| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009) |
 Subjects |
| INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE |
 
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| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 | |||||||||||||||||
| Subject (*) | INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE | Code | 12274121 | |||||||||||||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||||||||||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | Exam timetables and dates | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Compulsory | Third | 1Q |
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| Modality and teaching language | See working groups | |||||||||||||||||
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| Department | English and German Studies |
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| Coordinator |
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john.style@urv.cat |
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| General description and relevant information |
In this
introductory course, students will read some influential works in English
literary history, and encounter debates about the function, power and reach of
literary texts. We will follow a chronological path from the Old English period (Anglo-Saxon) through to the early 19th century, in order to appreciate how literary writers, across the span of
this period, adopted and developed certain forms and features in order to serve
their own ideological and aesthetic purposes. We will closely read both traditional
and radical forms of each medium, to consider the different ways in which
literature can be pushed beyond our traditional notions of storytelling. The
class will be largely discussion based, with great emphasis placed on
participation and student preparedness. The course will develop the skills
essential to English literary studies, including a discipline-specific
vocabulary, and skills in literary and critical analysis and research. |
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| (*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation. | ||||||||||||||||||
