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Postgraduate in British and American Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Postgraduates majoring in English literature and English language and literature in Beijing Foreign Studies University have a solid basic knowledge of literature and basically master literary criticism theory and scientific research methods. Systematically understand the history of British and American literature; Systematically study the characteristics of various important development stages of British and American literature and their representative writers and works; Understand the latest achievements of British and American literature research at home and abroad; Can independently carry out some innovative research in the fields of literary criticism theory, British and American novels, poetry, drama and so on under the guidance of the tutor.

Postgraduate courses in English language and literature for British and American literature majors in Beijing Foreign Studies University: comparison of Chinese and Western cultures, academic frontiers, Shakespeare's plays, western classical literary theory, 20th century western literary theory, bibliography, Chaucer,17th century English literature,18th century English novels, Victorian novels, modern English novels, contemporary English novels, 19. American poetry,/kloc-American novels in the 0/9th century, American dramas in the 20th century, modern American novels, contemporary American novels, American female novels, Asian American literature, narratology and literary criticism practice.

Philology and research methods are compulsory courses for literature graduate students. By introducing the skills of literary criticism and research to students, we can master the basic knowledge of literary research, such as paper writing, document use, document arrangement, information consultation, oral report and annotated bibliography writing, so as to improve students' ability of independent learning and research.

The course of western classical literary theory familiarizes graduate students with the classical works of western literary theory from Plato to19th century. This is an interdisciplinary postgraduate course, involving literature, philosophy, history, aesthetics, hermeneutics, psychology, cultural anthropology and many other disciplines. Courses include Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's The Art of Poetry, Lang Girnus's On Sublime, Sidney's Debate on Poetry, Burke's philosophical discussion on the origin of the concepts of sublimity and beauty, Lessing's laocoon, Goethe-Goethe Dialogue, Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, etc.

The course "Contemporary Western Literary Theory" aims to help students understand contemporary literary theory and hot issues discussed in western literary circles, and improve the theoretical level of literary criticism. Introduce psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, new historicism, homosexuality theory, post-colonialism, post-modern space and other theories. Topics for discussion: self and others, gender and sexuality, history and ideology, knowledge and power, speech and writing, nature and culture, experience and identity, etc.

Shakespeare's drama course requires students to read six Shakespeare's plays (including tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy and historical drama), and the discussion focuses on the drama tradition in the Renaissance, the main characteristics of Shakespeare's drama art and the main schools of Shakespeare's drama criticism in the 20th century. By discussing some film versions of Shakespeare's plays, students can understand the artistic form of drama: drama is a combination of literature and performing arts. The course requirements include a test on the script, an oral report on the review articles read, and a final paper. (excerpt)

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