Study programme competencies |
Code
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Study programme competences / results
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A1 |
Coñecer e aplicar os métodos e as técnicas de análise lingüística e literaria. |
A2 |
Saber analizar e comentar textos e discursos literarios e non literarios utilizando apropiadamente as técnicas de análise textual. |
A7 |
Coñecer as literaturas en lingua galega, española e inglesa. |
A8 |
Ter dominio instrumental oral e escrito dunha segunda lingua estranxeira. |
A16 |
Ter un coñecemento avanzado das literaturas en lingua inglesa. |
A17 |
Coñecer a historia e a cultura das comunidades anglófonas. |
B1 |
Utilizar os recursos bibliográficos, as bases de datos e as ferramentas de busca de información. |
B5 |
Relacionar os coñecementos cos doutras áreas e disciplinas. |
B7 |
Ter capacidade de análise e síntese, de valorar criticamente o coñecemento e de exercer o pensamento crítico. |
B8 |
Apreciar a diversidade. |
Learning aims |
Learning outcomes |
Study programme competences / results |
To understand aspects of the evolution of English literature. |
A1 A2 A7 A16 A17
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B1 B5 B7 B8
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To understand aspects of the evolution of English literature. |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17
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B1 B5 B7 B8
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To be able to recognise and analyse the ideological contens of texts.
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A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17
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B1 B5 B7 B8
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To understand the differing aspects of British society and culture. |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17
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B1 B5 B7 B8
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To learn and apply techniques of literary criticism. |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17
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B1 B5 B7 B8
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To learn and apply techniques of literary criticism. |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17
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To understand the differing aspects of British society and culture. |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17
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B1 B5 B7 B8
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To be able to recognise and analyse the ideological contens of texts.
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A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17
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B1 B5 B7 B8
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Contents |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
1. The novel in the XVIIIth century. |
1.1. Introducción. A prensa.
1.2. Swift, Defoe
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2. Romanticism |
2.1 Introducción
2.2 Poesía: Wordsworth e Keats
2.3 Novela: Frankenstein Mary Shelley
2.4 Short Story: Scott The Two Drovers |
The XIXth century. |
3.1 Jane Austen Emma
3.2 The Brontës
3.3 Dickens
3.4 Wilde |
Planning |
Methodologies / tests |
Competencies / Results |
Teaching hours (in-person & virtual) |
Student’s personal work hours |
Total hours |
Supervised projects |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17 |
0 |
30 |
30 |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
B1 B5 B7 B8 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
Directed discussion |
A8 A16 A17 B1 B5 |
18 |
18 |
36 |
Seminar |
A7 A17 B5 B7 |
10 |
5 |
15 |
Workbook |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 |
0 |
45 |
45 |
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Personalized attention |
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4 |
0 |
4 |
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(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies |
Methodologies |
Description |
Supervised projects |
Individual or small group work. |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
Explanation of topics. |
Directed discussion |
Debate in class based on pre-reading of texts. |
Seminar |
In-depth discussion on topics. Small groups to allow greater individual participation.
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Workbook |
Reading of texts supplied (fragments or complete works). |
Personalized attention |
Methodologies
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Supervised projects |
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Description |
Oral and written, individual and group work based on texts and topics from this course. |
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Assessment |
Methodologies
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Competencies / Results |
Description
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Qualification
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Guest lecture / keynote speech |
B1 B5 B7 B8 |
Two tests (one mid-course, the other on the date of the final examination) in which students must show their command of the contents and skills from lectures, seminars and small groups. A minimum mark of 4/10 is necessary from each of these is required in order to be added to the overall mark for the other activities.
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50 |
Supervised projects |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 A17 |
Diverse works for assessment.
