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)
-To provide the student with an overview of the history of English literature from its origins to the present day.
-To learn to establish relationships between the literary production at a given period and the social, cultural and political context in which it took place.
-To contribute to the students' learning to write analytically on English Literature and to read criticism with responsive understanding.
Contidos/ Contenidos/ Syllabus
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.
Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain and Ireland. London & New York: Routledge, 2001.
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
FURTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Abrams, M. H., et. al., gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 2 vols. 7th ed. New York: Norton, 2000.
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature. London: Macmillan, 2000.
Barbeito Varela, J. Manuel, El individuo y el mundo moderno. El drama de la identidad en siete clásicos de la literatura británica. Oviedo: Septem, 2004.
Drabble, Margaret, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature. 8 vols. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988.
Fowler, Alastair. A History of English Literature: Forms and Kinds from the Middle Ages to the Present. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
Rogers, Pat, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Diachronic knowledge of the history of English literature.
-Knowledge of the social, cultural and political context of English Literature.
-Command of critical terminology and of its application in the analysis of cultural and literary texts.
-Competence in the organisation, support and summary of ideas.
This module will have no face to face classes. Please, contact your professor to plan your learning activities.
This module will have no face to face classes. Please, contact your professor to plan your learning activities. There will be a single grade for final exam 100%.
This module will have no face to face classes. Please, contact your professor to plan your learning activities.
This module will have no face to face classes. Please, contact your professor to plan your learning activities.
Jesus Varela Zapata
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 982824715
- varela.zapata [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| Teacher | Language |
|---|---|
| VARELA ZAPATA, JESUS | English |