2013_14
Guia docent 
Facultat de Lletres
A A A 
català 
Filologia Anglesa (2001)
 Assignatures
  INTRODUCCIÓ A LA LITERATURA ANGLESA
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
1. The Anglo-Saxon period - Historical background
- Old English poetry: the Elegies, Beowulf, etc
- Old English prose: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede's History.
2. The Medieval period - Historical background
- Medieval Lyrics and Themes
- Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, especially, The General Prologue, The Miller's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale.
- Medieval Drama: Mystery plays and Morality plays.
3. The Elizabethan period - Shakespeare's sonnets and drama.
- Studying Shakespeare's "Othello"
4. The 17th Century - Historical background
- Metaphysical poetry
- Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
- Restoration Drama
5. 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.
6. 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'.