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Ingeles Filologia Lizentziatura 2009 10 PDF
Ingeles Filologia Lizentziatura 2009 10 PDF
Ingeles Filologia Lizentziatura 2009 10 PDF
FACULTAD DE LETRAS
The blocks of contents will be implemented through different types of exercises and
communicative activities in order to consolídate and expand particular areas of
grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Training in advanced strategies for the
development of reading, listening and writing will be given, and learner´s training and
autonomous learning will be promoted.
Complementary activities:
Assessment:
Final exam of a practical, skills-oriented nature. It will consist of the following papers:
1. Reading Comprehension.
2. Use of English.
3. Listening Comprehension.
4. Writing
Complementary activities:
1.- Non compulsory essay: “The role of the governess in 19th century British society”
2.- Analysis of Sense and Sensibility.- Compulsory for students.
3.- Viewing of the movies Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility.
Basic bibliography:
LASCELLES, Mary, Jane Austen and Her Art, Oxford University Press, 1974.
MCMASTER, Juliet, Jane Austen the novelist. Essays Past and Present. McMillan, 1995
McMASTER, Juliet, Jane Austen’s Business. Her World and Her Profession. McMillan,
1995.
TODD, Janet, (ed.). Jane Austen in context. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2005.
STOKES, Myra. The language of Jane Austen : a study of some aspects of her
vocabulary. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1991
Assessment:
Class participation plus a written exam with discursive questions.
The readings consist of key theoretical/critical essays that trace the relationship between
modernism, postmodernism, and their “after-math.” We shall read a number of literary
works that dramatize the postmodern in textual demonstrations and hyper-self-reflective
narratives. Diverse literary critical approaches will be deployed and compared covering
issues such as: metafiction, historiographical metafiction, the erotics of reading, resistance
to interpretation, etc. The list of compulsory readings in which these items will be analyzed
will be published on the board outside my office, and a copy left in the photocopy room
downstairs.
This course not only involves the development both of sophisticated reading skills and of
an ability to place literary texts in their wider intellectual and historical contexts, it also
requires students to consider the critical processes by which they analyse and judge,
placing a special emphasis on comparative and contrastive practices. It will help develop
the ability to read with discrimination; to select and analyse appropriate examples; to
weigh evidence; to investigate, analyse, and assess competing historical and critical
viewpoints so that students become independent learners and thinkers.
Complementary activities: Some films will be used to illustrate certain issues. Several
handouts to prepare and follow analyses will be given. Essay and exam instructions,
together with a calendar of discussions will be provided at the beginning of the course as
well. The syllabus and a calendar with the classes schedule will be left in the photocopy
room together with the rest of the material needed to follow the classes. All information will
appear in MOODLE.
Basic bibliography: Literary - V. Nabokov LOLITA (1955); T. Pynchon THE CRYING
OF LOT 49 (1966); N. Mailer THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT: HISTORY AS A NOVEL
(1968); M.H. Kingston THE WOMAN WARRIOR (1972); L. Erdrich LOVE MEDICINE
(1984); T. Morrison BELOVED (1987).
A glossary of critical terms will be provided for students to use and complete.
Assessment: Continuous assessment of active class participation during debates and
handling assignments (20%), plus essay (40%) and exam (40%). If students miss a class,
they will write a short (2-3 pp.) reaction paper in response to the literary work(s) to be
discussed in that class meeting and hand it in to the instructor the next week.