In this subject, what is evaluated is the student´s literary competence at analysing texts using various literary perspectives. A general knowledge of the literary schools is also valued, but to a lesser degree.

The final mark must be 5 or more to pass . Also 2 out of 5 in the exam, and 2 out of 5 in the continuous evaluation are required.

Those students that do not do commentaries in class, essays etc, have no continuous evaluation marks, so they will have to recover at least two out of 5 points in the second opportunity examination. They may obtain 5 out of 5 in the first opportunity exam (not easy to do), but they would not pass the subject yet.

English is the only language used in class and exams. Mistakes must be avoided. Plagiarism is also forbidden. Borrowing ideas from the teacher and books is understandable, but students must try to do their own research. Their input is essential.

When a student for whatever justified reason (illness, etc) cannot do the continuous evaluation pratices he or she must tell the teacher in advance, otherwise he or she will have to wait for the second opportunity evaluation to make up for such parts.

Those
students who attend and participate in the continuous assessment activities
will be eventually considered "No Presentados" (absent from
examination) only if they have done less than 25% of the required activities.

Those students that have been given a dispensation must tell the teacher in advance, during the first two weeks of the course.

In July the second opportunity evaluation takes place. Those students that have not done or passed the continuous evaluation parts will be given the chance to do so by doing the essays or commentaries necessary. A second 5 point exam is also done at that time for those that failed it earlier or did not take it. That is, the second (July) opportunity will consist of a 50% final exam and 50% activities repeating or replacing the continuous assessment work. Such activities will be specified once the marks for the first opportunity have been published.

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
To know and apply the methods and techniques of linguistic and literary analysis	A1 A11 A15
Learn to analyse and comment on literary and nonliterary discourse using literary analysis techniques properly.	A1 A2 A3 A15 A16
Learn linguistic and literary theory tendencies.	A1 A2 A3 A10 A15
Learn to evaluate critically the style of a text and question issues.	A1 A2 A3 A10	B8 B9 B10
Learn literary theory both diachronically and synchronically.	A1 A2 A10 A11 A14
Learn more about English Literature.	A16
Learn to use literary competence skills with texts.		B1
Be more critical and aware concerning discourse.		B7
Value diversity		B8
Improve selfteaching skills.		B3
Learn to relate sources of different kinds		B5
Be aware of the importance of research		B9
Be aware of the importance of behaving fairly and correctly.		B10
Improve Spoken and Written English skills	A6		C2
use of information assets with this subject.			C3

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Concepts	1.1 What is literature? And English literature? 1.2 What is Literary Theory? What is it for?1.3 Writers and critics: who does the text belong to? 1.4 Validation: the literary canon. 1.5 Mediation agents (audiences, publicity, translators, critics, scholars, etc). 1.6 Centre and periphery: standards y alternatives. 1.7 A brief view of the history of literary theory: from Matthew Arnold, the Cambridge critics and the New Critics up to ecocriticism.
2. Text, author and reader	2.1 "Meaning" and "significance" (Hirsch) 2.2 Objectivity: authorial intention and reception. Is the author dead? 2.3 Open / closed (Eco). 2.4 Related sources: I. A Richards, Hirsch, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, W. Iser, Wayne C. Booth, Estructuralismo, Stanley Fish.
3. The authorial persona	3.1 Implied authors and narrators. A study of the processes of communication. Tellability. Identity. Narrators and narratees. Voice and point of view. 3.2 Poetic voice and alter ego. 3.3 Playwrights and their characters (the problem of satire in the theatre) 3.4 Drama and the theatre: performance texts. 3. 5 Sources: E. M. Forster and E. Muir on the novel; Wayne C. Booth and the Chicago School; Speech Act theories (Grice and M- L- Pratt in particular); Chatman's and Genette's studies on narratology.
4. Form and content. The literary language	4.1 Does a literary language exist? 4.2 Does form mean? Is literature useful? Fiction/Non fiction. 4.3 Semiotics: Saussure and Peirce. 4.4 Metaphor, metonymy: a structuralist explanation of modernism and realism. 4.5 Phonocentrism: from Structuralism to Poststructuralism. Text as communication or pleasure. 4.6 Sources: Liberal humanists, Formalists and Marxists, Fowler, Lodge, Deconstruction, Barthes.
5. Text, history, culture and nature	5.1 Historiography and the historical novel. 5.2 The universal versus the contextual. 5.3 The concepts of culture and ideology. 5.4 Gender: theories and evolution. Gay studies. 5.6 Power and subversion: Foucault and the discursive surveillance of the State. Historicism and Cultural Materialism. 5.7 National/linguistic identity. The "other": postcolonialism versus Eurocentrism. 5.8 Nature: ecocriticism. 5.9 Hayden White, Eagleton, Dollimore, Bakhtin, Said.
6. Literary analysis from different perspectives.	6.1 Reading Aphra Behn's The Rover 6.3 Reading Conrad's Heart of Dakness

