2014_15
Guia docent 
Facultat de Lletres
A A 
català 
Grau d'Anglès (2009)
 Assignatures
  INTRODUCCIÓ A LA LITERATURA ANGLESA
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
1. The Old English and Middle English period a. Anglo-Saxon literature:
i. prose: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bede' History
ii. poetry: the Elegies, and Epic - Beowulf
b. Medieval literature:
i. in prose allegories of Courtly Love and poetry.
ii. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
iii. Mystery and Morality plays
2. The Early Modern period a. Elizabethan sonnets, Spenser & Shakespeare
b. Shakespeare's drama.
c. Metaphysical poetry: Donne, Herbert, Marvell
d. Poetry and prose of the English Revolution: Milton
3. The Age of Enlightenment a. Philosophical poetry of Alexander Pope
b. Political satire: Swift's 'Modest Proposal'
c. The Birth of the Novel: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding and Sterne
d. Jane Austen and the Romantic novel