Introducción a los Textos Literarios en Lengua Inglesa.

Room:A200

Class Times: Monday and Tuesday, 3pm-5pm

Tutorial Times: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10:30-13:30 (A-318.3)

Fabio L. Vericat ()

Objectives:

This course offers an overview of the history of English literature, from the Medieval period to 20th-century Modernism. It hopes to introduce the student to the question of genre and gender, to an understanding of the nature of the literary text. The central question of this course is: when and why is a text literary?

Coursework:

The student will be required to complete a close reading exercise (amounting to 40% of the total mark each) plus a final exam.

Programme:

  1. What is a Literary Text? Or the Thin Red Line Between Prose and Verse.

Introduction

Samuel Johnson, ‘Blank Verse and Style’ (1779-81)

T.S. Eliot, ‘Reflections of VersLibre’ (1917) ‘Milton I’ (1836)

  1. Literary Authority the Place of Poetics.

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ (end 14th-century)

  1. Literary Democracy and the Crisis of Literature.

Alexander Pope, ‘The Rape of the Lock’ (1713) & ‘An Essay on Criticism’ (1711)

Richard Sheridan, The Critic (1779)

  1. Romance, Realism the Persistence of the Imagination.

Charles Dickens, ‘At Newgate Prison’ in Sketches by Boz (1836)

R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde(1886) & ‘A Humble Remonstrance’ (1884)

  1. Voice & the Rise of Human Consciousness.

Susan Glaspell, Trifles (1916)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1922)

Reference:

Abrams, M. H., A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005

Booth, Wayne C., The Rhetoric of Fiction, London: Penguin, 1983

Carter, Ronald & Walter Nash, Seeing Through Language. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990

Clayton, John J., The Heath Introduction to Fiction. Lexington: DC Heath, 1992

Furniss, Tom & Michael Bath, Reading Poetry: An Introduction. London: Prentice Hall, 1996

Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin, 1992

McRae, John & Urszula Clark, “Stylistics,” The Handbook of Applied Linguistics, Davies, Alan and Catherine Elder (eds), Blackwell Publishing, 2005

Minnis, A.J. & A.B. Scott ed. Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism: The Commentary Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988

Stockwell, Peter, “Language and Literature: Stylistics,” The Handbook of EnglishLinguistics, Arts, Bas and April McMahon (eds), Blackwell Publishing, 2006

Thornborrow, J. & Wareing, S. Patterns in Language: an Introduction to Language and Literary Style. London: Routledge, 1998

Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel, London: Penguin, 1983

WEEK 1 (16-17 February)

Samuel Johnson, ‘Blank Verse and Style’ (1779-81)

T.S. Eliot, ‘Reflections of VersLibre’ (1917) & ‘Milton I’ (1836)

WEEK 2 (23-24 February)

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’

WEEK 3 (2-3 March)

Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’

WEEK 4 (9-10 March)

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

WEEK 5 (16-17 March)

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

WEEK 6 (23-24 March)

Richard Sheridan, The Critic

EASTER HOLIDAYS

WEEK 7 (7 April)

Charles Dickens, ‘At Newgate Prison’ in Sketches by Boz

WEEK 8 (13-14 April)

Charles Dickens, ‘At Newgate Prison’ in Sketches by Boz

WEEK 9 (20-21 April)

R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

WEEK 10 (27-28 April)

R.L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

WEEK 11 (San Isidoro -5 May)

Susan Glaspell, Trifles (1916)

WEEK 12 (11-12Mayo)Coursework Deadline

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway –1922

WEEK 13 (18-19 May)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway –1922