Identifying Data 2015/16
Subject (*) Xéneros e modos literarios en lingua inglesa Code 613505019
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
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Coordinador
Gomez Blanco, Carlos Juan
 E-mail
carlos.gomezb@udc.es
Lecturers
Gomez Blanco, Carlos Juan
 E-mail
carlos.gomezb@udc.es
Web http://www.imaes.eu/?page_id=31
General description Toda la información relativa tanto a esta materia como al resto del Máster la pueden encontrar en la dirección Web arriba señalada.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences / results

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences / results
--Learning to handle literary typology derived from the concepts of “genre” and “mode” -Engaging in theoretical discussions around the concepts of genre and mode -Learning about and analysing theoretical and literary texts in English from different historical periods within the concpetual framework of genre and mode.

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Contidos
1. Os conceptos de xénero e modo: definición, similitudes e diferencias
2. Formulacións xenéricas e modais na preceptiva literaria en lingua inglesa
3. Da comedia e o cómico á traxedia e o trágico: xéneros e modos en obras da tradición literaria en inglés
 Estudo de fontes (Dryden, Fielding, etc)

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies / Results Teaching hours (in-person & virtual) Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech 9 9 18
Seminar 5 5 10
Workbook 0 30 30
Supervised projects 0 11 11
Online forum 0 4 4
 
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
Guest lecture / keynote speech Lectures on the concepts of literary genre and mode.
Seminar Practical cases, examples from literary sources.
Workbook Readings will be guided through the course in class and with moodle.
Supervised projects 10-double spaced-page essay.
Online forum Virtual tutorials: queries, essay revision. Debate over issues.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Supervised projects
Description
Guidence

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies / Results Description Qualification
Seminar Commentaries and analyses made during the course. 40
Supervised projects Orally presented and or written essay 60
 
Assessment comments

Sources of information
Basic

Basic and complementary bibliography
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. Gerald F. Else. Michigan: The University Press, 1977.
Bushnell, Rebeca, ed. A Companion to Tragedy. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Derrida, Jacques. “The Law of Genre”. Trans. A. Ronell. Critical Inquiry 7/1 (1980): 55-81. Available at: http://eng1020.pbworks.com/f/DerridaLawofGenre.pdf
Fowler, Alastair. Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Genette, Gérard. The Architext: An Introduction. Trans. Jane A. Lewin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
Lodge, David. The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature. Cornell University Press, 1977.
Stott, Andrew. Comedy. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Genres in Discourse. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Wallace, Jennifer. The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Weitz, Eric. The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Complementary


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

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.