The latvian academy of culture

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points:

1. To read the sources listed in the list of literature, as well as attend all the seminars.

2. To pass an examination.

Literature:

1. 
   20.gs. ārzemju rakstnieki. I un II daļa.-R., 1978 – 1989
   
2. 
   American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature./ ed. Kunitz, Stanley. - N. Y., 1986.
   
3. 
   The concise Encyiclopaedia of Modern World Literature./ ed. by Geofrey Grigson. - London, 1963.
   
4. 
   Contemporary World Writers./ prof. Susan Vassnett; ed. Tracy Chevalier. - 2^nd ed. - Detroit etc., 1993.
   
5. 
   Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20^th Century: in 4 vol./ gen. ed. Wolfgang Bernard Fleischmann. - N. Y., 1976 - 1977.
   
6. 
   The International Authors and Writers Who’s Who. - 14^th ed./ cons. ed.: David Cummings, Tanjam jakobson. - Cambridge (England), 1995.
   
7. 
   20^th Century authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature: Complete in 1 vol. With 1850 biographies and 1700 portraits./ ed. by Stanley J. Kunitz. - N. Y., 1991.
   

The Name of the Course: World Literature of the 19^th Century

The Scope of the Course: 48 academic hours (32 hours of lectures, 16 hours of seminars)

3 credit points. The type of assessment – an oral examination.

The Author of the Course: Ass. Prof. Inese Karbanova, Dr. philol.

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: A successfully passed examination in the History of Literature of the 17^th and the 18^th Centuries. Knowledge of foreign languages.

The Contents of the Course: The course comprises the most significant phenomena of the 19^th century literature in Western Europe and America. The objective of the course is to form an insight into the development of literature, various development stages, trends, styles and genres, as well as writings and the most important works of separate authors.

The Thematic Planning:

X.Theme	XI.Week	Type of classes and hours
Literary trends of the 19^th century: Pre-Romanticism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Neo-Romanticism and Symbolism.	1	L2
The historical, philosophical and aesthetical preconditions for the establishment of Romanticism. The national peculiarities of Romantic literature.	2	L2
Romanticism in Germany, societies of romantics in Jena and Heidelberg. E.T.A. Hoffmann.	3	L2;S2
Romanticism in England. “The School of the Lake District” (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey). W. Scott. G.G. Byron.	4, 5	L2;L2;S2
Development stages of the Frech Romanticism. Romanticists of the Ist empire (F. R. Chateaubriand, G. de Staël, B. Constant). Restoration romanticists (A. Lamartine, A. de Vigny). Romanticists of the July Monarchy (G. Sand, A. de Musset). The life and works of V. Hugo.	6, 7	L2;L2;S2
Preconditions for the formation of American literature. Representatives of Romanticism (W. Irving, J.F. Cooper, E.A. Poe, H. Melville). W. Whitman.	8, 9	L2;L2;S2
The historical, philosophical and aesthetical preconditions for the establishment of Realism. Realism in France. Works of Stendhal, O. Balzac, P. Mérimée, G. Flaubert. The theory of naturalism of E. Zola. G. Maupassant. Peculiarities of writings of A. France and R. Roland.	10, 11, 12, 13	L2;L2;L2;L2; S2;S2
The development of Realism in England. Writings of Ch. Dickens and W. Thackeray. The development of English literature at the end of the 19^th century. T. Hardy, O. Wilde, R. Kipling, B. Shaw.	14, 15	L2;L2;S2
The development of literature of Nordic countries in the 19^th century. H. Ibsen.	16	L2;S2