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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2013) |
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| Literary Discourse and Society in the English-Speaking Countries |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Literary Discourse and Society in the English-Speaking Countries | Code | 613505004 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| The course tackles the relations between literature and society, placing special emphasis on the political and socio-historical contexts. | Likewise, the more relevant ideological and inter-textual relations—and also the main aesthetic aspects—will be considered when analysing and/or discussing literary (con)texts of the English-speaking world. |
| 1. Introduction: “Narratives of the Body” | • Chuck Palahniuk: “Guts” • Coco Fusco: Only Skin Deep. Changing Visions of the American Self • Sean Baker: Tangerine • Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters (Ch. 1-3) |
| 2. “Narratives of Space” | • Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Episode One, in Part I: “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”). • Fredric Jameson: The Cultures of Globalization (3-21: “Beyond Eurocentrism”). • Jessica Abel: La Perdida (3-61). • Ryan Murphy: Pose (Episode 1). |
| 3. “Discourses of Gender” | • Kathy Acker: Great Expectations (5-36) • Julia Kristeva: Powers of Horror (1-31) • David Benioff: Game of Thrones (episode TBA) • Judith Butler: Bodies that Matter (“Critically Queer” and/or “Gender is Burning”) |
| 4. “Discourses of Violence” | • Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto • Bruce Miller: The Handmaid's Tale (episode TBA) • Hannah Arendt: On Violence (selection) • Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Dangerous Border-Crossers (22-47) |
| 5. “Pre-Trauma Dystopias” | • Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium 1-51 • Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker and/or Jonathan Nolan: Westworld • Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation (selection) • Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake (Chapters 1 & 2) |
| 6. “Heterotopic Discourses and the ‘Non City’” | • Charles Bukowski: Tales of Ordinary Madness (selection) • Mike Davis: City of Quartz (19-62) • David Lynch: Lost Highway • David Harvey: Rebel Cities (3-25) |
| 7. “Immersion Narratives and the Terrain Vague” | • Ken Levine. Bioshock Trilogy • Bruce Straley. The Last of Us • Raoul Barbet. Life Is Strange • Patrice Désilets. Assassin’s Creed • Mark J. P. Wolf. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies (selection) |
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