Identifying Data 2015/16
Subject (*) Movementos literarios e culturais dos países de fala inglesa Code 613505016
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2013)
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 2nd four-month period
First Optativa 3
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Coordinador
Toro Santos, Antonio Raul de
E-mail
antonio.toro.santos@udc.es
Lecturers
Toro Santos, Antonio Raul de
E-mail
antonio.toro.santos@udc.es
Web http://www.imaes.eu/?page_id=31
General description To analyse texts belonging to different periods in English literature

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
GO1,GO”, GO$,GO5.GO6,EO9,EO10,EO11,EO13

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Introduction to periodization in English Literature.
Special attention to one period and literary movement to be selected.
Introducción a la periodización en la literatura inglesa. Se prestará especial atención a un período y movimiento que se seleccionará.
Introducción a periodización na literatura inglesa, con atención especial a un periodo e movemento que se seleccionará.

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Seminar 10 20 30
Guest lecture / keynote speech 5 20 25
Long answer / essay questions 3 15 18
 
Personalized attention 2 0 2
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Seminar Exposición das diferentes lecturas e discusión cos alumnos.
Guest lecture / keynote speech Presentación do profesor.
Long answer / essay questions Traballos e ensaios dos alumnos.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Description


Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Guest lecture / keynote speech Puntuarase a asistencia do alumnado as sesións e a súa participación. 20
Long answer / essay questions Ensaio final longo. 60
Seminar Ensaios e outras actividades na clase. 20
 
Assessment comments

Sources of information
Basic
Amigoni, David.
Victorian
L
iterature
.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011.
The Cambridge Companion to British R
omanticism
. Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Balshaw, Maria and Liam Kennedy, eds.
Urban Space and Representation
. London:
Pl
uto, 2000.
Benjamin, Walter.
The Arcades Project
. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002.
Bradbury, Malcolm and James MacFarlane.
Modernism
. London: Penguin, 1991.
Brooker, Peter.
Modernity and Metropolis
:
Writing, Film and Urban Formations
. New
York: Palgra
ve, 2002.
---
and Andrew Thacker, eds.
Geographies of Modernism : Literatures, Cultures,
Spaces
. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Brown Tindall, George and David E. Shi.
America: A Narrative History, vol. 2.
New
York: Norton, 1996.
Carter, Ronald.
The Routledge History of L
iterature in English Britain and Ireland
.
London : Routledge, 1997
.
Caws, Mary Ann, ed.
City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film
.
Amsterdam: Gordon and Brea
ch, 1991.
Clarke, Graham.
The American City
. New York: Helm, 1997.
---
. The American City: Literary Sources and Documents. Robertsbridge: Helm, 1997.
Cuerkovich, A.
Mixed Feelings Feminism
,1992
Donald, James.
Imagining the Modern City
. Minneapolis
: U of Minnesota P, 1999


Hand, Derek.
A H
istory of the Irish N
ovel : from 1665 to 2010
.
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Henkin, David M.
City Reading
. New York: Columbia UP, 1998.
Hurm, Gerd
. Fragmented Urban Images: The American City in Modern Fiction from
Stephen Cr
ane to Thomas Pynchon
.
New York : Peter Lang, 1991
Hughes, W.
Maniac in the Cellar
,1980.
Legates, Richard T.
The City Reader
. London: Routledge, 2003.
Lehan, Richard.
The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History
. Berkeley:
U of Califo
rnia P, 1998.
Lombardo, Patrizia.
Cities, Words and Images
:
From Poe to Scorsese
. Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Miller, D.A.
Cage aux Folles
,1980
Pike, Burton.
Image of the City in Modern Literature
.
New Jersey: Princeton, UP.
1981.
Shail, And
rew.
The Cinema and the Origins of Literar
y Modernism
.
New York :
Routledge, 2012
Shiel, Mark.
Screening the City
. London: Verso, 2003.
Showalter, Elaine.
A Literature of Their O
wn :
British Women N
ovelists from Brontë to
Lessing
. London: Virago,
1982.
Tillotson, K.
The Woman in White
, 1969
Williams, Raymond.
The Country and the City
. London: Chatto, 1973.
Woodward
-
Smith, Elizabeth.
Diccionario de referencias culturales en la l
iteratura
inglesa
.
Santiago de Compostela : Universidade de A Coruña, Departamento de
Filología Inglesa, 2002
.
Young, Tory.
Studying English
L
iteratur
e : A
Practical G
uide
.
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

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Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.