UNIVERSIDAD CHILENO BRITÁNICA DE CULTURA

CALENDARIZACIÓN DE ESTUDIOS CULTURALES DE LAS COMUNIDADES ANGLOPARLANTES I (Taller de Literatura Inglesa)

PRIMER SEMESTRE 2010

Asignatura: Taller de Carrera: TIE N° horas: 2 horas semanales Docente: Nicolás Poblete Pardo
Literatura Inglesa (Ex ECA) Lunes de 11.45-13.15

Semana Fecha Contenidos Bibliografía y Fuentes de información Metodología Evaluación

1° Mar-22 Introduction to Literary Studies Glossary of Narrative and poetic terms, from Narrative, Paul Lecture (handout and
Cobley. discussion)
Articles selection, from Literary Theory: An Anthology, Rivkin and
Ryan (Propp, Freud, Lacan, Foucault)

2° Mar-29 Beowulf J.R.R.Tolkien’s analysis of Beowulf and excerpts. Lecture (questionnaire) Presentation: Beowulf in context
(Genesis of this epic-historical
background)
3° April- 5 Medieval Period sample Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, “Wife of Bath”, from Lecture-Historical Presentation: The relevance of
Geoffrey Chaucer Adventures in English Literature by Inglis Spear. (Intro to the Background&Chaucer outline Chaucer in Literature.
Wife).

4° April-12 Chaucer II Fragments from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Questionnaire and comparison Oral presentation on Carta
Carta Magna The Cartha Magna. between text and film. Magna
Carta Magna
5° April-19 Elizabethan Age/Theater William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Lecture Oral presentation on the rise of
William Shakespeare Group work (Discussion: The Theater in England
Tudors/Elizabethan England)
and Shakespeare’s context).
6° April-26 Elizabethan Age II Shakespeare II Lecture Presentation: Shakespeare today
Shakespeare Fragments from Midsummer Night’s Dream film (BBC). Group work (Handout. Analysis (with background).
of the film’s point of view).
Handout for test including John
Milton
7° May-3 John Milton and TEST 1 Excerpts from Paradise Lost Lecture Cumulative Test 1

8° May-10 Poetry (Seventeenth and Eighteenth A case from the Seventeenth Century (John Donne) and the Lecture Oral presentation on these poets.
Centuries) Eighteenth (William Blake), excerpts from Adventures in English Group work (Poetic analysis &
Literature. application of the glossary to
the poems).
9° May-17 The Victorian Age Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Markheim” Lecture Oral presentation on Victorian
Group work (Handout with writers (Brontë sisters, Dickens,
concepts by Freud and Lacan, Conrad, Trollope, etc.)
to be applied to the story)
10° May-24 The Bloomsbury group Selection of Letters by Virginia Woolf (short story by Woolf) Lecture (questionnaire and Presentation on the Bloomsbury
analysis on Woolf’s narrative) group.
11° May-31 Ireland (Between Modernity and Excerpts from Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett. Comparison Lecture Oral presentation on Samuel
Postmodernity) between Beckett and James Joyce by Gregor Rumpf (article). Group work (Application of Beckett and James Joyce
Short film “Not I”, from Beckett on Film (BBC) Freud’s ‘Uncanny’ to Beckett’s
Analysis of Joyce’s “Eveline”. works)

12° June-7 Contemporary narrators Angela Carter and her influence on women writers. Lecture Presentation on Carter’s legacy.
Angela Carter, short stories from The Bloody Chamber, and Group work (Questionnaire:
author interview. Point of view : Women studies
and Carter through Vladimir
Propp’s essay.).
13° June-14 Panoramic review and TEST 2 Cumulative Test 2

14° June-21 British Fiction Today. Shifting Stories by Nicola Barker and Jeanette Winterson from The three Group work through handout Oral presentation on British
Identities buttons trick and The world and Other Places, respectively. Discussion: Lacan’s concepts Fiction today (including Julian
and Feminism approach) Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Doris
Lessing and others).
15° June-28 No classes --------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- --------------------------
(San
Pedro/Pa
blo)

16° July-5 Nobel Laureate Lecture: Harold A political approach. Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture, 2005 Lecture
Pinter –Review and Guide for Final Guidelines for the exam-Revision. Activity: Sequence and
Exam Summary of Topics.
17° July-12 Final Exam

18°| July-19 Repetition exams.

*Students will need to organize groups (or couples) in the first two classes for the presentations.
*The teacher will provide a ‘reader’ with most of the texts required for class.
*Winter Break: July 27th-August 8th