Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
English Studies (2001) |
Subjects |
20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE |
Continguts |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2015_16 |
Subject | 20TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE | Code | 12142021 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Theory credits | Practical credits | Type | Year | Period | ||
6 | 4.5 | 1.5 | Core | Fifth | 2Q |
Continguts | Atenció personalitzada | Avaluació |
Fonts d'informació |
Topic | Sub-topic |
Overview of the course, its structure and content | |
Introduction to fiction of the period: James Joyce | 'The Dead' from 'Dubliners' |
Modernist Fiction | Virginia Woolf: 'Mrs Dalloway' and extracts from other writings. |
Introduction to poetry of the period: The Turn of the Century – the Edwardian period | The Poetry of Thomas Hardy |
Poetry of World War One | The Poetry of W. Owen |
Modernist Poetry | Essays and Poetry of T.S.Eliot. 'Tradition and Individual Talent' and 'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', and its influence on the Thirties generation;: W.H Auden |
The Fifties | The Poetry of Philip Larkin |
The Sixties | The Plays of Joe Orton: 'Loot' |
Poetry of the Postmodern period | 'The New Poetry' - how 'new' is it? Poetry by Tom Leonard, Tony Harrison, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Benjamin Zephaniah, David Constantine, Paul Farley etc |
Postmodern Fiction I | Jeanette Winterson: 'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' |
Postmodern Fiction II | Short stories by Angela Carter, Penelope Lively, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, etc |