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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| English Literature (20th and 21st Centuries) |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | English Literature (20th and 21st Centuries) | Code | 613G03040 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Theoretical programme and Reading proposals | 1 -. Transition to XX century 2 - Modernism as a literary movement. Poetry and novel. T. S. Eliot. James Joyce, etc.. . 3 - Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group . 4 - Contemporary English Literature before 1945: poetry, plays, novels 5 -. Contemporary English literature after 1945. REQUIRED READINGS POETRY: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) (Full text) A choice of poems by W. B. Yeats, Rupert Brook, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, P. Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and others, will be provided by the teacher. NOVEL: James Joyce, Ulysses (first chapter) (1922) Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (full reading) (1927) THEATRE: (Full text. The student must select ONE play of the following list) Harold Pinter, The Caretaker (1960) Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot CONTEMPORARY NOVELS (TO BE ANALYSED IN SMALL GROUP SESSIONS) Novels (The student must select ONE of the following list) William Golding: The Lord of the Flies Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day John B Aldous Huxley: Brave New World. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook. Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot. Zadie Smith: White Teeth. Hanif Kureshei: The Buddha of Suburbia. |
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