Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-B1E
- Title
- Chapters from British Literature and Culture
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course uses examples from various stages of British cultural history (the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic period, Postmodernism) to offer insights into the relationship between literary, cultural and social phenomena. Exploring issues of literature in the context of intellectual history, it shows how for instance realism or fantasy are not issues confined to literature, or how such concepts as subjectivity or power or privacy are relevant for understanding literature and its history.
- Course content
- A selection of novels and short stories, and a selection of the relevant theoretical texts, as specified by the instructors.
- Assessment method
- Preliminary exam mark offered based on in-class activity (two tests). If the preliminary mark is rejected, the student can opt for an oral exam.
- Bibliography
- Compulsory: Short stories: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Novels and novellas: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Circle by Dave Eggers (excerpts); Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (excerpts); Films: Rear Window (dir.: Alfred Hitchcock); Disturbia (dir.: D. J. Caruso); Poems: Theoretical texts connected to the primary reading