English Literature

Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC

Departamento de Letras e Artes - DLA

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Coordenação: Prof. Isaias Francisco de Carvalho / Profa. Elaine Cristina Medeiros Frossard

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English Literature Tasks

(LTA094 - Literatura Inglesa)

These tasks and resources are for free use by both professors and students of Anglophone Literature.

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English Literature - Project Gutemberg

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Tasks

Assignments for UESC English Literature students

Task 1 Read the Course Description, the Course Plan (on the right column), Assessment, and the Bibliography of English Literature - UESC.

Task 2 Review of "An Outline of Anglophone Literature"

a) Go to Questions on Literature. Be ready for group discussion.

b) Go to A few teaching/learning principles. Be ready to discuss them with your peers and the professor. Reflect upon them. Pick out one of them which is your number 1.

c) Go to Some Anglophone Authors and some of their works. Choose one of the authors to share some interesting information on his/her bio and works.

d) Go to Critical Approaches to Literature. Answer the questions.

Task 3 Read the information about Journal Writing. Once a month you are expected to turn in your journal writing notebook with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 150 words. [3 entries throughout the course] (optional)

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Course Plan 2019.2

Dates with assignments and notes

Monday mornings (T01) and Friday evenings (T02)

February 7th - 7pm (T02) / February 7th - 9am (T01)

Prova Final

"Final Exam"

"Make-up Exam"

[1] Entrega de atividades e apresentações atrasadas

[ou não feitas durante o semestre]

[2] Redação de um texto dissertativo de, no mínimo, 200 palavras, em língua inglesa, sobre um dos seis itens a serem listados contendo temáticas e objetos referentes à disciplina. [Materiais impressos referentes à disciplina e dicionários impressos poderão ser consultados]

Task 4 Go to The beginnings (in: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature). Answer the following questions:

1. What peoples formed the British culture?

Which of those peoples most influenced English Literature, as we know it? [§ 1]

2. What are the chief constituents of English Literature, from Old English poetry

to the present? [§ 2]

3. What is the most important literary work (poem) in Old English? [§ 2]

4. (related to question #3) What is it mainly about? [§ 3]

5. What is the main theme of Old English poetry in general? [§ 3]

6. What is the main difference between the relationship of man with nature in Old English poetry and that in later literature? [§ 5]

Task 5 Beowulf

5.1 Listen to Beowulf's Opening lines as you read lines 1-21 in Old English, and check them in the modern English version by Francis Gummere. [highlight some fragments and write a few comments and/or impressions]

5.2 Click here. Read about the history of the epic poem Beowulf. Highlight main ideas/information and share them in class.

5.3 Check some specifics of Old English writing in Beowulf. Click here.

Task 6 6.1 Read about Geoffrey Chaucer's life and works. Click here. Take notes of important information. [whole class]

6.2 Go to the Geoffrey Chaucer page. Read the first stanza of The wife of Bath's tale. Do research on this specific tale. Take notes of important information. [whole class]

6.3 Go to the Geoffrey Chaucer page. Read all the The wife of Bath's tale. Highlight fragments and make comments. [whole class]

November 18th (T01) / 22nd (T02)

Task 1 + check contact info

Plan tasks 7 + 4 + 10

Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror"

(try a different translation to Portuguese from Cardoso's)

Task 2 a)

Who's the professor?

Dr. Isaias Carvalho

isaiasfcarvalho@gmail.com

Click on the photo to reach my full Currículo Lattes

Task 7 Other texts in The Canterbury Tales:

Who's the teaching assistant?

The General Prologue [everyone (T01) Lucina e Maysa; ]

The Knight's Tale [student(s): (T01) Lara e Ananda; (T02) Lori]
- The Miller's Tale [student(s): (T01) Láisa, Grasiellen, Sara; (T02) Levi]
- The Reeve's Tale [student(s): (T01) Gilmar e Milton; ]
The Cook's Tale [student(s): (T01) Letícia Mendonça, Adriellen e Sionária; (T02) Lindomar]
- The Friar's Tale [student(s): (T01) Gabriel e Bruno; ]
- The Man of Law's Tale [student(s): (T01) Max e Edielle; (T02) Natalie]
- The Parson's Tale [student(s): (T01) Lígia e Juliana; ]
- The Nun's Priest's Tale [student(s): (T01) Luan e Antonio]
- The Pardoner's Tale [student(s): (T01) Mateus ]
- The Prioress's Tale [student(s): (T01) Jessica ]
- The Wife of Bath's Tale [student(s): (T01) Letícia Matos e Jadson; (T02) Luana]

Task 8 Click on and explore the 3 links below on the Renaissance in England and elsewhere. Take note of at least 5 different relevant pieces of information (at least 1 from each link).

