Unit I. Novellas and Novels
Beowulf --epic poem in class (Old English)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (English)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (English)
Grendel by John Gardiner (American)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (English)
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell (English)
Candide by Voltaire (French)
Heart of Darkness by Conrad (Polish/English)
Secret Sharer by Conrad (Polish/English)
Metamorphosis by Kafka (Czech)
Unit II. Drama
Read and discuss in class --tragedies in the first semester,
comedies
Sophocles --tragedy Oedipus Rex – (Greek)
Aristophanes --satire Lysistrata -
(Greek)
Shakespeare --tragedies--Hamlet, Macbeth,
King Lear
comedies --Twelfth Night, As
You Like It
romance --The Tempest (English)
Sheridan, Richard -- comedy of manners --A School for
Scandal (English)
Wilde, Oscar-- comedy of manners --The Importance of
Being
Ernest (English)
Shaw, Bernard -- comedy of manners –Pygmalion
(English)
Unit III. Poetry
Read and discuss in class--Renaissance in first semester and balance in
second semester.
Renaissance Poets: Shakespeare, Spencer, Sidney,
Marlowe, Donne, Behn, Marvel ( English)
Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,
Shelley, Keats. (English)
Modern Poets: Eliot, Yeats, Heaney, Dove, Wilbur,
Stevens,
(American) |
