Примерный перечень вопросов к зачету. 1. The Middle Ages. The heterogeneity of medieval culture

1. The Middle Ages. The heterogeneity of medieval culture.

2. Old English literature.

3. Beowulf. The genre of heroic epic. Time and space in the epic poem. The life of Germanic tribes as depicted in Beowulf.

4. Beowulf. Christian and pagan motives. The peculiarities of the language and versification

5. Middle English literature. The ideals of chivalry and courtly love. Breton lays. The genre of romance, its sources and aesthetic peculiarities.

6. The Arthurian Cycle. Sir Cawain And the Green Knight.

7. T. Malory. Morte d’Arthur.

8. English and Scottish folk ballads of the fifteenth century. The Robin Hood cycle.

9. The literature of the fourteenth century. John Wycliffe.

10. William Langland. The Vision of Piers Plowman.

11. J. Chaucer. Biography. Early works.

12. The Canterbury Tales as an encyclopedia of genres of medieval literature.. Chaucer’s language and verse.

13. The Renaissance. Humanism. The Reformation.

14. T. More and his Utopia. The evolution of the genre in English literature.

15. Medieval popular drama. Mystery, miracle and morality plays.

16. The Golden Age of English Drama. English drama before Shakespeare. Christopher Marlowe.

17. W. Shakespeare. The Shakespearean question. The main phases of Shakespeare’s creative work.

18. Histories and tragedies. Genre distinctions. Analyze a tragedy (other than Hamlet) of your choice.

19. W. Shakespeare’s comedies. Light and dark comedies. Analyze a comedy of your choice.

20. William Shakespeare. The Tragical History of Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark. The genre. The main conflict in the tragedy. Characters. Language and imagery.

21. Jacobean literature. Ben Jonson. Cavalier poets.

22. The literature of the early seventeenth century. Baroque.

23. Metaphysical poetry. John Donne. The traditions of religious and secular poetry.

24. J. Milton. Paradise Lost.

25. Restoration. John Dryden. Restoration comedy.

26. The Augustan Age. The peculiarities of English neoclassicism. Alexander Pope.

27. J. Swift. Pamphlets. Gulliver’s Travels.

28. D. Defoe. Diary and confession as literary genres. The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

29. The rise of the novel in the eighteenth century. The novel and the romance. Journalism.

30. S. Richardson, H. Fielding, T. Smollett.

31. English sentimentalism. Genre preferences. The Graveyard School.

32. L. Sterne. The development of the novel form.

33. The eighteenth century drama. The new forms (the pantomime, the ballad opera; the domestic drama). John Gay. George Lillo. Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan.

34. Pre-romantic tendencies in English literature. Interest in the past and in folklore. The Gothic novel.

35. The age of Romanticism. The peculiarities of English Romanticism. Romantic aesthetics.

36. The role of myths and mythology in the Romantic Poetry. William Blake.

37. The Lake School. Wordsworth and Coleridge. The Lyrical Ballads. The discovery of the world of childhood by English Romantics.

38. George Gordon Byron. The Romantic hero.

39. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Anti-tyrant motifs in poetry.

40. The Prose of the Romantic period. The historical novel by Sir Walter Scott.

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