Identifying Data 2018/19
Subject (*) Textual and Cultural Negotiations in English-Speaking Countries Code 613505020
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
Galician
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Letras
Coordinador
Clark Mitchell, David Mitchell
 E-mail
david.clark@udc.es
Lecturers
Clark Mitchell, David Mitchell
 E-mail
david.clark@udc.es
Web http://www.imaes.eu/?page_id=31
General description All information referring to this subject can be found on the above web site.

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.
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
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. AR10
AR11
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. AR9
AR10
AR11
 BR11
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. AR9
AR10
AR11
AR13
 BR9
BR10
BR11

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1) Negotiating cultural stereotypes. 1.1 Popular culture.
1.2 Theories of Adaptatioon
2) Crossing the tracks. 2.1 Irvine Welsh - Translation, music film.
2.2 Scraping the net: Literature and the social networks.
2.3 Literature and film

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Workbook A9 1 10 11
Workshop A10 B11 1 8 9
Directed discussion A11 2 14 16
Oral presentation A13 B9 B10 2 20 22
Introductory activities B9 2 14 16
 
Personalized attention 1 0 1
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Workbook Bibliographical activities, guided reading.
Workshop Group activities.
Directed discussion Debateon texts and their context.
Oral presentation Individual presented to the rest of the group.
Introductory activities Presentation based on prior reading.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Directed discussion
Oral presentation
Introductory activities
Description
Personal help from the teacher.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Directed discussion A11 Debate 10
Oral presentation A13 B9 B10 Individual activities. 60
Introductory activities B9 Presentation 10
Workbook A9 Reading with justification. 10
Workshop A10 B11 Group activities. 10
 
Assessment comments

Sources of information
Basic

Arnheim, R. (1990). Coming to Terms: the Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Brown, Terence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985. London: Fontana Press, 1985.

Cohen, K.(1979). Film and Fiction: the Dynamics of Exchange. Yale University Press: New Haven

Duff, A. (1989), Translation. Oxford: OUP.

Ingman, Heather. A History of the Irish Short Story. Cambridge: CUP, 2009

Jeffers, Jennifer. The Irish Novel at the End of the Century: Gender, Bodies, Power. London: Palgrave, 2002.

Kenneally, Michael, ed. Irish Literature and Culture: Irish Literary Studies 35. Gerrard´s Cross: Colin Smythe, 1992.

Kearney, Richard. Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1997.

MacCarthy, Anne. Identities in Irish Literature. Netbiblo, 2004.

McDougal, S. (1985). Made into Movies: From Literature to Film. Holt Rinehart and Winston: New York.

Muldoon, P. (ed.). The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry.

Peach, Linden. The Contemporary Irish Novel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Smyth, Gerry. The Novel and the Nation: Studies in the New Irish Fiction. London: Pluto Press, 1997.

Storey, Michael. Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction. Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004

Vance, Norman. Irish Literature: A Social History Tradition, Identity and Difference. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Welch, Robert (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
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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.