| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009) |
 Subjects |
| INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| 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 |
| The Old English/Anglo-Saxon period | Anglo-Saxon Elegies and Epic poetry, and riddles from the Exeter Book and prose excerpts from Bede's History. |
| The Medieval Period |
Medieval Romance - Sir Gawain and the Green Kniight Geoffrey Chaucer, excerpt from The Canterbury Tales. Medieval prose examples. |
| Early Modern Period / Renaissance | Elizabethan sonnets (Spenser etc) Shakespeare: Sonnets and drama, including a Shakespeare play, (to be announced) |
| 17th Century Literature | Metaphysical Poetry; Donne, Herbert, Marvell Milton: Excerpts from Paradise Lost |
| 18th Century: The Augustan Age - The Age of Enlightenment | Alexander Pope - Essay on Man Satire: Swift's Modest Proposal The Birth of the Novel: Behn, Defoe, and Richardson, Fielding and Sterne |
| The Early 19th Century Novel | Jane Austen, Reason vs. Romanticism |
