2006_07
Guia docent 
Facultat de Lletres
A A 
català 
 
 
Filologia Anglesa (2001)
 Assignatures
  INTRODUCCIÓ A LA LITERATURA ANGLESA
   Programa
Tema Subtema
Anglo-Saxon period - Historical background
- Old English poetry: the Elegies, Beowulf, etc
- Old English prose: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede's History.
Medieval period - Historical background
- Medieval Lyrics and Themes
- Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, especially, The General Prologue, The Miller's Tale and The Reeve's Tale.
- Medieval Drama: Mystery plays and Morality plays.
Elizabethan period - Historical Background
- Shakespeare's sonnets and drama.
- 'Othello'
17th Century - Historical background
- Metaphysical poetry
- Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
- Restoration Drama
The Enlightenment period - Enlightenment poetry and satire: Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and 'Essay on Man', Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'.
- The Birth of the Novel: social and aesthetic developments giving rise to this new genre, exemplified by Defoe, Richardson, Fiedling and Sterne.
The Romantic period - Historical background to English Romanticism.
- Romantic poetry: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron.
- Romantic prose: Mary Shelley and Jane Austen.
- 'Pride and Prejudice'.