Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture ( Poetry, Fiction, Literary and Social Criticism, Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation)-MA Seminar 3

Master's seminars

The seminar is to facilitate students' MA research on a chosen subject concerning the literature and culture of Victorian Britain. Alongside the practical information connected to writing the MA thesis, students will read and discuss texts which are indispensable for better understanding of the cultural and social issues of the Victorian era.

Second-cycle studies (Master's degree programme)

Classes will be conducted as workshops based on the assigned reading. Students will be conducting research projects which will be shared in the classroom. Some of the classes will be devoted to student-supervisor meetings to discuss the progress of the MA thesis and students' feedback.

The seminar is to facilitate students' MA research on a chosen subject concerning the literature and culture of Victorian Britain. Alongside the practical information connected to writing the MA thesis, students will read and discuss texts which are indispensable for better understanding of the cultural and social issues of the Victorian era. Suggested topics to be discussed during the course:

- Victorian novel and its readers,

- Victorian novel in film, om television and on stage,

- the business of Victorian publishing,

- the aesthetics of the Victorian novel,

- gender, domesticity and the Victorian novel,

- race, otherness, imperialism, colonialism and the Victorian novel,

- sensation and the fantastic and the Victorian Literature

- intellectual debates in the Victorian novel: religion and science,

- experimental form in Victorian poetry,

- the dramatic monologue,

- psychology, psychiatry, mesmerism, dreams, insanity and Victorian literature,

- Victorian mirror of history,

- the condition of England novel,

- adopting and adapting Victorian literature: stage, film, radio, television

Second-cycle studies (Master's degree programme)

"MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers." 8th Edition. The Modern Language Association of America, New York: 2016.

Burnham Bloom, Abigail and Mary Sanders Pollock. "Victorian Literature and Fil Adaptation." Cambria Press, 2011.

Leitch, Thomas (ed.). "The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies." OUP, 2017.

Glavin, John. "Dickens on Screen." CUP, 2003.

Guy, Josephine M. (ed.). "The Victorian Age. An Anthology of Sources and Documents." London: Routledge, 2002.

David, D. (ed.). "The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel." Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

Bristow, J. (ed.). "The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry." Cambridge: CUP, 2000.

Denisoff, D. (ed.). "The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories." Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004.

Black, J. (ed.). "The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Victorian Era." Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006.

Pike, Royston E. (ed.). "Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age." London: George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1974.

Robinson, Solveig (ed.). "A Serious Occupation. Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers." Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003.

Eigner, Edwin M., and George J. Worth (eds). Victorian Criticism of the Novel. Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

Knowledge

Students will be able to

K_W04 Characterize on an advanced level the principles of research design in literary and culture studies with special focus on the application of methods and tools in formulating research problems

K_W05 Identify the notions and principles pertinent to intellectual property and copyright

K_W06 Characterise economic, legal and other factors relevant for various kinds of professional activities

Abilities

Students will be able to

K_U01 Apply advanced terminology and notions pertinent to the discipline (linguistics, literary studies, culture and religion studies)

K_U02 Apply advanced research methodology within literary and culture studies and English studies, respecting ethical norms and copyright law

K_U03 Apply knowledge obtained during the course of studies to account for and solve a problem, thereby completing a research task related to the discipline literary studies and/or culture and religion studies related to the study programme

K_U06 Find information in various sources and critically assess its usefulness for research related to the topic of the MA project

K_U07 Use modern technology in the process of learning and communicating with academic teachers, colleagues, representatives of various institutions and fellow participants in classes and projects, applying various channels and techniques of communication

K_U04 Analyze literary and cultural phenomena and draw generalizations on their basis in the context of societal, historical and economic factors on an advanced level

K_U06 Find information in various sources and critically assess its usefulness for research related to the topic of the MA project

K_U07 Use modern technology in the process of learning and communicating with academic teachers, colleagues, representatives of various institutions and fellow participants in classes and projects, applying various channels and techniques of communication

K_U11 Design one’s own development

Social competencies

Students will be able to

K_K02 Apply knowledge and skills obtained during the course of studies to undertake lifelong learning, as well as personal and professional development

In class discussions students acquire skills of expressing their thoughts in a clear, coherent, logical and precise manner, with the use of language which is correct grammatically, lexically and phonetically.

• Active participation

• Continuous assessment of assignments and the MA research project

• Peer review and self-evaluation

• To pass the first semester of the MA seminar, the student has to submit a detailed research proposal of his/her MA thesis according to the specifications discussed in classes

To pass the second semester of the MA seminar, the student hast to submit one chapter of his/her MA thesis. To pass the third semester of the MA seminar, the student has to submit another chapter of his/her MA thesis. To pass the fourth semester, the student is required to submit the completed MA thesis.

Students who did not meet the requirements for passing the course in the first term may do so during the retake session.

No more than 2 absences are allowed.