124643 VO BEd 04.3: History of Literatures in English (2016S)

Analysed texts will be available in form of excerpts on the Moodle platform. Additionally, students are expected to prepare for - and accompany - this survey by an intensive reading of major works dealt with (Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"; Henry Fielding, "Joseph Andrews"; Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"; George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs Warren's Profession"; Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"; Samuel Beckett, "Waiting for Godot"; Julian Barnes, "Flaubert's Parrot" - these books are also available at the Facultas campus bookstore) and an individual reading of selected chapters from a literary history of their choice - for example, Michael Alexander, "A History of English Literature" (Macmillan pb); Andrew Sanders, "The Short Oxford History of English Literature" (Oxford UP); Ulrich Seeber (ed.), "Englische Literaturgeschichte" (Metzler). Many of the texts discussed may be found in the Norton or the Arnold Anthology of British Literature.