Identifying Data 2018/19
Subject (*) Literatura Inglesa 2 Code 613G03017
Study programme
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 2nd four-month period
 Second Obligatory 6
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Letras
Coordinador
Clark Mitchell, David Mitchell
 E-mail
david.clark@udc.es
Lecturers
Alonso Giraldez, Jose Miguel
Clark Mitchell, David Mitchell
 E-mail
miguel.giraldez@udc.es
david.clark@udc.es
Web
General description Estudo panoràmico da literatura inglesa dos seculos XVIII, XIX, XX e XXI.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
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
To understand aspects of the evolution of English literature. A1
A2
A7
A8
A16
A17
 B5
B7
B8
To be able to recognise and analyse the ideological contens of texts. A1
A2
A7
A8
A16
 B1
B5
B7
B8
To understand the differing aspects of British society and culture. A2
 B1
To learn and apply techniques of literary criticism. A1
A2
A7
A8
 B1
B5
B7
B8

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. The novel in the XVIIIth century. 1.1. Introduction
1.2. Swift Gulliver's Travels
.
2. Romanticism 2.1 Introduction
2.2 Poetry: Wordsworth and Keats
2.3 Novel: Frankenstein Mary Shelley
The XIXth century. 3.1 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
3.2 Dickens "The Signal Man"
3.4 Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Supervised projects A2 A1 0 30 30
Guest lecture / keynote speech A7 A8 10 10 20
Directed discussion A16 A17 18 18 36
Seminar A1 A2 10 5 15
Workbook B1 B5 B7 B8 0 45 45
 
Personalized attention 4 0 4
 
(*)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.
Workbook Reading of texts supplied (fragments or complete works).

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Supervised projects
Description
Oral and written, individual and group work based on texts and topics from this course.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Supervised projects A2 A1 Diverse works for assessment.The teacher may require students to defend their written work in an oral test.
 30
Guest lecture / keynote speech A7 A8 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.
 50
Seminar A1 A2 Participation in work carried out in seminars. 5
Directed discussion A16 A17 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 B1 B5 B7 B8 Control of readings. 5
 
Assessment comments

In the July evaluation students will present an essay on the texts studied (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 contact 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 supervised projects.

Students who have been granted exemption, as specified in the university regulations, will be assessed according to the criteria applied in July opportunity. Students sitting the December exam final exam brought forward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for July opportunity.

Essays may be tested through Turnitin in order to detect
wrong citations, plagiarism or any other type of fraud. Should this occur, the
rules for plagiarism will be applied. (Normas de
avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos estudos de grao e
mestrado universitario). Turnitin recognises papers previously turned in by
other people (or the student him/herself) at this university or other
universities, as well as other material found on Internet. 

Essays may be tested through Turnitin in order to detect wrong citations, plagiarism or any other type of
fraud. Should this occur, the rules for plagiarism will be applied. (Normas de avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos
estudos de grao e mestrado universitario). Turnitin recognises papers
previously turned in by other people (or the student him/herself) at this university
or other universities, as well as other material found on Internet. 

Sources of information
Basic 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. & 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 & 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 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


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus
Introdución aos Estudos Literarios/613G03005
Literatura Inglesa 1/613G03010

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.