ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- Analysis of seminal works, authors and literary movements in the British Isles and Ireland in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century.
- Analysis of Social, Political, and Historical Background of the Selected Literary Works.
- Analysis of Formal and Discursive Strategies pertaining to literary genre, author and period.
0. AN INTRODUCTION TO TWENTY AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND
1. LITERARY MODERNISM
1.1. WB Yeats, 'Selected Poems'
1.2. T.S. Eliot, 'The Waste Land'
1.3. Joseph Conrad, 'Heart of Darkness'
1.4. James Joyce, 'Dubliners'
1.5. Virginia Woolf, 'Mrs Dalloway'
2. POSTWAR AND INTERMODERNISM
2.1 Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
3. POSTMODERN LTIERATURE
3.1. Gender and Feminist Theoretical Contexts.
3.2 A.S. Byatt, "Art Work"
3.3. The Twenty-first Century: metamodernism/post postmodernism
3.4. Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
REQUIRED READING:
W.B. Yeats, Selection of poems
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899, selected passages)
James Joyce, Selected stories from Dubliners (2014). Selected passages from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (2016) and Ulysses (1922)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
A. S. Byatt, “Art Work” from The Matisse Stories (1993)
Bernardine Evaristo, from Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
BASIC READING:
Butler, Christopher (1994). Modernism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP.
Butler, Christopher (1994). Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe 1900-1916. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Hutcheon, Linda (2003) . A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. London: Routledge
Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith. Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. London: Routledge, 2002.
FURTHER READING:
ON MODERNISM:
Eysteinsson, Astradur (2007). Modernism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Levenson, Michael. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Smith, Stan 1994. The Origins of Modernism : Eliot, Pound, Yeats and the rhetorics of Renewal. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
W.B. YEATS:
Dyson, A. E. 1984. Yeats : Poems 1919-1935. London : McMillan.
Jeffares, Norman A. 1988. Poems of W. B. Yeats. London : McMillan.
Kiley, Benedict 1989. Yeats’ Ireland. London : Aurum Press.
T.S. ELIOT:
Bagchee, Shyamal 1990. T. S. Eliot : A Voice Descanting, London : McMillan.
Coote, Stephen 1985. T. S. Eliot : The Waste Land, Harmondsworth : Penguin.
Richardson, John 1991. “Age and Youth in The Waste Land”. English 39(165): 215-227.
Scofield, Martin 1988. T. S. Eliot : The Poems, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
JOSEPH CONRAD:
Karl, Frederic R. 1979. Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Watt, Ian 1980. Conrad in the Nineteenth Century. London: Chatto & Windus.
JAMES JOYCE:
Álvarez Amorós, José Antonio 1987. En torno al Discurso Narrativo de Dubliners. Alicante : Universidad.
Baker, Christopher P. 1982. “The Dead Art of “The Dead””. English Studies 63(6): 531-34.
Beja, Morris 1971. Epiphany in the Modern Novel. London : Peter Owen, 1971.
Benstock, Bernard. Narrative Con/Texts in Dubliners. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Bernstock, Bernard 1988. “The Gnomics of Dubliners”. Modern Fiction Studies 34(4): 519-540.
Leonard, Gary M. 1994. “The Free man’s Journal : The Making of His[s]tory in Joyce’s “The Sisters””. Modern Fiction Studies 36(4): 455-482.
Tejedor Cabrera, José María. Guía a Dublineses de James Joyce. Sevilla: Kronos, 2002.
VIRGINIA WOOLF:
Batchelor, John 1991. Virginia Woolf : The Major Novels. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Lee, Hermione 1996. Virginia Woolf. London : Chatto & Windus.
ON POSTWAR AND POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
Almagro Jiménez, Manuel. A Dust of Words. Novela y Postmodernidad. Sevilla: Arcibel Editores, 2010.
Lee, Alison. Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction. London: Routledge, 1990.
Medina Casado, Carmelo. Poetas ingleses del siglo XX. Madrid: Síntesis, 2007.
Taylor, Victor E., and Charles E. Winquist. Postmodernism: Critical Concepts. London: Routledge, 1998.
ON WRITING AND GENDER:
Felski, Rita. Literature After Feminism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Hidalgo, Pilar. Tiempo de Mujeres. Madrid: Horas y Horas, 1995.
