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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 | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| 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 | Syllabus and required reading: 1.- Poetry at the beginning of the century 20. Housman, Hardy, Kipling; "Georgian" (of wool Mare, Brooke etc). 2.- Poetry of the First World War. 3.- The modernism like literary movement: poetry and novel. T.S. Eliot. James Joyce, etc. 4.- The novel: Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Neil M. Gunn And George Orwell 5.- Poetry of the years 30 to the years 70. 6. - Postwar to the years 70: The theatre of the absurd, the generation "Angry", the popular music. The generation post-Windrush and the multicultaralismo. 7.- End of century and 21st century COMPULSORY READINGS THAT The STUDENTS HAVE TO HAVE PREPARED FOR The CLASSES WHEN it REQUEST It The PROFESSOR Poetry: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) (complete Text) Anthology of poetry (can collect in reprography) Novel: James Joyce, Ulysses (first chapter) One of the following novels: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover Neil M. Gunn Highland River George Orwell, 1984 Theatre (duas of the following works): Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter, The Caretaker Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Plough Dead Shelagh Delaney To Taste of Honey John Osborne Look Back in Anger After the Windrush Generation: Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other (2019), novel 8fragment). Linton Kwesi Johnso, poems. V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men, The Enigma of Arrival (fragments) Poetry: Escolmo of poems of the years 30 to the 70: Auden, Spender, Larkin, Smith, Paulin, Heaney, Duffy, Lochhead etc. Novel One of the following novels: Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, Monica Ali, Love Marriage Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing Iain Banks The Wasp Factory Tana French, The Secret Place Ian McEwan, Atonement Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends John Banville, Snow Popular culture: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Anthology letters songs of David Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, The Cure, Arlo Parks. |
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