2016_17
Guia docent 
Facultat de Lletres
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català 
Grau d'Anglès (2009)
 Assignatures
  LITERATURA
   Continguts
Tema Subtema

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.