Dr Aleksander Bednarski
historia literatury angielskiej, studia niestacjonarne, rok I, konwersatorium 2012/2013
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- Anglo-Saxon social structure (king-warband-poet)
- Distinct, coexisting cultures in the British Isles
- Who lived in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons?
- The character of oral tradition
- Alliteration, caesura, kenning
- Main subject matter of Anglo-Saxon poetry
- Primary epic/secondary epic (+ examples)
- Where is the plot of Beowulf set?
- Elegy (+ examples) /Wyrd/Ubi sunt/gnomes
- What was the role of King Alfred in English culture?
- What’s scholasticism and Ockham’s razor?
- The Bayeux tapestry
- Types of medieval secular literature (fabliau, bestiaries)
- Social/economic changes in 14th century
- The structure of The Canterbury Tales
- Saint Thomas Becket and his death
- The origins of medieval theatre
- Everyman: the type of character and a play
- What does ‘Renaissance’ mean?
- The chivarlic romance. In what way is it different from epic?
- What are the main types of medieval poetry? (Allegory, exempla, debate poems)
- The dream vision convention (Pearl)
- Why are these dates important: 1066, 1516 ? What period do they delimit?
- the influences on Middle English literature
- Who were the Normans, where did they come from, to what language/culture did they belong, what changes did they bring to England?
- courtly love
- English soneteers
- Types of Shakespeare’s plays, examples
- Soliloquy vs aside
- Dramatic irony
- Comedy of humors
- The origin of the word ‘metaphysics’
- Metaphysical poetry – basic features, poets
- What was Restoration?
- What was Puritanism?
- Who wrote Paradise Lost?
- Who wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress?
- the basic function of periwigs
- Where does the term ‘Augustan Classicism’ come from?
- The most popular genres of Augustan Classicism and features of Neo-classicism
- Classicism vs Baroque
- What is a mock heroic poem? Features + example
- Who wrote Don Quixote?
- Basic features of the novel (narration, prose, fiction, plot, characters)
- 18th century English novelists – names and examples
- Who were the Yahoos?
- Why is Tristram Shandy an innovative novel
- Graveyard poets, Pre-romanticism, sentimentalism
- What is the gothic novel? What themes does it feature?
- Who was William Blake?