Descripción del Curso/Contents for the course Part I: The study of literature and narrative.
1. Defining terms: literature, fiction, narrative, novel, short story. Narratology: theory and technique of narrative
2. Critical approaches to literature: focusing on the work, on the author, on the historical context (social, cultural, ideological); psychoanalytical, archetypal, reader-oriented, feminist approaches.
3. Language and narrative. The stylistic / rhetorical analysis of fragments: exercise in explication.
Part II: Historical survey of English fiction.
4. Narrative prose before the 18th century: Malory, Nashe, Behn, Bunyan.
5. Rise and development of the novel in the 18th century: Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding
6. The late 18th century: the cult of sensibility, the Gothic mode. Smollett, Sterne.
7. Maturity of the novel in the early 19th century: Austen, Scott.
8. Early and mid Victorian novel: Dickens, Thackeray, Emily and Charlotte BrontÙ, G. Eliot.
9. Late Victorian novel: Hardy, naturalistic novel, Wilde, Kipling, Stevenson.
10. Early 20th century. Towards modernism: James, Conrad, Forster. The realist tradition: Bennett, Galsworthy, Wells.
11. Modernism: experiments to represent the unconscious. D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, V. Woolf.
12. The novel between 1930 - 1950: satire and political committment. Huxley, Waugh, Orwell; G. Greene.
13. Diveristy of modes between 1950 û 1970. Post-modernism in
