M191003English and American Literature (Special Lectures)
| Numbering Code | G-LET20 6M191 LJ36 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ First semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | special lecture | |
| Target Year | Target Student | |||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Fri.4 | |
| Instructor name | MINAMITANI YOSHIMI (Graduate School of Letters Associate Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course | This lecture will examine some of the more famous biographies written in English. | |||
| Course Goals | The aim is cultivate the advanced knowledge of, and the critical thinking about, this branch of literature. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
The schedule is as follows: Class 1 Introduction Class 2 Thomas More (Life of Richard III, Roper's Life of Thomas More) Class 3 Samuel Johnson (Essay on Biography) Class 4 Samuel Johnson (Life of Richard Savage) Class 5 James Boswell (Life of Samuel Johnson) Class 6 James Boswell (Life of Samuel Johnson) Class 7 Robert Southey (The Life of Nelson) Class 8 Walter Scott (The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte) Class 9 John G. Lockhart (Life of Walter Scott) Class 10 Elizabeth Gaskell (Life of Charlotte Bronte) Class 11 John Forster (Life of Charles Dickens) Class 12 James A. Froude (Life of Thomas Carlyle) Class 13 Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians) Class 14 Virginia Woolf（“The New Biography”“The Art of Biography”） Class 15 Feedback (I shall answer questions in my office) |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Evaluation will be based 100% on the term paper, which will be assessed on the basis of achievement level for course goals. | |||
| Course Requirements | None | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | This will be explained in the first class. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Hand-outs will be distributed, when necessary. | ||