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A1 A2 A3 A10 A14 A16 B8	12	11	23
Workbook	A1 A2 A3 A10 A14 A16 B1 B3 B5 B7 B8 B9 B10	0	35	35
Supervised projects	A1 A2 A3 A10 A14 A15 A16 B1 B3 B7 B8 B10 C2 C3	1	11	12
Oral presentation	A1 A2 A10 A16 B8 B9 C2	4	10	14
Mixed objective/subjective test	A1 A2 A3 A6 A10 A11	0	4	4
Document analysis	A1 A2 A3 A10 B5 B7 B8	10	7	17
Directed discussion	A1 A2 A3 A10 B7 B9 B10 C2 C3	2.5	3	5.5

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	Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech	The teacher will introduce basic concepts, and data about Schools and authors.
Workbook	Reading primary sources through photocopies, website pages and books from the library. As far as the two literary texts (Behn e Conrad), there exist copies in the library.
Supervised projects	An academic essay in between 5 and 7 pages long (double spaced, works cited list included). The subjects will be indicated during the course.
Oral presentation	A a brief oral presentation done by one-three students concerning a) the two main literary texts, b) a literary theory question or source
Mixed objective/subjective test	An evaluatory test that may include two or three different kinds of exam such as a multiple choice test, a textual commentary and a brief essay on one of the two literary texts.
Document analysis	The students work with sources of different kinds.
Directed discussion	Debate in class. Always after an oral presentation. Often done when analysing texts in class.

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Document analysis	A1 A2 A3 A10 B5 B7 B8	Commentaries done in class (1.5 points)	15
Supervised projects	A1 A2 A3 A10 A14 A15 A16 B1 B3 B7 B8 B10 C2 C3	An essay done individually. It must be original and personal, and any borrowings quoted correctly. 2 points	20
Mixed objective/subjective test	A1 A2 A3 A6 A10 A11	Evaluation at the end of the course. 50 per cent (5 points). Students must obtain a minimum of two points in the exam to pass (and the average must be 5).	50
Oral presentation	A1 A2 A10 A16 B8 B9 C2	Oral presentation done alone or in a small group (2 or three people) 1.5 points.	15

Assessment comments
In this subject, what is evaluated is the student´s literary competence at analysing texts using various literary perspectives. A general knowledge of the literary schools is also valued, but to a lesser degree. The final mark must be 5 or more to pass . Also 2 out of 5 in the exam, and 2 out of 5 in the continuous evaluation are required. Those students that do not do commentaries in class, essays etc, have no continuous evaluation marks, so they will have to recover at least two out of 5 points in the second opportunity examination. They may obtain 5 out of 5 in the first opportunity exam (not easy to do), but they would not pass the subject yet. English is the only language used in class and exams. Mistakes must be avoided. Plagiarism is also forbidden. Borrowing ideas from the teacher and books is understandable, but students must try to do their own research. Their input is essential. When a student for whatever justified reason (illness, etc) cannot do the continuous evaluation pratices he or she must tell the teacher in advance, otherwise he or she will have to wait for the second opportunity evaluation to make up for such parts. Those students who attend and participate in the continuous assessment activities will be eventually considered "No Presentados" (absent from examination) only if they have done less than 25% of the required activities. Those students that have been given a dispensation must tell the teacher in advance, during the first two weeks of the course. In July the second opportunity evaluation takes place. Those students that have not done or passed the continuous evaluation parts will be given the chance to do so by doing the essays or commentaries necessary. A second 5 point exam is also done at that time for those that failed it earlier or did not take it. That is, the second (July) opportunity will consist of a 50% final exam and 50% activities repeating or replacing the continuous assessment work. Such activities will be specified once the marks for the first opportunity have been published.

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