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INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ICP251 INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE 3 3 3 4

Objectives and Contents

Objectives: This course aims to enable students to have general knowledge about English Literature and to discuss about literary works, writers and periods.
Content: What is literature and what is it for, early English literature, epic poetry and the stories of Beowulf, Chaucer and Canterbury, English literature and translation: English Bible, origins of theater and beginnings of English theatre, Everyman review, early Elizabethan drama, William Shakespeare The Hamlet review includes other playwrights of the Elizabethan era: Marlowe, Johnson, Webster, Milton and his era and Paradise Lost.