Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009) |
Subjects |
LITERATURE |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2016_17 |
Subject | LITERATURE | Code | 12274001 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
12 | Basic Course | First | AN |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
Introduction to Romanticism. |
Romanticism challenged the Enlightenment ideals of reason, order and balance and privileged the imagination, freedom of spirit and subjective experience. |
The Romantics and "A language for the people". | Wordsworth & Coleridge. Gendering Nature and Culture. Blake "A turbulent visionary". |
The Sublime, the Gothic, the Supernatural. | Symbolisim of the Gothic. Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci". Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus". |
Science and the limits of knowledge. Theories of discrimination. | Inventions. Categorisations. Definitions of madness. |
Nation and Empire. | Colonisers and the colonised. Rider Haggard "She". Degeneration and Atavism. |
Aestheticism: Literature & Art. | Oscar Wilde and Beardsley. The Femme Fatale. |