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History of Literature of Western Europe and America of the 21st Century

ННД.01.10

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2021/2022

7 Semester

2

PLO 1, PLO 5, PLO 15, PLO 16, PLO 17, PLO 19, PLO 20, PLO 22, PLO 25, PLO 27. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section " Programme Profile".

Full-time form

The students have 1. to know the main stages of the literary process, understand the uniqueness of each period of development of Western European and American literature; 2. to be able to use terminology of literary theory. 3. to be able to apply different methodologies of literary analysis. 4. to complete successfully the previous courses that constitute parts of the complex course.

The objective of the course, which is part of the complex discipline "History of Foreign Literature", is to acquaint students with key development trends in the literary process in Western Europe and the United States, in particular in Anglophone literature of the 21st century. The course presents a number of representative texts in a variety of contexts (literary, socio-cultural, historical, political, etc.). Fragments of literary-critical texts as wells as some works of literature in English are involved in the study. The course forms an idea of continuity of the literary process of the 21st century, its genetic links with the literature of the 2nd half of the 20th century. While studying, students consolidate skills in the study of scientific and critical literature, critical literary analysis and the ability of problematic comparison and interpretation of textual material, master new terminology in specialty.

Підручники, хрестоматії The Uses of Literary History. Durham, 1995. Roche Mark William. Why Literature Matters in the 21st century? Yale, 2004. Questions of Cultural Identity. London, 1996. Braidotti Rosi. The Posthuman. Cambridge, 2013. Unseen 20th and 21st century literary texts. URL: https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/373395-unseen-20th-and-21st-century-literary-texts.pdf. Paul Giles. The Global Remapping of American Literature. Princeton, 2011. Levander Caroline F. Where is American Literature? Wiley, 2013. Висоцька Н.О. Єдність множинного: Американська література кінця ХХ-початку ХХІ ст. у контексті культурного плюралізму. К., 2010.

Forms of study encompass lectures, seminars, and students’ self-study. Forms of tuition include answers at the seminars, writing an essay, presenting the essay in the class, and a final test paper.

Formative assessment during semester. In-process evaluations of academic progress are worth of up to 60% of the semester grade and include grade points for all the tasks assigned in the course – max 30 / min 18 –for answers at the seminars, max 10 / min 6 for writing an essay, max 5 / min 3 for presenting the essay in the class, max 15 / min 9 – for the final test paper. Summative assessment is carried out in the form of exam. It weighs of up to 40% of the course grade. Students have to obtain no less than 36 points to be entitled for an examination. To get a positive course grade, the exam grade should not be less than 24 points. Examination card includes three questions: theoretical (max 15 / min 9 points), theoretical and/or applied (max 15 / min 9 points) and applied (max 10 / min 6 points). Correlation Scale According to 100-point scale Mark according to national scale 90–100 5 Еxcellent 75–89 4 Good 60–74 3 Satisfactory 35–59 2 Fail

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