Light, Alison. Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars. London: Routledge, 1991.
Sage, Lorna. Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists. London: Macmillan, 1992.
ON POSTCOLONIAL AND MULTIETHNIC LITERATURE:
Abel, Elizabeth 1979. “Women and Schizophrenia: The Fiction of Jean Rhys”. Contemporary Literature 20(2): 155-177.
Ascroft, Bill & Helen Tiffin (eds.) 1989. The Empire Writes Back. London: Routledge.
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Oxford: OUP, 1995.
Hite, Molly 1989. The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies in Contemporary Feminist Narrative. London: Cornell UP.
Loomba, A. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London: Routledge, 1998.
Praga Terente, Inés. La novela irlandesa del siglo XX. Barcelona: PPU, 2005.
Thorpe, Michael 1977. “‘The Other Side’: Wide Sargasso Sea and Jean Eyre”. ARIEL
CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4, CB5
CG3, CG5, CG6, CG7, CG8, CG9, CE5, CE6, CE7, CE8, CE9, CE10
This subject combines:
LECTURES (Docencia Expositiva): 32 h. (2h/per week). Students will be introduced to theoretical concepts, authors, literary background and movements
SEMINARS (Docencia Interactica): 16 h. (1 h/per week). Students will focus on particular texts (agreed on advance)
Tutorials: 3 h. Organization of the different work teams to prepare oral presentations on assigned topics for seminar sessions. During tutorials students (in teams) will have the opportunity to ask questions concerning these practical tasks as well as about any other aspect of the course (written exam, course contents and objectives, etc.). Part of this tutorial activity will be carried out through the virtual platform by means of tools and chats specifically created for each working team.
Lecturers may occasionally bring to class guest speakers to deliver a talk related to the contents of this subject.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento
académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
-Final examination: 70% of the final grade. Please notice that a minimum grade in this exam (50%) will be necessary to add the assignment and attendance grade.
-Assignments (seminars): 30 % of the final grade.
IMPORTANT: Attendance is compulsory. Those students failing to attend FIVE OR MORE SESSIONS (either lecture classes or seminars) without due cause over the semester will lose their right to the percentage grade for the continuous assessment component (30%). Requests for absences justification need to be submitted up to 5 working days after the period to which they refer.
This assessment system will also apply to the second opportunity (July Call).
STUDENTS RETAKING THE COURSE OF EXEMPT FROM CLASS ATTENDANCE:
1.- Those students retaking the course will be assessed according to the above-mentioned system, unless it is impossible for them to attend class. In such cases, they must inform the coordinator about their wish to take the assessment system applied to those students exempt from class attendance (exam – 100%). If students in this situation fail to notify their circumstances at the beginning of the term, they will lose their right to be assessed via a final exam (100%).
2.- Those students who are officially exempt from class attendance (‘dispensa académica’) will have to do a final exam worth 100% of the mark.
The literary texts must be read in English and the exams and assignments must be written also in English. Fluency and correct language use will be taken into account when marking these activities.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento
académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
Lectures: 32 hours (2hours per week)
Seminars: 16 hours (1 hour per week)
Tutorials: 3 hours per student and year
CLASS WORK:51 hours
INDIVIDUAL WORK: 99 hours
TOTAL: 150 hours (6 ECTS credits)
- Reading prior to seminars/lectures is required
- Familiarity with literary analysis critical tools
- Fluency in English
- Occasionally some required texts will be available in the virtual classroom.
- As for the required texts/authors for this course, we may decide that we need to spend more time on some aspects and less on others, therefore this is a flexible syllabus.
- If fraudulent practices are detected in assigments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento
académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
Margarita Estevez Saa
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811839
- margarita.estevez.saa [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | English | C01 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | English | C01 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | English | C01 |
| Friday | |||
| 09:00-10:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C12 |
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C12 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C11 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C11 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C11 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C11 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C12 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C12 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C12 |
| 05.28.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C12 |
| 07.02.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C11 |
| 07.02.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-F) | C11 |
| 07.02.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (G-O) | C11 |
| 07.02.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (P-Z) | C11 |