Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2504212 English Studies | OB | 2 | 2 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OB | 3 | 2 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OB | 3 | 1 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OB | 3 | 2 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OB | 3 | 2 |
UNIT 1 – The Native American Question. Captivity Narratives. Mary Rowlandson’s A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (selection of passages)
UNIT 2 – The American Rennaissance. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter; Herman Melville’s "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience.
UNIT 3 - American Poetry. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman (selection of poems)
UNIT 4 – Slavery and Racial Relations in America. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; Mark Twain’s text (title to be announced later); Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby”
UNIT 5 – The American Gothic. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-tale Heart”
UNIT 6 – American Feminism. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”; Margaret Fuller (selection of passages); Elizabeth Cady-Stanton (selection of passages); Sojourner Truth (selection of passages)
Sessions will be organized around close reading of the texts. A historical, social and cultural context of nineteenth century America provided in class (or on Moodle) will reinforce the textual analysis. Texts will be discussed in class (or on Moodle), so it is PARAMOUNT for students to have read the texts conscientiously before class sessions. Students are required to PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY in class discussions.
The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures, readings and debates | 50 | 2 | 1, 7, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Writing academic texts, assessment activities in the classroom | 25 | 1 | 1, 7, 2, 4, 5, 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading and studying | 50 | 2 | 7, 8, 10, 11, 4 |
Assessment is based on:
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 theintention of passing it off as the student'sown production. It includes cuttingand 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.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Essay | 45% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Exam | 45% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Forum and class participation | 10% | 17 | 0.68 | 1, 7, 9, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Compulsory Reading:
ROWLANDSON, Mary. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (*) We recommend the following editions: Oxford (ISBN: 9780199537808) or Penguin (ISBN: 9780142437261)
MELVILLE, Herman. "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
THOREAU, Henry David. Civil Disobedience (Complete essay)
DOUGLASS, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (*) We recommend the folowing editions: Oxford (ISBN: 9780199539079) or Penguin (ISBN: 9780140390124)
1) Students must buy the texts marked (*). Teachers will give you the rest of texts.
2) ALL texts can be found via Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg. org or Many Books http://manybooks.net
Secondary Bibliography:
Crow, Charles (ed.). A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
Fisch, Audrey (ed.). The CambridgeCompanion to the African American Slave Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Gray, Richard (ed.). A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Lamb, Robert Paul (ed.). A Companion to American Fiction: 1865-1914. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Pizer, Donald (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Spengemann, William. Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville. Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
Sollors, Werner (ed.). A New Literary History of America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Specific bibliography will be provided by the teacher throughout the semester.
Websites:
American Literature Sites (Washington State University), http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/
American Transcendentalism, http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/
The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html
Documenting the American South. Slave Narratives and Southern texts. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html
Not applicable.