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Grau d'Anglès (2009)
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  ANÀLISI DE TEXTOS ANGLESOS I
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Tema Subtema

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE:
FICTION
-Literature in a global world
-Critical reading and thinking
-Concepts: author, work, reader, narrator(s), characters, plot, setting, point of view, context, genres and subgenres, time, structure.

ANALYSIS OF EXTRACTS FROM:
Gulliver's Travels -Position of narration determines point of view.
-'I' & 'the other'. Why travel writing in the 18th century.
-Travelling nowadays and how we perceive other cultures.
Hard Times -The context of the industrial revolution. Facts & Fancy. Finding similarities and differences with our contemporary times of recession.
-Jane Eyre -Images & metaphors. Autobiographical narration. Realism.
-The Mill on the Floss -George Eliot: Writing with a pseudonym? Women's writing.

-To the Lighthouse
-Major characteristics of modernism: the deconstruction of conventional literary patterns: time, structure, narrator. Emphasis on 'how', and not on 'what' is narrated.
ANALYSIS OF SHORT STORIES:
"Odour of Chrysanthemums" Images and symbols.
"Evelyne" -Gender issues.
-Time of narration.

-"The Quilt"
-Beauty between the lines.
-Women in a Muslim world. Sexuality.

ANALYSIS OF A NOVEL:
-The God of Small Things
(Booker Prize in 1997)
Cultural context: India
The Content: Analysis of issues dealing with women, marriage, caste, love, tradition and colonial and postcolonial influences.

The Form: a (post)modernist structure; a non-linear narration; literary resources (similes, alliteration, paradoxes, metaphors, intertextuality, hyperbaton etc.).