Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
English Literature (20th and 21st Centuries) |
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Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
Subject | English Literature (20th and 21st Centuries) | Code | 613G03040 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Theoretical programme and Reading proposals | Syllabus and required reading: 1.- Modernism as a literary movement: poetry and novel. T.S. Eliot. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf. 2.- D.H. Lawrence and George Orwell 3. - From post-war to the 70s. 4.- End of century and XXIst century. Required reading. Poetry: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) Selection of de poetry (available in photocopy) Novel: James Joyce, Ulysses (first chapter) One of the following novels: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories George Orwell, 1984 Theatre (one of the following plays): Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter, The Caretaker Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead One of the following novels: Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things Anna Burns, The Milkman Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me Popular culture: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Selected song lyrics from David Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, The Cure ... |
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