IDENTIFYING DATA 2015_16
Subject (*) 20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE Code 12142021
Study programme
English Studies (2001)
 Cycle 2nd
Descriptors Credits Theory credits Practical credits Type Year Period
6 4.5 1.5 Core Fifth 2Q
Language
Anglès
Department Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Coordinator
STYLE ., JOHN GLENMORE
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Lecturers
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General description and relevant information The course is designed to give a general outline of some of the main authors, currents and movements in Literature written in English in the British Isles during the twentieth century. Given the time restrictions it will attempt to produce a broad picture, while entering into more depth by studying certain key figures. The period spans from the Edwardians, heavily influenced by Victorian culture, through the iconoclasm of Modernism and cultural production influenced by 1930s Socialism, to the explosion of Popular culture in the 1960s and the reassessment of cultural meaning in the Postmodernism of the 1980 and 1990s. By the end of the course, students should be able to recognise a 20th century piece of literary or theoretical writing, and to place it within its context on the basis of its cardinal ideas and assumptions.
In this subject you only have the right to make the exam, because the degree you are studying is going to be extinguished. You have to take a look the timetable of the subject to know the exam's date. If you need an extraordinary exam session, you have to enrol for this, presenting an application to the secretariat of your campus or faculty.

Continguts
Topic Sub-topic
Overview of the course, its structure and content
Introduction to fiction of the period: James Joyce 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners'
Modernist Fiction Virginia Woolf: 'Mrs Dalloway' and extracts from other writings.
Introduction to poetry of the period: The Turn of the Century – the Edwardian period The Poetry of Thomas Hardy
Poetry of World War One The Poetry of W. Owen
Modernist Poetry Essays and Poetry of T.S.Eliot. 'Tradition and Individual Talent' and 'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', and its influence on the Thirties generation;: W.H Auden
The Fifties The Poetry of Philip Larkin
The Sixties The Plays of Joe Orton: 'Loot'
Poetry of the Postmodern period 'The New Poetry' - how 'new' is it?
Poetry by Tom Leonard, Tony Harrison, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah, David Constantine, Paul Farley etc
Postmodern Fiction I Jeanette Winterson: 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'
Postmodern Fiction II Short stories by Angela Carter, Penelope Lively, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, etc

Atenció personalitzada
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Avaluació
 
Other comments and second exam session

The exam will test their knowledge of the texts and authors studied during the course. The exam grade will be the course mark, irrespective of marks gained for elements of the CA.

Fonts d'informació
Basic James Joyce, Dubliners, Penguin Modern Classics, 2000
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Penguin Modern Classics, 2000
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Vintage, 1991

IMPORTANT

In buying Dubliners, Mrs Dalloway, the student is strongly advised to buy the edition indicated, and be careful not to confuse it with the Penguin Popular Classics Edition, which is cheaper but provides no notes, and no introduction.

In buying Oranges are not the Only Fruit, the student is also strongly advised to buy the edition indicated, and be careful not to confuse it with the hardcover Vintage Classics 25th Anniversary edition.

The tutor will also provide a comprehensive course anthology of the other texts required for this course, available through Moodle.
Complementary Boris Ford, Pelican Guide to English Literature, Penguin, 1982
David Trotter, The English Novel in History, 1895-1920, Routledge, 1993
R P Draper, Introduction to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Macmillan, 1999
Steven Connor, The English Novel in History, 1920-1970, Routledge, 1996
Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Oxford U.P., 2004
Paul Childs, Twentieh century in Poety- a Critical Survey, Routledge, 1999

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