Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG-227E.C1
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts: Reading the Victorian Mind
- Usual semester
- Both
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- Relying on a selection of Victorian texts the aim of the course is to deepen the students understanding of English culture, lirerature and language.
- Course content
- Victorian literature: prose as well as poetry.
- Assessment method
- Written ’exam’, in two parts: in the middle of the term and at the end. Evaluation: preparation for classes, contribution to discussions, results of the ’exam’.
- Bibliography
- Suggested readings (the final list depends on the interest of the students of the particular group): Tennyson: "Mariana", "Morte d'Arthur"; R. Browning: "Fra Lippo Lippi", E.B. Browning: "The Cry of the Children", Ch. Rossetti: "Goblin Market", D.G. Rossetti: "Hand and Soul", nonsense poetry, Morris: "The Defence of Guinevere", Dickens: Hard Times, G. Eliot: Mill on the Floss, Pater: "Conclusion" to The Renaissance, Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray.