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Syllabus 2013-14 - 12212017 - English Literature from 1890 to Present Time (Literatura inglesa desde 1890 hasta nuestros días)

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DEGREE: Grado en Estudios ingleses
FACULTY: FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCES AND EDUCATION
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2013-14
COURSE: English Literature from 1890 to Present Time
SYLLABUS
1. COURSE BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: English Literature from 1890 to Present Time
CODE: 12212017 ACADEMIC YEAR: 2013-14
LANGUAGE: English LEVEL: 3
ECTS CREDITS: 6.0 YEAR: 3 SEMESTER: PC
2. LECTURER BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: MEDINA CASADO, CARMELO
DEPARTMENT: U115 - FILOLOGÍA INGLESA
FIELD OF STUDY: 345 - FILOLOGÍA INGLESA
OFFICE NO.: D2 - 229 E-MAIL: cmedina@ujaen.es P: 953212609
WEBSITE: http://www.ujaen.es/dep/filing/web_departamento/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2909-0359
LANGUAGE: English LEVEL: 3
3. CONTENT DESCRIPTION

1. Modernism.

1.1. Poetry:

1.1.1. T.S. Eliot.

1.2. Narrative:

1.2.1. D.H. Lawrence.

1.2.2. Virginia Woolf.

1.2.3. James Joyce.

2. Literature in/between the Two World Wars.

2.1. Poetry:

2.1.1. William B. Yeats.

2.1.2. First World War Poetry: Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen.

2.1.3. Poetry of the Thirties: The Oxford Group.

2.1.4. The Spanish Civil War in the English Poetry.

2.2. Tendencies in the novelists:

2.2.1.-Imperialism: Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.

2.2.2.-Pessimism: Thomas Hardy.

2.2.3.-Liberalism: H. G. Wells.

2.3. The New Drama:

2.3.1. Oscar Wilde.

2.3.2. The Influence of Ibsen: Bernard Shaw.

3. Literature since 1945 to 1980.

3.1. Narrative:

3.1.1. The Utopian Novel: Aldous Huxley and George Orwell.

3.1.2. Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene.

3.1.3. Women Novelists: Doris Lessing and Iris Murdoch.

3.2. Poetry:

3.2.1. Post-Romanticism: Dylan Thomas.

3.2.2. Philip Larkin.

3.2.3. Seamus Heaney.

3.3. Post-War Drama:

3.3.1. John Osborne.

3.3.2. Absurd Drama: Beckett and Harold Pinter.

4. British Literature since 1980 to the Present Day.

4.1. Narrative: Ian Mc Ewan and Antonia Byatt.

4.2. Poetry: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Simon Armitage.

4.3. National-Regional Poets and Novelists: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

4.5. Multicultural Writing:

4.5.1. Poetry: Fred D’Aguiar and Grace Nichols.

4.5.2. Narrative: K. Ishiguro and V.S. Naipaul.

4. COURSE DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Course description and teaching methodology [1]:

 

Lecture (Theory)

3

Hours per week

Lecture (Practice):

        1

Hours per week

Seminars:

      0/1

Hours per week

Homework:

      10

Hours per week

 

[1] Con indicación de la metodología específica para estudiantes extranjeros acogidos al programa PATIE.

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

5. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

Active classroom participation 20%

Written exam 50%

Term paper or essay 30%

6. BOOKLIST
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