natural History in the Romantic Period." In A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, 141–67. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444308563.ch7.

Higgins, David. "The Romantic Period." In Studying English Literature. Continuum, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350934146.ch-007.