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- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BMI-ANGD17-CI6aE.06
- Cím
- Romantikus és viktoriánus irodalom - alapvetések és perspektívák: Lírai balladák
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- The aim of the course is a) to clarify to students why the Lyrical Ballads can (or cannot) be regarded to be a turning point in the history of English poetry, b) to give students a sense of the nature of the cooperation of the volume’s two authors, and of the evolution and structure of the volume’s 1798 and 1800 editions, and c) to enable students to use what they learn about the book in their understanding of the concept of romantic poetry.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The course contains some lectures which detail the genesis and the reception history of the Lyrical Ballads, or discuss the biographical, historical and literary historical contexts of some of the poems; the majority of the classes, however, are devoted to the open discussion of poems that students have to read in advance. For each class, 3-4 poems are assigned, with which students have to be familiar even if only 1-2 of them are discussed in the given seminar.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Regular attendance and familiarity with the assigned texts is part of the assessment. Students will have to give an oral presentation of a chosen critical text, and will have to submit a home essay of cc. 8 pages by the end of the term, on a subject agreed upon by the instructor and containing textual analysis as well as a display of familiarity with critical literature.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Primary texts: “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”; “Lines left Upon a Seat in a Yew Tree …”; “The Old Cumberland Beggar, a Description”; “Old Man Travelling [1798]”; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch [1800]”; “The Female Vagrant”; “The Convict”; “The Foster-Mother's Tale”; “The Nightingale”; “Lines written at a small distance from my house”; “Lines written in early spring”; “Expostulation and Reply”; “The Tables Turned”; “Anecdote for Fathers”; “We are Seven”; ”The Thorn”; “Goody Blake and Harry Gill”; ”Simon Lee”; “The Idiot Boy”; ”The last of the Flock”; “The Mad Mother”; “The Complaint of a forsaken Indian Woman”; “Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey...”; ”Nutting”; “There was a Boy, Lucy Poems; “Ruth”; “Hart-leap Well”; “The Brothers”; “Michael”; “Preface” to the 1800 edition. Secondary literature (familiarity with three items from the list below should be displayed in the home essays): - Sarah Zimmerman, Romanticism, Lyricism, and History (Albany, N. Y., 1999) - Marjorie Levinson, Wordsworth’s Great Period Poems (Cambridge, 1986) - M. H. Abrams, „Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric” in: Abrams, The Correspondent Breeze. Essays in English Romanticism (New York, 1984): 76-108 - Geoffrey Hartman, Wordsworth’s Poetry1787-1814 (Yale, 1964) - D. H. Bialostosky, Making Tales. The Poetics of Wordsworth’s Narrative Experiments. (Chicago, 1984) - David Bromwich, Disowned by Memory. Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s (Chicago, 1998) - A. Jones, W. Tydeman, eds., Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads. A Selection of Critical Essays (London, 1972) - Mary Jacobus, Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (Oxford, 1976) - Heather Glen, Vision and Disenchantment: Blake’s Songs and Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (Cambridge, 1983) - Péter Ágnes: Roppant szivárvány (Tankönyvkiadó, 1996), Bevezetés, 1. fejezet - Stephen M. Parrish, The Art of the Lyrical Ballads (Harvard, 1973) - John E. Jordan, Why the Lyrical Ballads? (Berkeley, 1976) - N. Trott, S. Parry, eds., 1800: The New Lyrical Ballads (Palgrave, 2001)