Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2013) |
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Literary Discourse and Society in the English-Speaking Countries |
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Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Literary Discourse and Society in the English-Speaking Countries | Code | 613505004 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Obligatoria | 3 | ||||||||||
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1. Tuesday, October 31st – Introduction: “Narratives of the Body” | • Chuck Palahniuk: “Guts” • Coco Fusco: Only Skin Deep. Changing Visions of the American Self • Sean Baker: Tangerine • Chuck Palahniuk: Invisible Monsters (Ch. 1-3) |
2. Wednesday, November 8th – “Narratives of Space” | • Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Episode One, in Part I: “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World” • Fredric Jameson: The Cultures of Globalization (3-21: “Beyond Eurocentrism”) • Jessica Abel: La Perdida (3-61) • Luhrmann, Baz. The Get Down. Episode 11 “Only from Exile Can We Come Home” (TBD). |
3. Tuesday, November 14th – “Discourses of Gender” | • Kathy Acker: Great Expectations (5-36) • Julia Kristeva: Powers of Horror (1-31) • John Cameron Mitchell: Shortbus (subject to change) • Judith Butler: Bodies that Matter (“Critically Queer” and/or “Gender is Burning”) |
4. Thursday, November 16th – “Discourses of Violence” | • Donna Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto • David Cronenberg: Crash • Hannah Arendt: On Violence (selection) • Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Dangerous Border-Crossers (22-47) |
5. Tuesday, November 21st – “Pre-Trauma Dystopias” | • Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium 1-51 • Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker and/or Jonathan Nolan: Westworld • Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation (selection) • Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake (Chapters 1 & 2) |
6. Thursday, November 23rd – “Heterotopic Discourses and the ‘Non City’” | • Charles Bukowski: Tales of Ordinary Madness (selection) • Mike Davis: City of Quartz (19-62) • David Lynch: Lost Highway • David Harvey: Rebel Cities (3-25) |
7. Wednesday, November 29th – “Immersion Narratives and the Terrain Vague” | • Ken Levine. Bioshock Trilogy • Bruce Straley. The Last of Us • Raoul Barbet. Life Is Strange • Patrice Désilets. Assassin’s Creed • Mark J. P. Wolf. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies (selection) |
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