ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Galician (0.00%)
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Humanities
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
Review of the literature of the British Isles, United Satates and other countries. Review of the main literary periods, and authors. Focus on textual analysis from works by canonical authors.
SYLLABUS:
1. Introduction
1.1. Geographical, Historical and Social Context
1.2. Periods and Movements
1.3. Medieval/ Middle Ages
1.4. Old English (to 1100): Beowulf
1.5. Middle English (1066-1500): Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
2. Renaissance (XVI-XVI)
2.1. William Shakesperare: Macbeth/ Hamlet/ The Merchant of Venice
3. Age of Reason (XVIII), Romanticism (1790-1837)
3.1. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (book I)
3.2. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
3.3. Jane Austen: Emma
4. XIX and XX Century )
4.1. Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.
4.2. Charles Dickens: Hard Times
4.3. G. Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion
4.4. S. Beckett. Waiting for Godot
4.5. TS Eliot. The Waste Land
4.6. E. M. Forster: A Room with a View / A passage to India
4.7. James Joyce: Dubliners/ Portrait of the Artist
4.8. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
4.9. J. Conrad: Heart of Darkness
5. American Literature
5.1. N. Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
5.2. Herman Melville: Moby Dick
5.3. Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
5.4. E. Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms
5.5. W. Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury
5.6. FS Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
5.7. J Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye
5.8. Toni Morrison. Song of Solomon
6. Present Day and Postcolonial
6.1. Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
6.2. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
6.3. VS Naipaul: Guerrillas
6.4. S. Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
6.5. M. Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale
Prescribed Reading List:
1. Shakespeare. Macbeth.
2. Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (Book I)
3. Beckett. Waiting for Godot.
4. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
5. C. Achebe. Things Fall Apart
6. Poetry Seclection.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. La verdad de las mentiras. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2002.
Álvarez Amorós, José Antonio (ed). Historia crítica de la novela inglesa. Salamanca: Ediciones Colegio de España, 1998.
Burgess, Anthony. Historia de la literatura inglesa. Madrid, 1981.
Pérez Gállego, Cándido, ed. Historia de la literatura inglesa. Madrid, 1984. 2 vols.
Galván, Fernando. Literatura inglesa medieval. Madrid: Alianza, D.L, 2001.
Bregazzi, Josephine. Shakespeare y el teatro renacentista inglés. Madrid, 1999.
- Comunicative ability to express ideas and social exchange
- Ability for critical analysis of artistic works from different periods and styles.
- Ability to obtain documents for cultural communication.
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Final Exam 100%
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Jesus Varela Zapata
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 982824715
- varela.zapata [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| 05.20.2024 10:00-12:30 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 12 |
| 06.21.2024 10:00-12:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 12 |
| Teacher | Language |
|---|---|
| VARELA ZAPATA, JESUS | English |