Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Literatura Inglesa 1 |
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Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Literatura Inglesa 1 | Code | 613G03010 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
First | FB | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. What is literature? What is English Literature. |
1.1. The “Canon” of English Literature. 1.2. Periodization. |
2. Introduction to the history of English literature previous to the 11th Century. |
2.1. Sociocultural context. 2.2. Oral literature and manuscripts. 2.3. Epic and elegiac poetry. 2.4. Prose and translations. Readings: - Excerpts from Beowulf - Excerpts from “The Dream of the Rood”. |
3. Medieval English Literature. | 3.1. Sociocultural context. 3.2. Authorship. 3.3. Cultural institutions. 3.4. Linguistic conflict. Readings: - A selection of Medieval Lyrics. |
4. Chaucer and his contemporaries. | 4.1. Gower and Gawain. 4.2. Geofrey Chaucer and his work. Readings: - Excerpts from the “Prologue" in The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer. |
5. English religious drama. | 5.1. The origins of English drama. 5.2. Medieval Mystery and Morality Plays. Readings: - Excerpts from Everyman. |
6. XIV and XV Century English lyrics. | 6.1. Medieval lyrics. 6.2. Courtly Love. 6.3. Medieval Romance. |
7. XVI Century Engish poetry. | 7.1. Introduction: Humanism, patronage and the court. 7.2. The English sonnet. 7.3. Wyatt and Surrey. 7.4. Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. Readings: - A selection of sonnets by Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. |
8. Elizabethan Theatre. | 8.1. Elizabethan Theatre: architecture, conventions and plays. 8.2. Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Readings: - William Shakespeare, Hamlet. |
9. Metaphysical Poetry. | 9.1. Metaphysical poets and "cavalier" poets. 9.2. John Donne and Andrew Marvell. Readings: - A selection of poems by John Donne and Andrew Marvell. |
10. XVII Century prose. | 10.1. Religious prose. 10.2. Autobiography and diaries. 10.3. Travel books. Readings: - Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys. |
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