British Cultural Module

The course consists of two parts:
• Lectures English Romanticism
• Tutorials British Society and Culture
English Romanticism
• Emergence of (Pre)Romanticism as a reaction to the hitherto classicist doctrine of writing and spiritual perception of the world
• Understanding of the phenomenon of Romanticism from the perspective of the socio-economic consequences of the industrial revolution
• Analysis and interpretation of selected prose works of English Romanticism
• Intercultural and intertextual connections between English and Slovene literatures, both in the period of Romanticism and later, with a special emphasis on the influence of the English authors upon Slovene literary production
• Emergence of specific Romantic ideas and concepts, such as national Romanticism, Weltschmertz, Helenism, folk culture and language, national epics, etc.

British Society and Culture
Stereotypes, British humour, the Monarchy, selected chapters from British history, British media, education, social classes, religious and racial issues, England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland

English Romanticism
Day, Aidan. Romanticism. London: Routledge, 2012. COBISS.SI-ID – 52375394
Bogataj Gradišnik, Katarina. Grozljivi roman. Ljubljana: DZS, 1991. COBISS.SI-ID – 24751104
Curran, Stuart (ur.). The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. COBISS.SI-ID – 1936738
Izenberg, Gerald N. The Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution and the Origins of Modern Selfhood. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992. COBISS.SI-ID – 18274
Kos, Janko. Romantika. Ljubljana: DZS, 1980. COBISS.SI-ID - 11193601
Manning, Peter J. Reading Romantics: Texts and Contexts. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990. COBISS.SI-ID – 35006721
Raimond, Jean. A Handbook to English Romanticism. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. COBISS.SI-ID - 289890
British Society and Culture
Fox, K. 2004. Watching the English. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Str.: 416. COBISS.SI-ID – 5551072
Paxman, J. 2007. The English, a Portrait of a People. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books. COBISS.SI-ID – 48173922
Limon, D. 2009. British society and culture: from a Slovene perspective. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. Str. 270. COBISS.SI-ID – 247394816