ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages English (100%)
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
To study periodization in Anglophone Literatures.
To focus on the particular case of post-Illustration movements and periods
To analyse and to interpret texts belonging to different periods in Anglophone literatures.
To learn about, reflect on and even question and critize existing proposals on literary periodization/literary movements
To devise alternative ways of periodizing literature according to/guided by new/different concepts
This subject offers updated and in-depth knowledge about recent debates on the possibilities and limits of periodization of literature in English.
-CONCEPTS:
LITERARY HISTORY (Undergraduate programmes, anthologies/surveys for students, etc.)
PERIODIZATION (time span)
LITERARY MOVEMENTS (identification, description, adscription)
HISTORY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY (context)
-DEBATES:
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
USEFULNESS AND DRAWBACKS OF LITERARY PERIODIZATION
ALTERNATIVES TO CONVENTIONAL PERIODIZATION AND TO CLASSIC HISTORIES OF LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
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Advanced research within the field of cultural and literary studies in the Anglophone world. Through the study of a wide variety of literary and cultural readings which are representative of geographical backgrounds and historical periods, students are offered the possilibity of analysing and discussing the overall periodization of Anglophone literatures (i.e., the Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism) as well as the dominant ideological and cultural patterns in each period and geographical context which give rise to such literary productions (i.e., social fiction in the Great Depression, existentialism and Theatre of the Absurd in the postwar years, the rewriting of history and identity within Postcolonial literatures, self-reflexivity and cultural parody in the postmodern era, etc.)
Via an applied, practical methodology, the complex interrelations between artistic and literary creation, critical theory and reader reception, and cultural and sociopolitical trends will be discussed as determining factors in the formation and ongoing evolution of literary canons in the Anglophone world.
Basic Bibliography
Besserman, Lawrence, ed. The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives. Routledge, 2016.
Bluemel, Kristin, ed. Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Migrant Metaphors. 2nd. Ed. Oxford: O.U.P., 2005.
Bradbury, Malcolm and James MacFarlane. Modernism. London: Penguin, 1991.
Brooker, Peter and Andrew Thacker, eds. Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Cahoone, Lawrence, ed. From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Carter, Ronald. The Routledge History of Literature in English Britain and Ireland. London: Routledge, 1997.
Cockin, K. and Jago Morrison, eds., The Post-War British Literature Handbook. London & N.Y.: Continuum, 2010.
Currant, Stuart. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Ellmann, Maud. The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2010.
Gasiorek, Andrzej. Post-War British Fiction: Realism and After. London: Edward Arnold, 1995.
Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2004.
Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1999.
Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. London: Macmillan, 1995.
Ruland, Richard and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. A History of American Literature. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. London: Virago, 1982.
Travers, Martin. An Introduction to Modern European Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism. London: Macmillan, 1998.
Underwood, Ted. Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies. Standford University Press, 2015.
Van den Akker, Robin, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen, eds. Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth After Postmodernism. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
Warren, Joyce W. and Margaret Dickie, Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
Weir, David. Decadence and the Making of Modernism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
Further Reading
Almagro Jiménez, Manuel. A Dust of Words: Novela y Postmodernidad. Sevilla: Arcibel Editores, 2010.
Amigoni, David. Victorian Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Brown Tindall, George and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History, vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1996.
Shail, Andrew. The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism. New York: Routledge, 2012
Woodward-Smith, Elizabeth. Diccionario de referencias culturales en la literatura inglesa. A Coruña: Universidade de A Coruña, Servicio de Publicacións, 2002.
Young, Tory. Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
G01, G02, G04, G05, G06, E09, E10, E11, E13
G01 - Ability to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related to the various areas of English Studies, as well as to become familiar with the methodology required to solve those problems typical of this field of study.
G02 - Ability to apply the knowledge gained/obtained within the multidisciplinary and mutifaceted/versatile area of English Studies.
G04 - Ability to present experiences, ideas or reports in public, as well as to express informed opinions based on criteria, external rules or personal reflections, for which a sufficient command of the academic and scientific language, both written and oral, will be necessary.
G05 - Abilities to investigate and manage new knowledge and information within the context of English Studies.
G06 - Ability to acquire/achieve critical thinking that will lead students to consider the relevance of the existing research in the fields of study that make up/shape/define English Studies, as well as the relevance of their own investigations.
E09 - Knowledge of the main models and resources of literary/cultural research in the anglophone world.
E10 - Capacity to use the techniques used for the analysis of artistic and cultural texts in the anglophone world.
E11 - Capacity to identify and analyse the most relevant features of the anglophone culture and institutions through texts belonging to different historical periods.
E13 - Knowledge of the relationships between the main artistic and literary manifestations in the anglophone world.
Close textual analysis of general aspects of of literary movements in English Literature.
Essays, debates and presentations of selected texts and their mediations.
Tutorial and academic research supervised
40% participation (compulsory) (G04, G06, E09, E10)
30% Individual presentations and academic work (G01,G02,G04,G05)
30% In-class written exercise (G04,G06, E09, E11, E13)
Students unable to attend classes, students retaking the course, etc.: assessment will be based on the final written examination (= 100%). (G01, GO2, G04, G06, E09, E10, E11, E13)
Students who are officially exempt from attending lectures: final test 100%
Academic fraud will be severely penalized, and we apply article 16, from the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións”
With only 14 classes to attend, private and individual study is paramount.
Total number of hours: 75
Onsite work time: 14
Individual work time: 61
Prior reading of the requisite texts and general awarenss of recommended bibliography
Maria Alonso Alonso
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- maria.alonso.alonso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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