Literary Forms and Movements
Level: BS 2nd
Course Code: ELL106
Course Description: This course covers two foundational schemes regarding the study of
literature: 1) Forms, and 2) Movements. The term “forms” refer to the
study of literary genres and their subtypes in such a way as to introduce
the students to their structures and styles with its focus on the following:
1) Poetry; 2) Fiction; 3) Drama; 4) Prose/Non-fiction; and 5) Short Story.
The term “movement” is rather loosely used to characterize literary texts
produced in different cultures under the influence of or for the
propagation of certain ideas as their hallmarks/signatures. The course
has been designed to intellectually groom the students for a broad
understanding of the major literary movements in the history of world
literature, especially British and American: Idealism (Greek),
Renaissance/Early Modern, Neoclassicism, Enlightenment,
Romanticism, Victorianism, Raphaelitism, Realism, Transcendentalism,
Modernism, Colonialism, Symbolism, Imagist and…