Introducción á Literatura Inglesa 2012/2013 - Universidade de ...
Introducción á Literatura Inglesa 2012/2013 - Universidade de ...
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Guía Did<strong>á</strong>ctica <strong>de</strong> la asignatura <strong>Introducción</strong> a la <strong>Literatura</strong> <strong>Inglesa</strong><br />
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The Renaissance.<br />
3.1. Humanism. The Reformation.<br />
3.2. Elizabethan Literature<br />
3.3. Stuart Literature (before the Revolution)<br />
CLASES EXPOSITIVAS:<br />
I. General context. The <strong>de</strong>cline of the Middle Ages. The beginning of a new<br />
period. "Encounter" with America. The Gutenberg Bible. Humanism. The<br />
Reformation. Protestant preachers. Henry VIII, head of the Church of England.<br />
Towards the "mo<strong>de</strong>rn" state. London. The union of two crowns with James I.<br />
Tudor and Stwart i<strong>de</strong>ology.<br />
II. The material conditions of the production of literature. The printing press.<br />
Patrons and poets, audiences and playwrights. The stage. Political and religious<br />
censorship. Women translators.<br />
III. Poetics. The moral and political function of literature. The <strong>de</strong>fence of poetry.<br />
Elizabethan rhetoric. Paradoxical and hyperbolic presentation of love. Fame and<br />
posthumous reputation. The centrality of the human being. Education.<br />
IV. Genres, movements, writers. Comedia <strong>de</strong>ll´arte (1545). Utopia.<br />
Translations of the Bible. Epic poetry. The sonnet. Elizabethan and Metaphysical<br />
poetry. Theatre. The masque. Prose: The new science. Pamphlets.<br />
V. The arts. Pictorial perspective. Polyphony. Architecture: Inigo Jones.<br />
Compulsory Reading:<br />
(Reading prior to class is required)<br />
SESIONES INTERACTIVAS:<br />
Selection of sonnets by Wyatt, Spenser and Shakespeare.<br />
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Monologues and opening scene).<br />
Metaphysical Poets. A selection of poems.<br />
Compulsory Activity:<br />
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Translation of a sonnet by Spenser and/or Shakespeare.<br />
Recommen<strong>de</strong>d Editions:<br />
Booth, S. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.<br />
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