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To develop the student's ability to read English texts (general and literary) closely, paying particular attention to questions of form and content and how they interrelate.
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Students taking this course will be exposed to a variety of texts written in English. The discussion of poetry and drama will progressively introduce basic literary concepts such as the narrator/narrative voice, character, setting, plot, theme, irony and so forth.
Students must expect to participate actively in class providing interpretations and opinions which may enrich the discussion of the texts. Theoretical input will be based on the first half of the textbook "Ways of Reading" (see bibliography), which students
should buy; practical commentaries will be based on the photocopied course anthology.
Practicals:
Students' active participation in the discussion of texts is in effect the practical component of the course, and will be a feature of all classes. On occasion, students will be asked to express their opinions in writing about a specified text. A text prepared in advance will be the focus of each class: these texts may be the focus of short tests.
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There will be a final exam, in addition to occasional short tests. Students will be given a choice of texts, similar in length and character to those discussed in class, and will be asked to discuss it/them from a literary point of view. Regular class and attendance and active participation are requisites to pass the course.
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| Tema |
Subtema |
| Basic techniques and problem solving |
Asking questions
Using information sources
Analysiing units of structure |
| Dimensions of language variation |
Language and time
Language and place
Language and context: register
Language and gender
Language and society |
| Analysing poetic form |
Rhyme and sound patterning
Verse and metre
Parallelism
Deviation |
| Bàsica |
Martin Montgomery, Alan Durant, Sara Mills, and Nigel Fabb, Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature, Routledge, 2000
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A photocopiable anthology of reading materials by Jordi Lamarca Margalef. |
| Complementària |
C. Belsey, Critical Practice, Routledge, 2000
Carter and Simpson, Language, Discourse and Literature, Routledge, 1989
Using English, Robinson, P.C., Oxford, 1985
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