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Fall 2015
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| ENG 204 - Survey of British Literature |
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Associated Term:
Fall 2015
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Recognize the development of the English language through reading texts written between 900-1680 CE. 2. Demonstrate an awareness of the chronology of British Literary History 900-1680. 3. Read aloud poetic selections of Beowulf, Chaucer, Elizabethan writers, and Milton to demonstrate an awareness of the change in the material qualities of the English language. 4. Demonstrate a rudimentary understanding of poetic conventions, i.e., alliteration, kennings, meter, blank verse, etc. 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of social, political and cultural contexts shaping and being shaped by literary productions. 6. Understand the epic structure of Milton's Paradise Lost and the political and religious controversies in which poets of the period engaged. 7. Recognize the emergence of the changes on the role of women in literary texts across the period covered. 8. Understand the developing consciousness of England as an imperial power and its influence on literary invention. 9. Distinguish between connotation and denotation and demonstrate how the connotative language helps shape major points of a literary text (poem, story, play) 10. Demonstrate ability to use interpretive frameworks to investigate contextual meanings of literature. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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