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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 | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| 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" (De la 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 30s to the present. 6. - Postwar to the 70s: The theatre of the absurd, the "Angry" generation, popular music. The generation post-Windrush and multicultaralism. 7.- End of century and 21st century COMPULSORY READING Poetry: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) ("The Burial of the Dead") Anthology of poetry Novel: James Joyce, Ulysses (first chapter) One of the following novels: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Neil M. Gunn Highland River George Orwell, 1984 Theatre (two of the following works): Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter, The Caretaker Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Plough Dead Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey John Osborne Look Back in Anger After the Windrush Generation: Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other (2019), novel 8fragment). Linton Kwesi Johnson, poems. Poetry: Selection of poems from the 30s to the present: 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 Gail Honeyman: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Iain Banks The Wasp Factory Anthony J. Quinn Murder Memoir Murder Ian McEwan, Atonement Sally Rooney Conversations with Friends John Banville, The Singularities 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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