The THEMES OF THE LECTURES: ЗМІСТ НАШИХ ЛЕКЦІЙ

НЕОБХІДНО МАТИ ЦЕЙ ДОКУМЕНТ НА ЛЕКЦІЯХ

Я БУДУ ПОСТІЙНО ЗВРТАТИ ВАШУ УВАГУ НА ЦЕЙ ДОКУМЕНТ

Lectures One-TWO. Periodization of English Literature. From the ORIGINS to the

Middle Ages. Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
a/ BEOWULF AS A HEROIC POEM AND THE EARLIEST EUROPEAN EPIC: WHAT IS AN EPIC? What’s going on in
the poem? Who is the protagonist? What does the word BEOWULF mean? Correlation betwee pagan and
Christian values. Who does Beowulf defeat? What is Alliteration? What is a KENNING? What language is
BEOWULF written in? Please, give three examples of KENNINGS

TERMINOLOGICAL GLOSSARY: Epic, Protagonist, Alliteration,Kenning

b/ English literature in the Middle Ages (the most important features).

c/ Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) as the the father of English poetry. What do you
know about his life and political and literary career?

d/ Geoffrey Chaucer’s THE CANTERBURY TALES (written after 1367):

Complete the following sentences:1 A group of pilgrims are journeying from

London to...... 2.They are telling tales because.....3.Their jobs are....4. They
represent...5 The host is....6 They have a competition because...7. The pilgrim’s tales
aof the poem is.....

e/ What is THE WIFE OF BATH’S story about? What kind of lady is the wife of Bath?

(Extrovert? Sociable? Independent? Sexually active/ Generous? Attractive?

Lascivious? (pay attention to her gapped teeth); Modest? A holy and devout
Christian?).

f/ How many tales are there in the poem?

g/ Why is THE CANTERBURY TALES a masterpiece? What makes it special? (A wide

cross section of the English society!)

TERMINOLOGICAL GLOSSARY: Iambic pentameter; rhythm; meter.

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LECTUREs THREE--FOUR. THE PERIOD OF RENAISSANCE: !485-1625

Epigraph: All the world is a stage,

And all men and women merely players.

(From AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare)

a/What is the meaning of the words RENAISSANCE and HUMANISM? What are the
characteristics of Renaissance?

b/ What is Reformation?

c/ What is a group called THE UNIVERSITY WITS? Who are the members of this
group?

d/ Christopher Marlowe’s (1564-1593) contribution to English drama. HE GAVE TO

ENGLISH DRAMA THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH SHAKESPEARE WAS TO BUILD. EACh
OF HIS PLAYS REVOLVES AROUND A PROTAGONIST WHO IS OBSESSED BY A RULING
PASSION: Tamburlane wishes to conquer the world; Edward is blinded by his
homosexual love; Doctor Faustus aspires to unlimited knowledge; the jew of Malta
is obssessed by the love for gold ( WHAT PLAYS ARE ALL THESE CHARACTERS
FROM?)

e/ What is a euphuism? (read the info about John Lyly, a University Wit.

f/ What is a picaresque novel? (read the info about Thomas Nashe, a University Wit)

g/ Thomas MORE (!478-1535) and his tragic fate. What do you know about his
greatest work UTOPIA (1516) with its attack on the evils of the English society?

Complete the sentences: 1. In his first book of UTOPIA thomas More denounces
what?....2. In the second book Thomas More describes what....

How can we associate Thomas More’s ideas with the ideas of the literature of the
20th and 21st centuries :George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Suzanne
Collins (“THE HUNGER GAMES?)?

TERMINOLOGICAL GLOSSARY: Utopia; picaresque; euphuism;

Renaissance;

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LECTURES FIVE--SIX. William Shakespeare (1564-1616): life-story, career,
contribution to the English and World literature

a/ The four periods of William Shakespeare’s career and the major plays of each
period;

b/ A variety of Shakespearian themes:

-----ambition and jealosy, deception and crime (MACBETH, OTHELLO);

-----greed, corruption, ingratitude (KING LEAR);

-----love and politics (ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA):

-----crime, guilt and punisment (MACBETH, RICHARD 111);

-----the impatience of youth (Romeo AND Juliet);

----the pains and pleasures of love (MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING)

