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Grao en Galego e Portugués: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  Literatura Inglesa 1
   Contents
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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