Identifying Data 2018/19
Subject (*) Literary and Cultural Movements in English-Speaking Countries 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 Optional 3
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Letras
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
A9 E09 – Familiarity with the main models and resources in literary/cultural research in the English-speaking domain.
A10 E10 –Ability to use appropriate techniques for the analysis of artistic and cultural texts in the English-speaking domain.
A11 E11 – Ability to identify and analyse the most relevant characteristics of culture and institutions in the English-speaking world through the study of different types of texts belonging to different historical periods.
A13 E13 – Familiarity with the relationship between the main artistic and literary manifestations in the English-speaking domain.
B6 G01 –The capacity to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related with the different fields of English Studies is a necessary skill, as is the ability to solve specific problems in a particular field of study via appropriate methodology.
B7 G02 – Students must be capable of applying the knowledge acquired in the multidisciplinary and multifaceted area of English Studies
B9 G04 – Students must be able to publicly present their ideas, reports or experiences, as well as give informed opinions based on criteria, external norms or personal reflection. All of this implies having sufficient command of both oral and written academic and scientific language
B10 G05 – Skills related to research and the handling of new knowledge and information in the context of English Studies are to be acquired by students
B11 G06 – Students should be able to develop a critical sense in order to assess the relevance of both existing research in the fields of English Studies, and their own research.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
AR10
 BR7
BR10
GO1,GO”, GO$,GO5.GO6,EO9,EO10,EO11,EO13 AR9
 BR6
BR11
AR11
 BR9
AR13

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1.-Introduction to periodization in English Literature.
 Special attention to one period and literary movement to be selected.
2.-Chaucer. Atención especial a un periodo e movemento que se seleccionará.
3.-Shakespeare. Análise da obra de Chaucer.
4.-Contemporary poetry in England and Ireland. Os movementos culturais e poéticos dos séculos XX e XXI.
Advanced research within the field of cultural and literary studies in the Anglophone world. Through the study of a wide variety of literary and cultural readings which are representative of geographical backgrounds and historical periods, students are offered the possilibity of analysing and discussing the overall periodization of Anglophone literatures (i.e., the Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism) as well as the dominant ideological and cultural patterns in each period and geographical context which give rise to such literary productions (i.e., social fiction in the Great Depression, existentialism and Theatre of the Absurd in the postwar years, the rewriting of history and identity within Postcolonial literatures, self-reflexivity and cultural parody in the postmodern era, etc.).

 Via an applied, practical methodology, the complex interrelations between artistic and literary creation, critical theory and reader reception, and cultural and sociopolitical trends will be discussed as determining factors in the formation and ongoing evolution of literary canons in the Anglophone world.

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Seminar A9 A10 10 20 30
Guest lecture / keynote speech A11 A13 5 20 25
Long answer / essay questions B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 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
Long answer / essay questions
Description
Orientación cara á elaboración e presentación dos traballos.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Guest lecture / keynote speech A11 A13 Puntuarase a asistencia do alumnado as sesións e a súa participación. 20
Long answer / essay questions B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 Ensaio final longo. 60
Seminar A9 A10 Ensaios e outras actividades na clase. 20
 
Assessment comments

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge ; New York. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Andrew Thacker, eds. Geographies of Modernism : Literatures, Cultures, Spaces . New York: Routledge, 2005.

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Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. London: Virago, 1982.

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Woodward Smith, Elizabeth. Diccionario de referencias culturales en la literatura inglesa. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de A Coruña, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2002.

Young, Tory. Studying English Literature : A Practical Guide. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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