Contenidos teóricos y prácticos de la asignatura
María Beatriz Hernández Pérez
1) Foundations (to 1100): Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain. Old English literature.
2) Leaving the "Dark Ages" behind (1066-1500): Foreign impacts and influences.
2.1 Crisis and splendour of the fourteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer and the English community.
2.2 The fifteenth century and the arrival of printing.
3) Renaissance and Reformation (1500-1603).
3.1 Elizabethan poetry and drama.
3.2 William Shakespeare: A brief introduction to his figure.
María del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas
4) Seventeenth-century England: Jacobean, Caroline, Civil War, Protectorate and Restoration.
5) Eighteenth-century in England. The Enlightenment. The rise of the novel.
6) The Industrial Revolution. Introduction to Romantic poetry and fiction.
7) Power was the icon: The Victorian Age and its literature.
8) Between wars and peace. Main cultural and literary Icons of the 20th and 21st centuries.
1) Foundations (to 1100): Celtic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain. Old English literature.
2) Leaving the "Dark Ages" behind (1066-1500): Foreign impacts and influences.
2.1 Crisis and splendour of the fourteenth century. Geoffrey Chaucer and the English community.
2.2 The fifteenth century and the arrival of printing.
3) Renaissance and Reformation (1500-1603).
3.1 Elizabethan poetry and drama.
3.2 William Shakespeare: A brief introduction to his figure.
María del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas
4) Seventeenth-century England: Jacobean, Caroline, Civil War, Protectorate and Restoration.
5) Eighteenth-century in England. The Enlightenment. The rise of the novel.
6) The Industrial Revolution. Introduction to Romantic poetry and fiction.
7) Power was the icon: The Victorian Age and its literature.
8) Between wars and peace. Main cultural and literary Icons of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Actividades a desarrollar en otro idioma
Todas las sesiones se impartirán en inglés, lengua de todo el material docente de la asignatura. Se espera del alumnado un dominio operativo eficaz de la lengua inglesa, tanto en la expresión oral como escrita, equivalente al nivel B1 (MCER).