| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| English and German |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Theoretical lessons given in the classroom, obligatory reading of certain works and practical work carried out by the students individually and in groups, both in the classroom at home. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination - - |
| Bibliografia |
| Lecturas Obligatorias - Beowulf (modernized version by M. Alexander), Harmondsword, Penguin, 1985 (1973). - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (modernized version by B. Stone) Harmondsword, Penguin, 1984 (2nd edition 1974). - Chaucer, G., The Canterbury Tales (modernized version by N. Coghill, Harmondsword, Penguin, 1985 (revised ed. 1977). - Shakespeare, W., The Sonnets, New Penguin Shakespeare. - Milton, John (Houghton, R.E.C., ed. Lit.), Paradise Lost, Books IX and X, Oxford University Press, 1990. - Pope, Alexander (Tillotson, Geoffrey, ed. Lit.), The Rape of the Lock, London, Routledge, 1988. |
| Continguts |
| 1. Old English poetry and prose. Detailed analysis of Beowulf. 2. Middle English Literature. The Alliterative Revival. Close study of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 3. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales. 4. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century prose. Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas More and Thomas Hobbes. Samuel Pepys?s and John Evelyn?s Diaries. 5. Renaissance Lyrics. From Wyatt and Surrey to Sidney and Spenser. 6. William Shakespeare: The Sonnets. 7. The Tribe of Ben and the Cavalier Poets. 8. Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan. 9. John Milton. Paradise Lost. 10. John Dryden and Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock under study. 11. Early Eighteenth Century Poetry: James Thompson, Edward Young, William Collins, Thomas Gray. Late Eighteenth Century Poetry: Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe. 12. Eighteenth Century Prose. The Tatler and the Spectator. Samuel Johnson and Literary Criticism. Edward Gibbon and Historiography. SET TEXTS FOR STUDY - Beowulf (modernized version) - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (modernized version by B. Stone) - Chaucer, G., The Canterbury Tales (modernized version) -Shakespeare, W., The Sonnets, - Milton, John, Paradise Lost, Books ÍX and X, -Pope, Alexander, The Rape of the Lock |
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