Guia docente 2024_25 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contenidos

Tema	Subtema
UNIT 1. THE ORIGINS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLISH	1.1. The Old English literary culture: heroism and Christianity 1.2. Orality and writing in Anglo-Saxon England: verse and prose 1.3. From epic to romance: the Arthurian Matter 1.4. Ricardian poetry: Geoffrey Chaucer 1.5. The beginning of drama: mystery and morality plays
UNIT 2. THE RENAISSANCE	2.1. Humanist culture and religious Reformation 2.2. Lyrical modernity: English poetry from Petrarchanism to the Metaphysical poets 2.3. Renaissance drama: genres, texts and performance. William Shakespeare
UNIT 3. THE LONG 18th-CENTURY: RESTORATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT	3.1. The Restoration and the intellectual origins of Enlightenment: science, philosophy, politics and aesthetics 3.2. The origins of the English novel
UNIT 4: FROM ROMANTICISM TO REALISM	4.1. Theoretical bases of Romanticism 4.2. Romantic poetry and fiction. Jane Austen 4.3. Literature and society in the Victorian period: Realism and Naturalism
UNIT 5. MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNITY: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE	5.1. Historical context and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries 5.2. Modernist poetry and fiction 5.3. Beyond realism: narrative experimentation 5.4. Multicultural Britain today
	N.B. En cada unidad del temario se analizará una selección de textos literarios de lectura obligatoria que se especificarán al inicio del curso.