ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Humanities
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Alumnado Repetidor)
We will deal with the Contemporary literature of the British Isles, United Satates and other countries. Focus on textual analysis from works by canonical authors.
0. Introduction: Historic and social context
1. Britain and Ireland. Contemporary Theatre. Beckett. Waiting for Godot
2. Britain and Ireland. Novel. Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
3. United States. Southern Literature. A. Walker The Color Purple.
4. International Literature. K. Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day.
5. Poetry. Whitman, Dickinson, TS Eliot, Yeats, Walcott.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. La verdad de las mentiras. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2002.
Álvarez Amorós, José Antonio (ed). Historia crítica de la novela inglesa. Salamanca: Ediciones Colegio de España, 1998.
Burgess, Anthony. Historia de la literatura inglesa. Madrid, 1981.
Pérez Gállego, Cándido, ed. Historia de la literatura inglesa. Madrid, 1984. 2 vols.
www.sparknotes.com Summaries and critical analyses of some works in the syllabus.
- Comunicative ability to express ideas and social exchange
- Ability for critical analysis of artistic works from different periods and styles.
- Ability to obtain documents for cultural communication.
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This module has zero contact hours this year. Please, contact your professor to plan ahead.
Final exam 100%
Students should devote an extra 20 hours for bibliographical reference and revision.
The main emphasis should be put on reading prescribed works. Reference and bibibliographical consultation is also advised. This module has zero contact hours this year. Please, contact your professor to plan ahead.
Jesus Varela Zapata
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 982824715
- varela.zapata [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| 01.24.2023 16:00-18:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 13 |
| 06.19.2023 18:00-20:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 13 |