ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree 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 | 1st year (Yes)
-Learning to handle literary typology derived from the concepts of “genre” and “mode”
-Engaging in theoretical discussions around the concepts of genre and mode
-Learning about and analysing theoretical and literary texts in English from different historical periods within the concpetual framework of genre and mode.
1. The concepts of genre and mode: definition, similarities and differences
2. Generic and modal formulation in literary theory in English
3. From comedy and the comic to tragedy and the tragic: genres and modes in a selection of works of the literary tradition in English
Basic
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. Gerald F. Else. Michigan: The University Press, 1977.
Derrida, Jacques. “The Law of Genre”. Trans. A. Ronell. Critical Inquiry 7/1 (1980): 55-81. Available at: http://eng1020.pbworks.com/f/DerridaLawofGenre.pdf
Fowler, Alastair. Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Genres and Modes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.
Genette, Gérard. The Architext: An Introduction. Trans. Jane A. Lewin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
Lodge, David. The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature. Cornell University Press, 1977.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Genres in Discourse. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Complementary
Bakhtin, M. M. “Epic and the Novel.” The Dialectic Imagination. Ed. M. Holquist and trans. C. Emerson and M. Holquist. Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, [1941] 1981, 3-40.
Bushnell, Rebeca, ed. A Companion to Tragedy. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Frow, John. “‘Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need’: Genre Theory Today.” PMLA 122/5 (2007): 1626-1634.
Chartier, Roger. “Genre between Literature and History.” Modern Language Quarterly. 67/1 (2006): 129-139.
Habjan, Jernej and Fabienne Imlinger. Globalizing Literary Genres: Literature, History, Modernity. New York: Rotledge, 2016.
Kent, Thomas. Interpretation of Genre: The Role of Generic Perception in the Study of Narrative Texts. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1986.
Moretti, Franco. “The End of the Beginning”. New Left Review II/41 (2006): 71-86
Newton, K. M. Modern Literature and the Tragic. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008
Steiner, George. The Death of Tragedy. London: Faber & Faber, 1961.
Siskind, Mariano. “The Genres of World Literature.” The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Eds. Theo D’haen, David Damrosch adn Djelal Kadir. London: Routledge, 345-355.
Stott, Andrew. Comedy. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Genres in Discourse. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1978] 1990.
Wallace, Jennifer. The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Weitz, Eric. The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Competences (“Memoria do Máster Interuniversitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados e as Súas Aplicacións, 2ª edición", pp. 6-7: http://www.imaes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MEMORIA_ANEXOS-I-II.pdf)
G01- Ability to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related to the various areas of English Studies, as well as to become familiar with the methodology required to solve those problems typical of this field of study.
G02 Ability to apply the knowledge gained/obtained within the multidisciplinary and mutifaceted/versatile area of English Studies.
G04- Ability to present experiences, ideas or reports in public, as well as to express informed opinions based on criteria, external rules or personal reflections, for which a sufficient command of the academic and scientific language, both written and oral, will be necessary.
G05- Abilities to investigate and manage new knowledge and information within the context of English Studies.
G06- Ability to acquire/achieve critical thinking that will lead students to consider the relevance of the existing research in the fields of study that make up/shape/define English Studies, as well as the relevance of their own investigations.
E07- Capacity to analyse different types of texts and spoken and/or written discourse in English.
E09- Knowledge of the main models and resources of literary/cultural research in the anglophone world.
E11- Capacity to identify and analyse the most relevant features of the anglophone culture and institutions through texts belonging to different historical periods.
E12- Capacity to understand different theoretical and critical approaches as well as their application for the analysis of different literary and cultural texts in the anglophone world.
1. Lectures on the concepts of literary genre and mode.
2. Seminars: discussion of case studies that exhibit and/or subvert the defining features of genres and modes taken from the literary tradition in English.
3. Individual tasks assigned through the virtual platform based on theoretico-critical and literary texts.
4. Virtual tutorials: reading quizzes, essay revision.
5. Discussion forums in the virtual platform.
The assessment system is based on the following criteria:
• Initial level test: 0%
• Participation in seminars: 10 % (Assessed competences: G01, G02, G05, E09, E11, E12)
• Oral presentation: 40 % (Assessed competences: G02, G04, G05, E07, E12)
• Written paper on an assigned topic: 50% (Assessed competences: G02, G04, G05, G06, E12)
Important notice:
1) These criteria will apply to course assessment both in May and July
2) In case some student is exempt from attending the course sessions, the 100 per cent of the final grade will be assessed by 2 assigned papers
a) Total number of hours = 75
b) Top classroom work time= 14;
c) Top work time through the virtual platform = 10;
d) Students individual work time = 51
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.
Jorge Sacido Romero
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811880
- jorge.sacido [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 18:15-19:15 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C08 |
| 19:15-20:15 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C08 |
| 05.26.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C08 |
| 05.26.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C08 |
| 07.07.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C08 |
| 07.07.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C08 |