ENGLESKA KNJIŽEVNOST KLASICIZMA I SENTIMENTALIZMA

After passing the exam students - will be familiar with the literature, cultural and historical conditions in England in the 18th century, i.e. in the age of Classicism and Sentimentalism; - will get acquainted with the socio-historical context of the 18th century England, and the basic philosophical and political trends of the Age of Reason/Enlightenment; - will be able to name the most important writers and works of the period of Neoclassicism; - will be able to contextualize the most prominent writers of English classicism; - will be able to recognize the main aesthetic, epistemological and political characteristics of Rationalism and (Neo)Classicism; - will be able to independently interpret literary texts created in the era of Neoclassicism in England; - will be able to comprehensively understand the English literary and intellectual history through insight into the 18th century sources of literary and intellectual traditions, mainly the socio-historical and cultural conditioning of the emergence and popularization of the novel genre in England; - will be trained for further independent work on the relevant literary sources both in print and e-sources.