Programa

Programa de teoría

Theoretical contents

UNIT 1. WHAT IS LITERATURE?

1.1.What is theory?

1.2. What is English Literature?

1.3. English-Englishes

1.4. The Uses of Literature

1.5. Interpretation of Literary Texts

1.6. Readers and Meaning

UNIT 2. PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

2.1. Old English and Middle English Literature

2.2. Renaissance and Restoration

2.3. The rise of the novel (18th century).

2.4. The Romantic Age

UNIT 3. MAJOR GENRES IN TEXTUAL STUDIES

3.1. Poetry

3.2. Drama

3.3. Fiction

UNIT 4. READING LITERARY TEXTS: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS

4.1. Finding a theme

4.2. Looking at characters

4.3. Structure

4.4. Irony

UNIT 5. READING POETRY

5.1. Content and poetic voice

5.2. Tone and mood

5.3. Style and Imagery

5.4. Musicality: Line and Rhythm

5.5. Rhyme and Stanza Forms

UNIT 6. READING DRAMA

6.1. Structure of a play

6.2. Creating characters

6.3. Setting and Scenery

6.4. Dialogues and Soliloquies

6.5. Performance

UNIT 7. READING FICTION

7.1. Plot

7.2. Narrative perspective

7.3. Setting and atmosphere

7.4. Development of characters

UNIT 8. SCHOOLS OF CRITICISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY

8.1.Textual Approaches: Russian Formalism; New Criticism; Structuralism; Deconstruction

8.2. Author-oriented Approaches: Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism

8.3. Reader-oriented Approaches: Reader-response Criticism

8.4. Contextual Approaches: Marxism/Cultural Materialism; New Historicism; Gender Studies; Postcolonial Studies.

 Practical contents

1. Literary Research and Scholarly Method.

2. Reading literary texts. Practical considerations. Beowulf

3. Reading literary texts.  Major genres in textual studies. The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales.

4. Reading Poetry. Rhyme and Stanza Forms. The English Sonnet.

5. Reading Poetry. Content and Poetic Voice. Metaphysical Poetry.

6. Reading Poetry. Tone, Mood and Imagery. Romantic Poetry.

7. Reading Drama. Structure and Soliloquies. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe.

8. Reading Drama. Irony. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

9. Reading Drama.  Setting and Performance. The importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.

10. Reading Fiction. Finding a theme. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

11. Reading Fiction. Looking at Characters. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

12. Reading Fiction. Narrative perspective. Bleak House by Charles Dickens.