Оказалось, нам решили прочесть один коротенький хороший лекционный курс. Об английском мышлении как таковом. Жаль, налезает он на моё расписание. Но лектор оказался не жаден, и сразу перечислил в рассылке основные ключевые тексты, на которые опирается. Так что как-нибудь на досуге можно будет почитать в охотку.
Если кому интересно, список вместе с аннотацией
вот:
IDENTITY, AUTHENTICITY, ETHNICITY
will be taught by Prof. John Stotesbury from the University of Eastern Finland
This course is designed to pursue a variety of exploratory routes within the fields of English (and “English”) Literary and Cultural Studies in an attempt to define the debate over Englishness (as opposed to Britishness and the derogatorily labeled “Celtic Fringe nations”). Key theoretical texts will include Robert J. C. Young, The Idea of English Ethnicity (2008), Ross Poole, Nation and Identity (1999), Susan Bassnett, ed., Studying British Cultures (1997), and Benedict Anderson’s well-known Imagined Communities (1983). The course itself will work on an interactive basis and include reference to extracts from a wide selection of primary texts, both printed and recorded, by English and other authors, including two whose explorations in Englishness were re-explored at later dates: H. V. Morton, In Search of England (1927) and Joe Bennett, Mustn’t Grumble: In Search of England and the English (2006), on the one hand, and J. B. Priestley, English Journey (1934) and Paul Theroux, The Kingdom by the Sea (1983), on the other. The course will find its provisional conclusion in discussion of the impact of diasporic communities on the perceived nature of Englishness.