Universidad de Jaén

1. Late Victorian

1.1 Fiction, drama and poetry of the 1890s

1.2 O. Wilde, GB Shaw.

2. 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, EM Forster 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.

3.1.4 Postmodernist fiction. John Fowles.

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. Hillary Mantel.

4.2. Poetry: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes.

4.3. Drama. Tom Stoppard, Arnold Wesker.

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

1. There will be one final class essay which will provide 50%-80% of the final grades. This essay will consist of: writing an essay (out of a choice of two), and commenting a number of excerpts from the plays read and discused in class. [Competences and Learning Outcomes: CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5; CE 12, CE23, CE25; CG 04, CG07//R07, R19, R20]
2. Students may be also be required to prepare a research paper (up to 30% of the total grades). The topic of this presentation will have to be previouslyapproved by the lecturer. [Competences and Learning Outcomes:CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5; CE 12, CE23, CE25; CG 04, CG07//R07, R19, R20]
3. Finally, attendance and participation in class discussion will provide the additional 20%; a minimum of 70% attendance will be required to be able to obtain this 20%.[Competences and Learning Outcomes: CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5; CE 12, CE23, CE25; CG 04, CG07//R07, R19, R20]