授業の目的 【日本語】
Goals of the Course(JPN) | | | This course aims ｔo give students a basic grounding in British Literature and its cultural and historical context from Old English literature up to the late seventeenth century, to acquire the metalanguage necessary to communicate on literary topics and to assist help students to improve their communication skills through discussion of the course material. |
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授業の目的 【英語】
Goals of the Course | | | This course aims ｔo give students a basic grounding in British Literature and its cultural and historical context from Old English literature up to the late seventeenth century, to acquire the metalanguage necessary to communicate on literary topics and to assist help students to improve their communication skills through discussion of the course material. |
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到達目標 【日本語】
Objectives of the Course(JPN) | | | 本授業では、受講者が授業終了後に、イギリス文学の歴史的背景を理解し、時代的特徴を把握できることを目標とする。 |
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授業の内容や構成
Course Content / Plan | | The course will provide an overview of English Literature from the seventh century
to the late seventeenth century.
The Schedule of Your Class
1: Introduction to course aims and objectives. Prehistoric, Roman and Celtic Britain.
2: Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period. The Exeter Book elegies.
3: ‘Beowulf’, overview and extracts.
5: Geoffrey Chaucer; overview and extracts from The Canterbury Tales: the General Prologue and ‘The Miller’s Tale’.
6: Overview of Arthurian romance: extracts from ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’.
7: Overview of the fifteenth century; extracts from Malory’s ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’
8: Introduction to sixteenth-century history and literature. The court of Henry VIII: Wyatt, Surrey and Anne Askew.
9: Edmund Spenser; extracts from Book I of ‘The Faerie Queene’.
10: Sixteenth-century love poetry: Shakespeare, extracts from the sonnets, Spenser,
from ‘Amoretti’, Sir Philip Sidney, from ‘Astrophill and Stella’, Sir Walter Raleigh,
‘Ocean’s love to Cynthia’; Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Elizabeth I as a love poet and political Petrarchanism.
11: William Shakespeare: overview and ‘King Lear’ Act I
12: Introduction to seventeenth-century history and literature; the schools of Donne, Jonson, and Michael Drayton. Metaphysical, cavalier and carpe diem poetry Donne’s, ‘The Flea’, ‘The Good Morrow’, ‘The Ecstasie’, ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’
13: Later metaphysical poetry: Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan,
Thomas Traherne and Katherine Philips.
14: John Milton: overview, ‘Lycidas’ and the opening of ‘Paradise Lost’.
15: Dryden and Restoration Literature: extract from Dryden’s ‘Annus Mirabilis’; the Restoration stage.
Regular Test |
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履修条件・関連する科目
Course Prerequisites and Related Courses | | | The ｃourse will be taught in English. It is recommended for students to read the set texts before the class. |
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成績評価の方法と基準
Course Evaluation Method and Criteria | | The course will be evaluated by a presentation (20%) and a final project (80%).
To pass, students must earn 60 points in total. |
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教科書・テキスト
Textbook | | | The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th edition. W. W. Norton & Co Inc. Volume I. There is an edition available in which Vol. 1 is divided into three volumes, A, B and C. |
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参考書
Reference Book | | | Also consult the Norton anthology e-learning. |
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課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示）
Study Load(Self-directed Learning Outside Course Hours) | | | It is recommended for students to read the set texts before the class and make a note of any points that they need to be clarified. |
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履修取り下げ制度（利用の有無）学部のみ
Course withdrawal | | | 利用する： 『履修取り下げ届』を期日までに提出した場合は原則「Ｗもしくは欠席」となりますが、同届を提出しない場合は成績評価が行われ、合格基準に達しない場合は「Ｆ」となります。 |
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備考
Others | | |
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授業開講形態等
Lecture format, etc. | | | Mostly online (Zoom and/or on-demand) as some international students abroad might join the class. |
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