This course is offered in the second term of the third/fourth year of Basque Studies and Philology. Its main goals are: 1) to get to know the English Literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, 2) to identify the main literary trends of both periods as well as its historical, cultural and social context, 3) to develop as independent learners and thinkers, 4) to think critically, 5) to analyse the best literary output of both epochs using the techniques of text analysis, and 6) to improve the students reading comprehension and oral and written expression in English.

COMPETENCES



This subject belongs to the Module “Fundamentos en Literatura Inglesa” (M04). Specifically it contributes to the achievement of module competences:



CM01- To understand the English language and to use it properly through the reading of different literary texts.

CM02- To analyze literature written in English, exploring the interaction of the literary texts with the cultural and historical context in English-speaking countries.

CM03- To understand, analyze and interpret critically literature in English, using adequate text analysis techniques and to transmit and discuss it in groups and individually.

CM04- To understand the role of literature in the creation of personal and collective ideas related to fields of general interest, such as history, social relations or gender.



Final achievement of the module competences above entails the fulfillment of the degree competences:



G004- To understand, analyse and interpret English literature and to be able to evaluate critically texts and documents in English (MEC1; MEC2; MEC3; MEC4).

G007- To be able to relate the specific knowledge of the degree with other areas and disciplines and to transmit that knowledge in further studies in order to favour conciliatory and tolerant attitudes towards multilingual and multicultural diversity (MEC1; MEC2; MEC3; MEC4; MEC5).

G008- To be able to work autonomously and in teams, making use of the techniques and tools acquired (MEC4; MEC5).

G009- To be able to transmit the knowledge acquired in different academic contexts to be used in diverse professional contexts (MEC4; MEC5).

INTRODUCTORY UNIT – MORE ON LITERATURE



a) Literary terms

a.1) Poetry

a.2) Theatre

a.3) Prose

b) The Book of Genesis and The Book of Job

c) 17th and 18th C. Literature in England: major authors and works



UNIT 1 – 17TH CENTURY LITERATURE IN ENGLAND



1.1. General information



1.1.1 Tension between the monarchy and parliament

1.1.2. Religious tension

1.1.3. Culture wars (Royalist Vs Puritans)

1.1.4. Poetry (Cavalier Vs Metaphysical)

1.1.5. Background information to Elizabethan Literature



1.2. Poetry



1.2.1. Metaphysical poetry

1.2.2. John Donne

1.2.3. John Milton

1.2.4. Restoration Poetry

1.2.5. John Dryden



1.3. Theatre



1.3.1. Introduction to the origins of the theatre

1.3.2. Review about Shakespeare

1.3.3. Ben Jonson

1.3.4. Drama from Shakespeare until the act of closure



1.4. Short Narrative



1.4.1. John Bunyan



UNIT 2 – 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE IN ENGLAND



2.1. General information



2.1.1 Cultural Context

2.1.3 The beginnings of the novel



2.2. Poetry



2.2.1. Pre-Romantic and Augustan Poetry

2.2.2. Relevant figures (Pope, Gray and Blake)



2.3. Prose



2.3.1. The beginnings of English Literary Criticism

The Critical works of John Dryden

The Critical works of Henry Fielding

The Critical works of Dr. Samuel Johnson

- The Critical works of Jonathan Swift

2.3.2. The beginnings of Newspapers –journalism-

Richard Steele and The Tatler

- Joseph Addison and The Spectator

2.3.3. The beginnings of the Novel

- Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Smollet, Sterne,

Goldsmith

2.3.4. Jane Austen: A stepping stone between the novel of the 18th

& 19th centuries



2.4. Theatre



2.4.1. The theatre in the 18th c.

2.4.2. Comedy: R. B. Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith





UNIT 3 – GOTHIC LITERATURE



3.1. The idea of the Gothic.

3.2. Development of Gothic Literature

3.3. Horace Walpole, Ann Radclife, M. G. Lewis, Mary W. Shelley

The classes will be a mixture of lecturing and practical student work in class.

1. General lectures to explain general topics.

2. Students' own research.

3. Small groups of practical work to carry on the analysis of texts.

4. Individual assigments.

5. Group work.

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• Azken Ebaluazioaren Sistema
• Kalifikazioko tresnak eta ehunekoak:
  • Garatu beharreko proba idatzia (%): 40
  • Praktikak egitea (ariketak, kasuak edo buruketak) (%): 10
  • Banakako lanak (%): 25
  • Lanen, irakurketen... aurkezpena (%): 25

The type of assessment is continuous. Students will be assessed according to their performance in the following testing tasks:

Assignments:

a. 17th C & 18th C. (essay and short questions): 40%

b. Comparison between a novel and a film version of the novel (essay and short questions about Gulliver’s Travels) + analysis of The Rivals + Gothic: 25%

c. Individual project (oral recorded presentation-PBL): 25%

d. Class attendance and participation (it includes, at least, one conference): 10%



Students failing to present these assessment tasks will receive no credit (0 marks) for the missed work.

Information on the use of resources and materials for the assessment tasks/exam:



Exam: The use of mobile or electronic devices, notes, books is not allowed (unless the teacher says what students can use, such as class notes).

Home-assignments: the work submitted by the students must be their own work and must have been written completely by themselves. The students must identify and include the source of all facts, ideas, opinions and viewpoints of others through in-text referencing and the relevant sources should all be included in the list of references at the end of their work. Direct quotations from books, journal articles, internet sources or any other source must be acknowledged and the sources cited must be identified in the list of references.