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30 |
Directed discussion |
A8 A16 A17 B1 B5 |
The teacher will assess the students' work and compromise on a day-to-day basis. Active participation and the interest shown will be taken into consideration. |
10 |
Workbook |
A1 A2 A7 A8 A16 |
Control of readings. |
5 |
Seminar |
A7 A17 B5 B7 |
Participation in work carried out in seminars. |
5 |
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Assessment comments |
<p> <p>in the June evaluation students will present an essay on the texts studies (50%) and sit an examination (50%). Students who satisfactorily presented work throughout the course do not need to hand in any additional essay. students who do not attend either of the two exams will be given the grade of "non presentado" if they have not done at least 50% of the assessment work during the course. Part-time and students with special dispensation must contat the teachers at the beginning of the course in order to plan each individual situation and the changes needed to compensate the percentages of the grade arising from directed discussion, reading and supervise projects.</p><div><br /></div><div><p><em>Students who have been granted exemption, as specified in the university regulations, will be assessed according to the criteria applied in the July opportunity.</em></p><p><em>Students sitting the December exam (final exam brought forward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the July opportunity.</em></p></div>
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Sources of information |
Basic
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Brantlinger, P. y Thesing, W. (eds) (2005). A Companion to the Victorian Novel . Oxford:Blackwell
Showalter, Elaine (1989). A Literature of their Own. From Brontë to Lessing. London: Routledge
Stevenson, Randall (1993). A Reader`s Guide to the 20th Century Novel in Britain. London: Harvester
Ruthven, K.K. (1984). Feminist Literary Studies. An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP
Ledger, Sally (1997). Fiction and Feminism at the fin de siècle. Manchester: Manchester UP
Álvarez Amorós et al (1998). Historia crítica de la novela inglesa . Salamanca:Ediciones Colegio de España
Lorenzo Modia, M.J. (1998). Literatura inglesa del siglo XVIII. A Coruña: Universidade da Coruña
Butler, Marilyn (1981). Rebels and Revolutionaries: English Literature and its Background, 1760-1830 . Londres y Oxford: O.U.P.
Liggins, Emma; Maunder, A.; Robins, R. (eds) (2011). The British Short Story. London: Palgrave
Copeland, E. &amp;amp;amp;amp; Mc Master, J. (eds) (2001). The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge: CUP
Marcus,L. and Nicholls (2005). The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature. Cambridge: CUP
Head, Dominic (2002). The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction 1950-2000. Cambridge: CUP
Rogers, P. (ed.) (1978). The Eighteenth Century. The Context of English Literature. London: Methuen
Stone, Lawrence (1990). The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Miles, Rosalind (1987). The Female Form. Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel. London: Routledge
Damrosch , D y Dettmar, K (eds) (2009). The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C: The Twentieth Century and Beyond (4th Edition). Londres: Longman
Gilbert, S. and Gubar, S. (2000). The Madwoman in the Attic. Yale UP
Chris, Carol T. et al (Eds) (2006). The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol 2. New York &amp;amp;amp;amp; London: Norton
Greenblatt, Stephen et al (eds) (2005). The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age. New York: Norton
Thomson, D. (1981). The Pelican History of England in the Twentieth Century. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Spencer, Jane (1986). The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. Oxford: Blackwell
Sanders, Andrew (1994). The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon
Todd, Janet (1992). The Sign of Angellica. Women, Writing and Fiction 1600-1800. Columbia UP
Wollstonecraft, Mary (2004). Vindicacion dos dereitos da muller. Santiago de Compostela: Sotelo Blanco |
Reading list: In most cases fragments of these works will be studied. David CXVIII Gulliver`s
Travels, Moll Flanders. CXIX Emma, Jane
Eyre. Blake poems. Wordsworth poems. Great Expectations, "Lord Arthur
Savile's Crime" CXX &
CXXI Daphne du
Maurier Rebecca. Antonia S.
Byatt. Medusa’s Ankle (Stories) P.D.
James Death Comes to
Pemberley |
Complementary
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Pyckett, Lynn (1995). Engendering Fictions. The English Novel in the Early 20th Century. London: Arnold
Eagleton, Mary (1998). Feminist Literary Criticism. London: Longman
Todd, Janet (1988). Feminist Literary History. London: Polity Press
Hanson, Clare (1987). Short Stories, Short Fiction 1880-1980. London: MacMillan
Bell, Michael (1980). The Context of English Literature. London: Methuen |
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Recommendations |
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
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Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously |
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Subjects that continue the syllabus |
Introdución aos Estudos Literarios/613G03005 | Literatura Inglesa 1/613G03010 |
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