Guía DocenteCurso Facultade de Filoloxía |
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019) |
Asignaturas |
Discurso literario e sociedade nos países de fala inglesa |
Contidos |
Datos Identificativos | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
Asignatura | Discurso literario e sociedade nos países de fala inglesa | Código | 613505103 | |||||||||||
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Descriptores | Ciclo | Período | Curso | Tipo | Créditos | |||||||||
Mestrado Oficial | 1º cuadrimestre |
Primeiro | Obrigatoria | 3 | ||||||||||
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Temas | Subtemas |
The course tackles the relations between literature and society, placing special emphasis on the political and socio-historical contexts. | Likewise, the more relevant ideological and inter-textual relations—and also the main aesthetic aspects—will be considered when analysing and/or discussing literary (con)texts of the English-speaking world. |
1. 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. “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”). Optional: • Jessica Abel: La Perdida (3-61). • Ryan Murphy: Pose (Episode 1). |
3. “Discourses of Abjection” | • Kathy Acker: Great Expectations (5-36) • Julia Kristeva: Powers of Horror (1-31) Optional: • Laura van der Berg: The Third Hotel • Judith Butler: Bodies that Matter (“Critically Queer” and/or “Gender is Burning”) |
4. “Discourses of Violence” | • Jack Halberstam: Countersexual Manifesto • Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X Optional: • Hannah Arendt: On Violence (selection) • Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Dangerous Border-Crossers (22-47) |
5. “Pre-Trauma Dystopias” | • Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium 1-51 • Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation (selection) Optional: • Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake (Chapters 1 & 2) • Slavoj Zizek: Welcome to the Desert of the Real |
6. “Heterotopic Discourses and the ‘Non City’” | • Charles Bukowski: Tales of Ordinary Madness (selection) • Mike Davis: City of Quartz (19-62) Optional: • David Lynch: Lost Highway • Edward Soja: Seeking Spatial Justice (13-30) |
7. “Immersion Narratives” | • Siri Hustvedt: The Blindfold (selection) • Lydia Davis: Can't and Won't (selection) Optional • Bruce Straley. The Last of Us • Mark J. P. Wolf. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies (selection) |
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