Universidad de Jaén

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.

Students' Working hours: 150

First Term:

Number of hours: 150

Classroom teaching hours: 60

Students' personal working hours: 90

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

Students' personal participation in the classes and in the proposed activities will be appreciated. Percentage in the final mark: 20%

There will be a written exam at the end of the term with questions about the content in the Program. Percentage in the final mark:  50%

A Term Paper about one of the authors in the Program is compulsory. Percentage in the final mark: 30%