English : History of literature and analysis of texts I

Teacher(s)

Bertrand Ingrid;

Language

English

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

At the end of the course, students should be able to - identify and describe the major literary movements of a specific period in the UK, Ireland and/or the US; - contextualise and discuss in depth literary texts and the major authors belonging to that specific period; - produce a structured, well-argued discourse that integrates the specific vocabulary and concepts used in literary studies; - analyse a literary text using the knowledge acquired through the course.

Content

This course combines an initiation to the critical reading and literary analysis of texts with a historical overview of literature.
The first part of this course introduces the basic terms and methods of literary analysis through the in-depth analysis of a selection of both “canonical” and more experimental poems. The second part of this course gives an overview of English literature from the earliest literary texts in Old English to the Renaissance.

This course includes 30 hours of workshops. These sessions are meant to help students become familiar with the texts and basic terms and methods thanks to activities in which the texts discussed in class are approached from a different angle. These workshops also include regular writing tasks.

Teaching methods

Lectures. Students are encouraged to actively prepare and take part in the discussions through weekly compulsory reading tasks.
The lectures make ample use of audio-visual material and technologies (extracts from film adaptations or performances, interactive quizzes with voting devices, etc.).

Evaluation methods

2-hour written exam (without access to the course material).

Other information

Course notes with a course plan, reading portfolio and glossary.
PowerPoint presentation available on Moodle after each lecture.

Online resources

See Moodle course.

Bibliography

Une bibliographie est intégrée dans le syllabus.

Faculty or entity

PHLB