Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OT | 3 | 0 |
2500245 English Studies | OT | 4 | 0 |
The 2019-2020 edition of "Prose in English" will focus on the study of a specific genre: war literature.
Special attention will be paid to issues related to ethics, politics, memory and even the physical experience of war. Specifically, the following topics will be addressed:
When completing the course, the student will be able to:
1 ECTS credit = 25 hores; 6 credits = 150 hores
Guided activities (30%, 1.8 cr)
Supevised activities (15%, 0.9 cr)
Autonomous activities (50%, 3 cr)
Assessment activities (5%, 0.3 cr)
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Class Debate | 20 | 0.8 | 4, 6, 20, 16 |
Lectures | 25 | 1 | 19 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Writing tasks and activities assessed in class | 15 | 0.6 | 4, 5, 1, 19, 16 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading and study | 65 | 2.6 | 4, 6, 19, 18, 16 |
Please, note:
RE-ASSESSMENT CONDITIONS:
VERY IMPORTANT : Partial or total plagiarising will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarised exercise (first-year students) or the WHOLE subject (second-, third-and fourth-year students). PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources -whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text - with the intention of passing it off as the student's own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student's own text. Plagiarising is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors' intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Participation | 20% | 21 | 0.84 | 20, 7, 14, 13, 8, 18, 15 |
Writing Tasks | 80% | 4 | 0.16 | 4, 5, 1, 2, 6, 3, 20, 19, 10, 17, 9, 11, 13, 8, 16, 12, 21 |
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. 1975. London: Oxford UP, 2013. Print.
Gupta, Suman. Imagining Iraq: Literature in English and the Iraq Invasion. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Print.
Hutcheon, Linda. “Historiographic Metafiction. Parody and the Intertextuality of History.” Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. O’Donnell. P, and Robert Con Davis. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989. 3-32. Print.
--- A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. 1988. New York: Routledge, 2004.Print.
McLoughlin, Kate. Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq. Leiden: Cambridge University Press, 2011.Print.
Melling, Philip H. Vietnam in American Literature. Boston: Mass, 1990. Print.
Mosse, G. 1996. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. New York: Oxford UP.
---. 1990. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. New York: Oxford UP.
Owen, David and Cristina Pividori. Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War: That Better Whiles May Follow Worse. Leiden: BrillRodopi, 2016. Print.
Pividori, Cristina. "Eros and Thanatos Revisited: the Poetics of Trauma in Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier" Atlantis. 32.2 (2010): 89-104. Print.
---. "Out of the Dark Room: Photography and Memory in Rachel Seiffert's Holocaust Tales." Atlantis. 30.2 (2008): 79-94. Print.
Rawlinson, Mark. British Writing of the Second World War. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.Print.
Sharpe, Jim. “History from Below.” New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Ed. Peter Burke. 1991. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001. Print
Tylee, Claire M. The Great War and Women’s Consciousness. Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women’s Writings, 1914-64. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990. Print.
Vickroy, L. Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2002. P.
Winter, Jay. Remembering War: The Great War between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century. New Haven & London: Yale UP, 2006. Print