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ΤΟ ΜΑΘΗΜΑ ΑΠΟΣΚΟΠΕΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΩΝ ΑΛΛΩΝ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΩΝ ΕΙΔΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΓΡΑΦΤΗΚΑΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΟ ΤΟΥ ΡΟΜΑΝΤΙΣΜΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΒΡΕΤΑΝΙΑ (1780‒1832). Η ΕΞΕΤΑΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΛΕΓΜΕΝΩΝ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΩΝ ΓΙΝΕΤΑΙ ΜΕ ΓΝΩΜΟΝΑ ΤΙΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΕΣ ΣΥΝΘΗΚΕΣ ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΟΠΟΙΕΣ ΑΥΤΑ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΗΘΗΚΑΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΝΤΛΕΙ ΘΕΜΑΤΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΙΚΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗΣ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΧΩΡΟ ΤΩΝ ΡΟΜΑΝΤΙΚΩΝ ΣΠΟΥΔΩΝ. ΕΙΔΙΚΟΤΕΡΑ, ΤΟ ΡΟΜΑΝΤΙΚΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑ ΘΑ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΤΕΙ ΣΕ ΣΧΕΣΗ ΜΕ ΤΑ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΤΩ: ΦΥΣΗ, ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΗ, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟ ΦΥΛΟ, ΙΜΠΕΡΙΑΛΙΣΜΟΣ/ΕΞΩΤΙΣΜΟΣ, ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑ, ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΟ ΕΙΔΟΣ, ΚΑΙ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΙΚΗ ΔΡΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΤΗΤΑ. ΟΙ ΑΝΑΓΝΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΩΝ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΩΝ ΕΡΓΩΝ ΘΑ ΠΛΑΙΣΙΩΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΑ ΘΕΩΡΗΤΙΚΑ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ. ΣΤΟΥΣ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΙΣ ΠΟΥ ΘΑ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΘΟΥΝ ΠΕΡΙΛΑΜΒΑΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΟΙ BLAKE, BARBAULD, BYRON, COLERIDGE, SHELLEY, HEMANS, WORDSWORTH ΚΑΙ KEATS.
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Introduction
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& Bainbridge, Simon. “The Historical Context.” Romanticism: An Oxford Guide. Ed. Nicholas Roe. OUP, 2008.
i) Defences of Poetry / Romantic Theories of Art
William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802); “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” & from Letters [Negative Capability], [A Poet has no Identity] in Norton 9th, pp. 967-68, 972-73.
McKusick, James. “Nature.” A Companion to European Romanticism. Ed. Michael Ferber. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
Ferber, Michael. “Tintern Abbey.” The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2012.
Ferber, Michael. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2012.
ii) Revolution and Reaction
The Revolution Controversy and the “Spirit of the Age”: Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, James Gillray. (Norton 9th, pp. 183-207).
William Blake, “London.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”; “Ozymandias”
Dawson, P.M.S. “Poetry in an Age of Revolution.” The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
Ferber, Michael. “Ode to the West Wind.” The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2012.
iii) Gender
Mary Robinson, “London’s Summer Morning.”
Felicia Hemans, from Records of Woman: “Indian Woman’s Death Song.”
John Keats, Lamia.
Curran, Stuart. “Romantic Poetry: The I altered.” Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. A.K. Mellor, 1988. Rpt. in Romantic Writings, ed. Stephen Bygrave.
Mellor, Anne. “Keats and the Complexities of Gender.” The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Ed. Susan Wolfson. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
iv) Empire; Orientalism
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan.”
George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Giaour (PDF file on e-learning)
Richardson, Alan. “Slavery and Romantic Writing.” A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Leask, Nigel. “Easts.” Romanticism: An Oxford Guide. Ed. Nicholas Roe. OUP, 2005.
Butler, Marilyn. “The Orientalism of Byron’s Giaour.” Byron and the Limits of Fiction. Ed. Bernard Beatty and Vincent Newey. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 1988.
v) The English Romantics and the Greek War of Independence
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Preface to Hellas (PDF file on e-learning)
John Keats, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles.”
George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Don Juan, Canto III, “The Isles of Greece” (PDF file on E-learning); “On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year.”
Webb, Timothy. “Romantic Hellenism.” The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
Tyler, Tony. “Byron’s Greek Freedom in ‘The Isles of Greece’ Lyric.” The Byron Journal 31 (2003): 66-71.
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