C/ unforgettable characters: Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth,

Richard 111;

d/mastery of language and drama devices, memorable quotations and everyday

sayings: e.g.: All is well that ends well; Neither a borrower nor a lender (Hamlet);
Much ado about nothing; Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet)

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e/ SONNETS : how many are they? What is a Sonnet? What is the structure and
rhyme scheme of Shakespearian sonnets? Who is the addressee of the sonnets?
What is the evolution of the sonnet as a genre of poetry (Petrarchan sonnet; sir
Thomas Wyatt’s sonnet; Spenserian stanza)

f/ what is William Shakespeare’s contribution to the English literature?? What is

William Shakespeare’ way of looking at the world?

Terminological glossary: Sonnet; Spenserian stanza; rhyme scheme; Drama;

tragedy; comedy; soliloque; cues; hubris; hamartia; peripetia; catharsis; anagnorisis;
an aside

g/ What do you know about the Globe theatre and its structure? what is its motto?
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LECTUREs SEVEN--EIGHT. THE PURITAN, REFORMATION, AND AUGUSTAN AGE

(1625-1776)

a/ What is Puritan age? Who are puritans? What is Restoration? Restoration of

what? What is Augustan Age? Why Augustan?

b/ Who are Metaphysical poets? What is the meaning of the word METAPHYSICAL?

What is metaphysical poetry charaterized by? Paradox. Epigram. Pun. CONCEIT---

what is a conceit?

c/ John Donne as a founder of the metaphysical school of poetry and a great literary
innovator. What are the majr features of his poetry? (what is his poetic DICTION?
Why was his poetic imagery sriking, even shocking? Is his poetry full of puns,
epigrams, conceits and paradoxes?

TERMINOLOGICAL GLOSSARY: pun; paradox; conceit; epigram;

diction; poetic imagery; metaphysical (poetry)

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LECTURE NINE. John Milton (1608-1674) and his preeminent role in English
Literature.

a/ John Milton’s life story ;

b/ John Milton’s epic poem PARADISE LOST (1667)

----- meaning of the title;

-----the summary of the plot;

-----the cenral conflict;

-----the main chracters;

-----the themes;

-----the message;
 Complete the sentences: 1 “Paradise Lost” means that......; 2. The poem consisits of
how many books? 3.Satan is banished from....because....4. Satan attempts to take
revenge on WHOM? 5.THE poem is written in blank verse. This means that...6. The
theme of the poem is the FALL (whose FALL?)...7.the action takes place on Earth and
in... (where?); 8.Milton’s GRAND STYLE is created by the use of ....and by references
to Homer (who else?)...;9. The poem starts when the action is at a critical point:
what is happening? 10. In Books 5-7 the angel RAPHAEL tells us about what?11.
Milton wanted to write a poem in praise of God, but some critics claim that the true
hero of PARADISE LOST is, however, WHO? What do you think about this conflict
between...?

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LECTURE TEN. THE AUGUSTAN AGE Fiction (the early and the middle of the 18th
century)

a/ What are the characteristics of the Augustan literature: harmony, technical

perfection, order, clarity, stability, concision, elegance, emulation of classical
literature

b/ Henry Fielding (!707-1754) and his “HISTORY OF TO JONES, a FOUNDLING”:

general information”. Why is he considered as the father of the English comic novel?

c/ Laurence STERNE (1713-1768) and his LIFE AND OPINIONS of TRISTRAm SHANDY,
GENTLEMAN : experimentation with the composition and time in the novel. “stream
of consciousness” (what is this?); PLEASE, TAKE A LOOK at his novel!!!

d/ Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) and his PAMELA, OR VIRTUE REWARDED (1740):

an 18th c best seller in an epistolary form and read as a personal journal. Why is he
criticised for excessive sentimentality and moralism?

TERMINOLOGICAL GLOSSARY: EPISTOLARY style; emulation;

stream of consciousness; Augustan literature.

WHO IS A FALLIBLE (UNRELIABLE, UNTRUSTWORTHY) NARRATOR? ADDUCE

EXAMPLES FROM THE NOVELS WE HAVE STUDIED!
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WISH YOU STRONG HEALTH AND ENTHUSIASM and LOVE FOR

LITERATURE!!!

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