(1) Luminarium 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)

(2) The Norton Anthology of English Literature The Sixteenth Century

(3) English Renaissance Henry VII and the Launching of the English Renaissance

Task 9 Review of "An Outline of Anglophone Literature". Go to the Shakespeare page. Randomly pick any of the links on Shakespeare. Explore it. Bring at least 3 new pieces of information that called your attention.

Task 10 Poem of the day (Individually or in pairs) At the beginning of each class, a student will be assigned to give a 5-minute presentation of an English poem: read it, highlight aspects of it, present a [real] very short bio of the poet etc.

Task 11 Student counseling

Task 12 Read "Five events that shaped the history of English". Share and discuss its main ideas in class.

Task 13 Do open research in order to define, compare and contrast:

1. British Literature

2. English Literature

3. Anglophone Literature

4. Literatures in English

Task 14 Open the attached file named Not the Queen's English. Explore its vocabulary and content. Answer the questionnaire that follows the report.

Task 15 The Norton Anthology of English Literature

Use this source to subsidies your choice of author/theme/work for your oral presentation and/or final commentary. Another option: Luminarium.org

Me. Renato Peruzzo

naticos15@gmail.com

Check out the make-up classes - Plan below

November 25th (T01) / 29th (T02)

Tasks 2 a) c) + 4

Task 10 Poem of the day [(T01) Ananda, Bruno, Gabriel, Grasiellen, Láisa]

Make-up class: Task 4 [to be sent by e-mail until January 3rd]

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Task 16 William Shakespeare

Reading and discussion of Anthony Burgess’s "William Shakespeare" (chapter 9 of English Literature - click here)

1. Why was Shakespeare important as a dramatist? Nowadays, why is he still important?

2. What is most impressive about Shakespeare according to Burgess?

3. Why did Shakespeare write his plays? What was he aiming with it?

4. Over time, how have Shakespeare’s plays been analyzed?

5. Pick one Shakespearean work (by Burgess’ synthesis) and make comments about its plot.

Anglophone Literature

Language Week 2019

Emerging technologies and digital strategies

November 28th to 29th

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December 2nd (T01) / 6th (T02)

Task 5 + 6

Plan: Oral presentations schedule

Task 10 Poem of the day [(T01) Gilmar, Lara, Letícia Mendonça, Lígia, Lucina; (T02) Levi]

December 9th (T01) / 13th (T02)

Quiz about Geoffrey Chaucer’s life and works

Task 10 Poem of the day [(T01) Maysa, Milton, Letícia Matos; (T02) Lindomar]

(T01/T02): Literature and Philosophy: the concept of representation

December 16th (T01) / 20th (T02)

(T01/T02): Task 7 [crédito 1]

2020 - Happy New Year!

January 6th (T01) / 10th (T02)

(T01/T02): Sexual and Gender Diversity: the movie Were the world mine -- an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night's Dream

Task 10 Poem of the day [(T01) Luan, Jéssica, Sionaria, Max, Antonio, Edielle, Juliana, Sara, Antonio, Adrielle, Mateus, Letícia Matos; (T02) Luana, Natalie, Lori]

Read A vingança da deflorada de Bath by Solange Reimberg (a sequel to Chaucer's The wife of Bath)

January 13th (T01) / 17th (T02)

[crédito 2]

(T01):

Hamlet - Grasiellen e Láisa

Macbeth - Gabriel e Bruno

Twelfth night - Lara e Ananda

Taming of the Shrew - Maysa e Lucina

Antony and Cleopatra - Gilmar e Milton

Midsummer Night's Dream - Letícia Mendonça e Adrielle

Romeo and Juliet - Lígia e Juliana

King Lear - Sara e Jadson