The Song of Beowulf

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   The epic Anglo-Saxon poem “The Song of Beowulf”
   
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   The main tendencies of development of the modern English literature
   
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   The preparation for the Renaissance. William Langland – a priest/poet.
   
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   Geoffrey Chaucer – his life and three periods of his creative work. “Canterbury Tales”.
   
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   The folk ballads. Robin Hood Balads
   
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   W. Shakespeare’s importance for the development of the English language, literature and theatre.
   
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   Shakespeare’s historical dramas
   
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   Comedies of Shakespeare
   
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   Sonnets of Shakespeare
   
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    Christopher Marlowe and Carp Diem Poetry
    
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    The history of Renaissance and its philosophy. Sir Tomas More, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Philip Sidney
    
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    The Enlightenment – its ideals and objectives.Daniel Defoe – his life and work. “Robinson Crusoe”.
    
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    Jonathan Swift – his life and work. “Gulliver’s travels”
    
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    Henry Fielding – his life and work. His best novels.
    
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    Richard Sheridan – his life and work. “School for Scandal”.
    
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    Robert Burns – his life and work. His best poems
    
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    Sentimentalists. Samuel Johnson
    
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    The peculiarities of English Romanticism: two trends – progressive and regressive. The poets of the “Lake School” – W. Wordsworth, S. Coleridge, R. Southey.
    
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    George Byron – his life and work.
    
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    Percy Shelley – his life and work.
    
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    Walter Scott, a founder of a historical novel – his life and work. His best novels.
    
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    Translations of Byron’s Burns poetry into Uzbek and Russian.
    
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    The basic problems raised by English realists of the 19^th century in their works.
    
24. 
    Charles Dickens – his life and work. His best novels.
    
25. 
    Problems of childhood and education in Charles Dickens’ novels.
    
26. 
    William Thackeray – his life and work. Snobbism according to Thackeray. “Vanity Fair”.
    
27. 
    Alfred Lord Tennison– his life and work
    
28. 
    Robert Louis Stevenson– his life and work
    
29. 
    Robert Browning and Elisabeth Browning –their life and work.
    
30. 
    Charlotte Bronte and her novel “Jane Eyre”.
    
31. 
    Elizabeth Gaskell – her life and work. “Mary Barton”.
    
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    George Eliot – her life and work. Her best novels
    
33. 
    Thomas Hardy – his life and work. “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”.
    
34. 
    Oscar Wilde – his life and work. His best plays and tales. “The Picture of Dorian Grey”.
    
35. 
    Herbert Wells – his life and work. His best scientific fantastic novels.
    
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    John Galsworthy – his life and work. “Forsyte Saga” and “Modern Comedy”.“Forsytism” as a phenomenon of the English society.
    
37. 
    Development of detective genre. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    
38. 
    George Bernard Shaw – his life and work. Three groups of Shaw’s plays. Plays, reflecting historical events. The most popular play “Pygmalion”.
    
39. 
    Literature of the “Lost Generation”. Richard Aldington – his life and work. “Death of a Hero”.
    
40. 
    Modernist poetry and prose.
    
41. 
    James Joyce. “A Portrait of an artist as a young man” as education novel.
    
42. 
    Virginia Woolf. Peculiarities of creative work.
    
43. 
    Katherine Mansfield - her life and work. Short stories.
    
44. 
    W.S. Maugham - his life and work. Analysis of his best novels.
    
45. 
    Development of detective genre. Agatha Christie - her life and work.
    
46. 
    A.J. Cronin - his life and work. Peculiarities of writing style in his novel “Hatter’s castle”.
    
47. 
    Dylan Thomas. Peculiarities of creative work.
    
48. 
    English Literature of the 20th Century. Graham Greene – his life and work. His best novels.
    
49. 
    Charles Percy Snow – his life and work. “Strangers and Brothers” cycle of novels.
    
50. 
    Norman Lewis – his life and work.
    
51. 
    James Aldridge – his life and work.
    
52. 
    Sid Chaplin – his life and work.
    
53. 
    Iris Murdock – her life and work.
    
54. 
    English Literature of the 20th Century (2nd half). Sir Kinsley Amis. John Wain. Margaret Drabble. Susan Hill
    
55. 
    American Enlightenment. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.
    
56. 
    American poetry of revolution era
    
57. 
    Michael Wigglesworth - his life and work
    
58. 
    Group of poets the Connecticut Wits (or Hartford Wits): David Humphreys, John Trumbull, Philip Freneau and Joel Barlow
    
59. 
    Early Black Poetry: Phyllis Wheatley
    
60. 
    The first American fiction “The Power of Sympathy” (1789), by Charles Brockden Brown
    
61. 
    The beginning of American Romanticism
    
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    Washington Irving- his life and work
    
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    James Fenimore Cooper- his life and work
    
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    Naturalism. Nathaniel Hawthorne - his life and work
    
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    Edgar Allan Poe as a short story writer.
    
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    Herman Melville. Peculiarities of writing style in his novel “Moby Dick”
    
67. 
    American feminism: Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child
    
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    American drama: William Dunlap
    
69. 
    Abolitionism as a social movement. Representatives of Abolitionism.
    
70. 
    The Civil War in America and its influence on literature.
    
71. 
    Harriet Beecher-Stowe- her life and work. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851)
    
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- his life and work
    
73. 
    The Fireside Poets: William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Greenleaf Whittier
    
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    Realism in American literature.
    
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    Romanticism in American literature
    
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    Comparative analysis of English and American romanticism
    
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    Comparative analysis of English and American realism
    
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    The development of American literature after the war. (Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Frank Norris, Jack London).
    
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    Naturalism: William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, and Frank Norris
    
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    Louisa May Alcott - her life and work
    
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    Psychological Realism: Henry James
    
82. 
    American Literature of the 20th Century (1^st half). (Theodore Dreiser, John Silas Reed, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner)
    
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    American poetry of 20^th cent. (1^st half):Paul Laurence Dunbar,Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost
    
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    Whitman’s tradition in American poetry: Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes and others.
    
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    Imagism: Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound
    
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    Literature of the “Lost Generation” (Sherwood Anderson, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway)
    
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    Dadism and surrealism in American literature
    
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    Expressionism in American drama: Eugene O’Neill
    
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    Gertrude Stein - her life and work
    
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    Impressionistism: Dos Passos, John Roderigo
    
91. 
    Harlem Renaissance. The main representatives.
    
92. 
    The Great Depression and Its Legacy. (Langston Hughes, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell)
    
93. 
    Willa Cather -her life and work
    
94. 
    Margaret Mitchell- her life and work. Peculiarities of her novel “Gone with the wind”.
    
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    Western Genre: Zane Grey.
    
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    James Baldwin -his life and work
    
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    American literature after the Second World War
    
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    Beat Generation. The main representatives
    
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    Experimantation in American literature: Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo
    
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     Current Trends in American literature.