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)
To study periodization in Anglophone Literatures.
To focus on the particular case of post-Illustration movements and periods
To analyse and to interpret texts belonging to different periods in Anglophone literatures.
To learn about, reflect on and even question and critize existing proposals on literary periodization/literary movements
To devise alternative ways of periodizing literature according to/guided by new/different concepts
1.- Conceptual approach, different literary & cultural trends (Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism): Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (from text to screen), Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight (from the New Woman to the New Old Woman) & Jackie Kay’s “Would Jane Eyre Come to the Information Desk”.
2.- Further -Isms (Postcolonialism VS Decolonialism, Magical Realism VS Marvellous Realism): Ngugi wa Thiongo’s “Europe and the West must also be decolonized”, Derek Walcott’s “The Sea is History” & Amanda Craig’s “Metamorphosis 2”.
3.- Other -Isms (Crime Fiction, In-Yer-Face Theatre, Punk Poetry & BrexLit): Sarah Kane’s Blasted & John Cooper Clarke’s “Evidently, Chickentown”.
Almagro Jiménez, M. 2010. A Dust of Words. Novela y Postmodernidad. Sevilla: Arcibel Editores.
Andrew, L. and C. Phelps. 2013. Crime Fiction in the City Capital Crimes. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Ashley, S. L. T., et al. 2023. Whose Heritage? Challenging Race and Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-Nation Britain. London: Taylor & Francis.
Barker, R. 1997. Political Ideas in Modern Britain: In and After the Twentieth Century. London: Routledge.
Butler, C. 1994. Modernism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxform University Press.
Cole, S. 2012. At the Violent Hour: Modernism and Violence in England and Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Davis, T. S. 2016. Late Modernism and Everyday Life. New York: Columbia University Press.
Duggan, P. 2018. Trauma-Tragedy Symptoms of Contemporary Performance. Baltimore, MD: Project Muse.
Eaglestone, R. 2018. Brexit and literature: critical and cultural responses. London: Routledge.
Esslin, M., and J. C. Castro. 1968. The Theatre of the Absurd. London: Penguin.
Eysteinsson, A. 2007. Modernism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Froula, C. 2005. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde war, civilization, modernity. New York: Columbia University Pres.
Gordon, L. G. 2002. Reading Godot. New Have, CO: Yale University Press.
Gregoriou, C. 2007. Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction. London: Palgrave.
Hall, S. 1996. Questions of Cultural Identity. London: Sage.
Heilmann, A., and M. Beetham. 2004. New Woman Hybridities: Feminity, Feminism and International Consumer Culture, 1880-1930. New York: Routledge.
Hunter, J. 2002. How to read Ulysses and why. New York: PeterLang.
Iball, H. 2020. Sarah Kane’s Blasted. London: Bloomsbury.
Johnsen, R. E. 2006. Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction. New York: Palgrave.
Johnson, E. 2015. Jean Rhys: twenty-first-century approaches. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Koegler, C. et al. 2021. Writing Brexit. Colonial Remains. London & New York: Routledge.
Korte, B. and L. Lojo. 2019. Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story. Cham: Palgrave.
Krajenbrink. M., and K. M. Quinn. 2009. Investigating Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.
Kushner, T. 2016. We Europeans?: mass-observation, ‘race’ and British identity in the twentieth century. London & New York: Routledge.
Lane, D. 2010. Contemporary British Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Latter, A. 2015. Late Modernism and The English Intellingencer: On the Poetics of Community. London: Bloomsbury.
Lee, A. 1990. Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction. London: Routledge.
Levenson, M. 1999. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Matterson, Stephen. 2023. “Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place”. The Review of English Studies, 74(313): 197-199.
Medina Casado, C. 2007. Poetas ingleses del siglo XX. Madrid: Síntesis.
Milian, C. 2017. “Extremely Latin, XOXO: notes on LatinX”, Cultural Dynamics 29(3): 121–140. DOI: 10.1177/0921374017727850.
Roe, S. & S. Sellers. 2000. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Roman-Velázquez, P. and J. Retis J. 2021. Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging. Latin Americans in London. Cham, Germany: Palgrave.
Scaggs, J. 2005. Crime Fiction. London & New York: Routledge.
Shaw, K. 2018. “BrexLit”, in Robert Eaglestone, Brexit and Literature. Critical and Cultural Responses. London & New York: Routledge, 15-30.
Shaw, K. 2019. “Refugee Fictions: Brexit and the Maintenance of Borders in the European Union”, in Laura Lojo & Barbara Korte, Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemprorary British Short Story. Cham: Routledge, 39-60.
Shaw, K. 2021 Brexlit: British literature and the European project. London: Bloomsbury.
Sheehan, S. 2009. Joyce’s Ulysses: a reader’s guide. London & New York: Continuum.
Sherry, V.B. 2004. James Joyce’s Ulysses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sierz, A. 2001. In-yer-face Theatre: British Drama Today. London: Faber.
Styan, J. L. 1983. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Taylor, V. E., and C. E. Winquist. 1998. Postmodernism: Critical Concepts. London: Routledge.
Taylor-Batty, M. 2008. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. London & New York: Continuum.
Thomasen, L. 2018. British Multiculturalism and The Politics of Representation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Uberoi, V. and T. Modood. 2015. Multiculturalism Rethought. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Vertovec, S. 2007. “Super-diversity and its implications”, Ethnic and Racial Studies 30(6): 1024–1054. DOI: 10.1080/01419870701599465.
VV.AA. 2014. Fight Back: Punk, Politics and Resistance. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
G01, G02, G04, G05, G06, E09, E10, E11, E13
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.
E09 - Knowledge of the main models and resources of literary/cultural research in the anglophone world.
E10 - Capacity to use the techniques used for the analysis of artistic and cultural texts 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.
E13 - Knowledge of the relationships between the main artistic and literary manifestations in the anglophone world.
Lectures will be devoted a close textual analysis of general aspects related to different literary movements in English. Essays, debates and presentations of selected texts and their mediations will also be completed over the different sessions.
The VIRTUAL CAMPUS that USC offers to assist the teaching-learning process will be used to upload the reading material for the course and to complete a number of exercises corresponding to the continuous assessment system.
Students can use their own electronic devices, such as laptops and/or tablets, in class.
The assessment system is based on the following norms and regulations:
-"Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” do 15 de xuño de 2011
-"Regulamento de asistencia a clase nas ensinanzas oficiais de grao e máster da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela” do 25 de novembro do 2024
-“Normativa de permanencia nas titulacións de grao e mestrado da USC” do 5 de xullo de 2012
-"Lei orgánica do sistema universitario" do 22 de marzo do 2023
Students will have to choose between:
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT which will involve individual presentations and academic work, active participation in class, and writing exercises in class
OR
FINAL EXAM (100%)
Students officially exempt from class attendance will have to sit the final exam in the official date.
Academic fraud will be penalised.
With only 14 classes to attend, private and individual study is paramount.
Total number of hours: 75
Onsite work time: 14
Individual work time: 61
Prior reading of the requisite texts and general awarenss of recommended bibliography.
Active participation in class is essential.
More detailed information about the subject is included in the "Guía Docente e Material Didáctico da asignatura" that the students can check in the Campus Virtual.
Maria Alonso Alonso
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- maria.alonso.alonso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | D04 |
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| 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | D04 |
| 05.20.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D04 |
| 05.20.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D04 |
| 07.01.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D04 |
| 07.01.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D04 |