| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009) |
 Subjects |
| INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2015_16 |
| Subject | INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | Code | 12274121 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | Third | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. The Old English and Middle English period | a. Anglo-Saxon literature: i. prose: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bede' History ii. poetry: the Elegies, and Epic - Beowulf b. Medieval literature: i. in prose allegories of Courtly Love and poetry. ii. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. iii. Mystery and Morality plays |
| 2. The Early Modern period | a. Elizabethan sonnets, Spenser & Shakespeare b. Shakespeare's drama. c. Metaphysical poetry: Donne, Herbert, Marvell d. Poetry and prose of the English Revolution: Milton |
| 3. The Age of Enlightenment | a. Philosophical poetry of Alexander Pope b. Political satire: Swift's 'Modest Proposal' c. The Birth of the Novel: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding and Sterne d. Jane Austen and the Romantic novel |