The regulation about assessment can be found at the following link:

http://www.ehu.eus/es/web/estudiosdegrado-gradukoikasketak/ebaluaziorako-arautegia



Withdrawal from Continuous Assessment: All students have the right to be evaluated according to the final evaluation procedure independently of whether or not they have participated in the continuous assessment module. In order to do so, they must write the instructor responsible for the course expressing their desire to withdraw from the continuous assessment. For four-month courses students can do so within the first 9 weeks of the course, according to the academic calendar of their center. The form that has to be filled in is available at the website of the faculty http://www.ehu.eus/eu/web/letrak/idazkaritza



Withdrawal from an exam call: Withdrawal from a call will be assessed as “no grade reported” [no presentado/a].

1. In the case of continuous assessment, all students can withdraw from a call until at least one month before the date of the end of the teaching schedule of the corresponding course. This withdrawal must be submitted in writing to the instructor responsible for the course.

2. In the case of final assessment, not sitting the exam on the official date of the exam qualifies as an automatic withdrawal from the corresponding call.



The new regulation about assessment can be found at the following link:

http://www.ehu.eus/es/web/estudiosdegrado-gradukoikasketak/ebaluaziorako-arautegia

The mark will be based on the following assignments:



a. 17th C & 18th C. (essay and short questions): 50%

b. Comparison between a novel and a film version of the novel (essay and short questions about Gulliver’s Travels) + analysis of The Rivals + Gothic: 25%

c. Individual project (oral recorded presentation-PBL): 25%

T- LITERATURE SELECTED NOTES
- The novel you have selected for your project.
- Two British Satires of the 18th Century. Gulliver's Travels & The Rivals

Oinarrizko bibliografia

Critical basic reading:



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GUERIN, Wilfred L. et al., A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, Oxford, 1992.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. I & II (Introductions to periods and authors)



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ARMITAGE, D. et al: Milton and republicanism, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1995.

BALD, R.C.: John Donne: A Life, Oxford, 1970.

BALL, D.L.: Samuel Richardson's Theory of Fiction, Univ. of Kansas, 1967.

BARISH, J.A.(Edit.): Ben Jonson: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1963.

_____ : Jonson: Volpone: a casebook, Houndmills: Macmillan Education, 1972.

BARELL, J.et al. (1983): English Literature in History, 1730-1780, New York: St. Martin's.BENNET, J.: “Five Metaphysical Poets”, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1966.

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BENTLY, G.E. (1968): The jacobean and caroline stage, London: O.U.P.BUSH, D.: “English Literature in the Ealier Seventeenth Century 1600 1660”, Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1973.

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BRATTON, J.S. (1991): Acts of Supremacy: the British Empire and the Stage, 1790-1930, Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press.Brooks, D.: Number and Pattern in the Eighteenth Century Novel, London, 1973.

BROWER, R.A.: Alexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion, O.U.P., London, 1986.

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CAREY, John: John Donne: Life, Mind and Art, London, 1990.

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DAICHES, D.: A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 3 & Vol. 4, Secker and Warburg, London, 1968.

_____.: Milton. Paradise Lost, London: Edward Arnold, 1983

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DOODY, M.A.: A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richar¬dson, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974.

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ELIOT, T.S.: On Poetry and Poets, Faber & Faber, London, 1957.

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EVANS, I.: A Short History of English Drama, Macgibbon and Kee, London, 1965.

EVERET, B. Donne: A London Poet, London: O.U.P, 1972.

FLUCHÉRE, H.: Laurence Sterne: From Tristan to Yorick, O.U.P., 1965.

FREEMAN, W.: Oliver Goldsmith, London, 1951.

FRYE, N.: Fearful Symmetry: A Study of Blake, O.U.P., London, 1947.

GARDNER, D.: A Reading of "Paradise Lost", Oxford: OUP, 1965.

GARDNER, H. (Edit.): John Donne: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliff, N.J., 1962.

GILHAM, D.G.: William Blake, C.U.P., 1973.

GLECKNER, R.F. & GLECKNER, M.L.: Approaches to teaching Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, New York: MLAA, 1989.

GRIERSON, H.: Cross Currents in English Literature in the Seven¬teenth Century, Penguin Books, 1966.

HARRISON, G.B.: Elizabethan Plays and Players, Ann Arbor, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1956.

HILL, C.: The experience of defeat: Milton and some contemporaries, New York: Viking Penguin, 1984.

HONIGMAN, E.A.J. (ed.), Milton's sonnets, New York: Macmillan, 1966

HOOVER, E.: John Donne and Francisco de Quevedo: Poets of Love and Death, Chapel Hill, NC., 1978.

HOPKINS, R.H.: The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith, London, 1969.

HOSSICK, M.: William Blake (video): A concise biography. London: Academy Media, 1995.

IRWIN, M.: Henry Fielding: The Tentative Realist, Oxford, 1967.

JACKSON, W. & YODER, R.P.: Approaches to teaching Pope's poetry. New York: MLAM, 1993.

KASTOR, F.S.: Milton and the literary satan, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.

KIRSCH, A.C.: Jacobean Dramatic Perspectives, Univ. Press of Virginia, Charlottesvile, 1972.

KNOLL, R.E.: Ben Jonson's Plays, Lincoln, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1964.

LEWIS, C.S.: A preface to Paradise Lost, London: O.U.P., 1960.

LISTER, R.: William Blake: An Introduction to the Man and His Work, Bell, London, 1968.

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MEE, J.: Dangerous Enthusiasm. William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

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MEE, J.: Dangerous enthusiasm: William Blake and the culture of radicalism in the 1790s, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

NEWLYN, L.: Paradise Lost and the romantic reader, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

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