English Studies

G R A D U A T E D E G R E E P R O G R A M M E : E N G L I S H S T U D I E S
Prerequisites
Course contents
Recommended
reading
Supplementary
reading
future researchers of language and discourse to develop critical and
analytical competences, as well as in educating competent teachers and
translators.
Knowledge and competences acquired by completing the undergraduate
study programme English language and literature or an equivalent study
programme.
Literary (and non-literary) texts, their conceptual underpinnings as well as
their aesthetic and cultural structures are analysed with an emphasis on
textual and historical detail and the interplay of writing and reading
conventions in the process of activating text into discourse.
The introductory parts of the course deal with the basic techniques and
problem solving in studying texts (asking questions, analysing units of
structure) and the dimensions of language variation (according to time,
place, context, gender, society) that provide the communicative background
to a specific text. Two of the main parts focus on analysing poetic form
(rhyme and sound patterning, verse and metre, parallelism, deviation) and
on ways of making meaning indirectly (metaphor, irony, juxtaposition,
allusion and intertextuality). The other two are concerned with what makes
a story and how stories are told (genre, narrative, writing, speech and
thought presentation, narrative point of view) and with questions of
authorship and audience (positioning the reader or spectator, authorship and
intention, judgement and value).
Attridge, D. (2004). The Singularity of Literature. London & New York:
Routledge.
Montgomery, M., Fabb, N., Furniss, T., Mills, S., Durant, A. (2000).
Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English
Literature (2 nd edn.). London & New York: Routledge.
Hall, G. (2005). Literature in Language Education. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Toolan, M. (2001). Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction (2 nd edn.).
London & New York: Routledge.
Wainwright, J. (2004). Poetry: The Basics. London & New York:
Routledge.
Teacher-generated materials.
1. Teacher-generated materials
2. Selected chapters from:
Bonačić, M. (1999). Tekst, diskurs, prijevod. Split: Književni krug.
Cook, G. (1994). Discourse and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Green, K. & Bihan, J. (1996). Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook.
London: Routledge.
Lecercle, J. J. (1999). Interpretation as Pragmatics. Houndmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press Ltd.
Scholes, R. (1985). Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of
English. New Haven – London: Yale University Press.
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