Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-312E.17
- Title
- Elective seminar in English literature - The poetry of Alexander Pope
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the poetical oeuvre of Alexander Pope. It introduces students to the idioms and genres of early eighteenth-century English poetry, to its historical contexts and to the characteristics of classicist poetics. The classes are devoted to the reading and discussion of some of Pope’s major poems (in some cases focusing only on selected extracts from them). Interpretations of passages discussed together are supplemented by sketching their contexts in literary- and political history.
- Course content
- Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism (extracts); Windsor-Forest (extracts); The Rape of the Lock; Eliosa to Abelard; An Essay on Man (extracts); Epistle to Augustus; Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; The Dunciad (extracts)
- Assessment method
- Attendance and active participation in class discussions (all texts must be read in advance), and a home essay of cc. 6 pages.
- Bibliography
- -- Paul Baines, The Complete Critical Guide to Alerxander Pope (Routledge, 2000) -- Pat Rogers, szerk., The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope (Cambridge, 2007) -- Felicity Rosslyn, Alexander Pope. A Literary Life (Palgrave, 1990) -- Susan Staves, „Pope’s Refinement” in: The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring1988), pp. 145-163 -- Brean Hammond, Pope Amongst the Satirists 1660-1750 (Northcote House, 2005), pp. 30-95.