КОНСПЕКТ

ЗА КАНДИДАТ-ДОКТОРАНТСКИ КОНКУРС

2.1. ФИЛОЛОГИЯ

АНГЛИЙСКА ЛИТЕРАТУРА:ОТ РЕНЕСАНС КЪМ БАРОК

  1. The Renaissance: generalcharacteristics. Social transitions, philosophical trends, and artistic achievements.
  1. European and English Humanism. The Protestant Reformation.
  1. The Tudor age. Political, religious, and literary developments.
  1. Tudor poetry: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey.
  1. The Elizabethan age: political, social, and cultural perspectives.
  1. Elizabethan lyrical poetry. The sonnet sequence: from Sir Philip Sidney to William Shakespeare.
  1. The Elizabethan epic: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. Structure, themes, and major characters. Poetic form.
  1. The Elizabethan stage. Public theatres and the courtly stage.Theatrical conventions: actors, acting, audiences.
  1. The University wits.John Lyly and court comedy. Thomas Kyd and revenge tragedy.
  1. Elizabethan heroic tragedy: Christopher Marlowe and the early modern superhero. Marlowe's theatrical form.
  2. The Elizabethan Shakespeare: the early tragedies, the history plays, the romantic comedies.The Sonnets and the Ovidian poems.
  3. TheJacobean age: political and cultural developments. The Mannerist style.
  1. The Jacobean Shakespeare: the great tragedies, the Roman tragedies, theproblem plays, theromances.
  1. Jacobean drama: Ben Jonson. The humour comedies, the city comedies, the tragedies, the masques.
  1. Jacobean drama: genres and conventions. Thomas Middleton, John Webster.
  1. John Donne and the Metaphysical style: themes, imagery, and prosody.
  1. The Metaphysical style: George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, Richard Crashaw.
  1. The Caroline age and the Puritan Revolution. Political characteristics and cultural impact.
  1. The Baroquestyle in literature and the arts. Baroque drama in England: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, John Ford.
  1. The Baroque epic: John Milton.Paradise Lost. Contexts, interpretations, and poetic style.

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Head, Dominic / The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English / SVR 820.3
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Kermode , Frank / The Literature of Renaissance England / SV 820.9 HOL
Hattaway , Michael / A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture / SV 820.9003 HAT
CRITICAL LITERATURE ON SPECIFIC TOPICS
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Bindoff , S. T. , Stanley Thomas / Tudor England / SV 942.05 BIN
Hamilton, Donna B. (ed.) / A Concise Companion to English Renaissance Literature / SV 820.9003
Hattaway , Michael / Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature / SV 820.9003 HAT
Klein, Lisa M. / The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer / SVS 821.321 KLE
Lever, J. W. / The Elizabethan Love Sonnet / Professor Mincoff Memorial Library
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Съставила: проф.д.ф.н. Евгения Панчева