THEORY:
1. Anglo-Saxon verse form & Beowulf
2. Middle English Literature (Chaucer)
3. Renaissance and Reformation (the coming of print, role of the printers, humanism, poetry...)
4. Sonnets (development, types, representatives)
5. Renaissance Drama (The Beginnings of English Drama, The Early Elizabethan Drama, representatives) - 19th century Drama (Shaw, Wilde, genres)
6. Romanticism (Lyrical Ballads, basic principles, representatives, Classicism vs. Romantism)
7. The Development of the Novel. The Age of Reason (Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne)
8. Aestheticism
9. Naturalism. Pessimism (Hardy, Lawrence)
10. Victorian novel (Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Dickens)
11. Modernism (social and philosophical background, basic literary attributes, V. Woolf)
DISCUSSION:
* books from the syllabus - focus on interpretation and critical thinkingDISCUSSION:* books from the syllabus - focus on interpretation and critical thinking
