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UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC

Faculty of Philology and Arts, Kragujevac

SYLLABUS
Programme 56: English Language and Literature
Course Name and Code Introduction to Anglo-Americal Literature
Course Structure
(lectures, seminars)
2+1
Year of Study I
Semester 1
ECTS Credits
and Course Status 5, mandatory
(mandatory or elective)
Instructor(s) Nikola Bubanja, PhD and Tijana Matović
Course Requirements n/a
The course aims to introduce the students to literary studies and
familiarize them with canonical texts of (primarily, but not exclusively)
English criticism and literary theory. The course will specifically aim at
Course Aims
providing the students with a map of historical literary development, as
well as with basic terminology and methodology required for critical
reading and writing.
What is literature and why do we study literature (ontologically and
functionally)? Literary scholarship, theory, history and criticism.
Problems of editing, authorship, canon and authoritative, “original text”
text? Organizing the study of literature: general, comparative, national
literature. Specific issues of studying “English” literature: Anglophone,
Anglistics, British, American, Scottish, Irish, Canadian, Australian,
Indian? Basic terminology of (rhetorical) literary analysis: (plot,
Course Overview
characters, perspective, tone, setting, symbol and allegory, stile and
figures of speech). Why theory? Why history of theory? Literary theory
in relation to reality, reader and author: mimesis, enthusiasmos and
techne, instructiveness and delectation (Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Sidney,
Pope). New Criticism and T. S. Eliot. Russian formalism. Structuralism.
Marxism. Feminism. Post-structuralism. New Historicism. Cultural
Materialism. Post-Colonialism. Neopragmatism. The end (of theory)?
attendance 10% (5+5),
Grading System engagement in class activities 8% (2+6),
(including segment
percentage)
midterm (test + essay) 36% (12+24),
final exam (test + essay + essay) 46% (12+17+17).
Recommended textbooks:

1. Bertens, Hans, Literary Theory – The Basics, New York: Francis


& Taylor, 2008.
Textbooks and
2. Eagleton, Terry, Literary theory: an introduction, Oxford,
Mandatory Reading
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1996.
3. Velek, Rene, & Voren, Ostin, Teorija književnosti, prev.
Aleksandar Spasić i Slobodan Đorđević, Beograd: Utopija, 2004.
4. Škreb, Zdenko & Stamać, Ante, Uvod u književnost: teorija,
metodologija, Zagreb: Globus, 1998.
5. Милосављевић, Петар: Методологија проучавања
књижевности, Требник, Београд, 2000.

Recommended reading:

6. Course reader
7. Leitch, Vincent B. (general editor), The Norton anthology of
theory and criticism, New York: Norton, 2001.

Additional / reference books:

1. Barnet, Sylvan, et al., A Dictionary of Literary Terms, Constable,


London, 1969.
2. Поповић, Тања, Речник књижевних термина, Логос Арт,
Београд, 2007.
3. Живковић, Драгиша et al, прир., Речник књижевних термина,
Романов, Бања Лука, 1991.

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