| Continguts |
| Tema | Subtema |
| 1. The Anglo-Saxon period | - Historical background - Old English poetry: the Elegies, Beowulf, etc - Old English prose: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede's History. |
| 2. The Medieval period | - Historical background - Medieval Lyrics and Themes - Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, especially, The General Prologue, The Miller's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale. - Medieval Drama: Mystery plays and Morality plays. |
| 3. The Elizabethan period | - Shakespeare's sonnets and drama. - Studying Shakespeare's "Othello" |
| 4. The 17th Century | - Historical background - Metaphysical poetry - Milton's 'Paradise Lost' - Restoration Drama |
| 5. The Enlightenment period | - Enlightenment poetry and satire: Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and 'Essay on Man', Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'. - The Birth of the Novel: social and aesthetic developments giving rise to this new genre, exemplified by Defoe, Richardson, Fiedling and Sterne. |
| 6. The Romantic period | - Historical background to English Romanticism. - Romantic poetry: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron. - Romantic prose: Mary Shelley and Jane Austen. - 'Pride and Prejudice'. |
| Atenció personalitzada |
| Descripció |
| John and Cristina will be using your official URV e-mail address during the course, so it is essential that you check this regularly. Most course material will be uploaded using Moodle. Before you begin work on your independent research, please come and talk it over with us during office hours. We shall try and help you with the structure of your work and the theoretical aspects of it. |
| Avaluació |
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In the CA Tests, students must achieve at least a '3.0' (out of 10) in each test in order to pass the course on the basis of CA. In other words, a student who has less than a '3.0' in one of the CA tests will be obliged to take the complete Final Exam. Students must average a 5 or over for the CA work of each semester in order to pass the course on the basis of CA. While the course mark from CA will be taken as an average of the two halves of the course, each half of the course must be passed separately for that overall average to be applicable. Where one part of the course is failed, the student must take the Final Exam. If you do not attend classes regularly and consequently do not complete the Continuous Assessment programme satisfactorily, you will have to take the final exam. The final exam will consist of text commentaries, based on the set texts of the course 50%, and short questions to test your background knowledge of English literary history and the theory related to studies in this field 50%. In cases of results which are borderline, regular attendance (80%+) may be taken into consideration, at the tutors discretion. |
| Fonts d'informació |
| Bàsica |
William Shakespeare, Othello, New Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge Uni Press
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, World's Classics, 2004, Oxford
Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford history of English literature, , 2004, Oxford, Clarendon
, http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp, , |
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| Complementària |
Rogers, Pat, (ed.), An Outline of English Literature, , Oxford, Oxford UP, 1992
Barnard, Robert, A Short History of English Literature, 2nd, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994
Ford, Boris, et al.,, The New Pelican Guide to English, , London, Penguin, 1984
Various, The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland, , London, Routledge, 1997 |
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(*)La Guia docent és el document on es visualitza la proposta acadèmica de la URV. Aquest document és públic i no es pot modificar, llevat de casos excepcionals revisats per l'òrgan competent/ o degudament revisats d'acord amb la normativa vigent |
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