COMENTARIO DE TEXTOS LITERARIOS EN LENGUA

INGLESA
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CONTENIDOS
UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO POSTSTRUCTURALIST THEORIES
It will include readings of a literary text, a theoretical chapter and analysis of extracts from
critical authors.
LITERARY TEXTS
 Dylan Thomas: Poem “A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in
London” (Barry, Appendix 2: pp.275-276). Self-assessment exercises.
CRITICAL AND LITERARY THEORY
 Readings from Barry: Chapter 3, “Post-structuralism and deconstruction”. Self-
assessment exercises.
CRITICAL AUTHORS
 ROLAND BARTHES (1915-1968). Extract from “The Death of the Author”
(1968). Self-assessment exercises.
 JACQUES DERRIDA (1930-2004). Extract from Of Grammatology (1967).
Self-assessment exercises.
(All these readings can be found in the Guide and Barry's book)

UNIT 2: INTRODUCTION TO NEW HISTORICISM

The Unit will include the reading of a literary text, a theoretical chapter and the analysis of
extracts from critical authors.
LITERARY TEXTS
 Elizabeth Bishop: Poem “Twelve O¿Clock News” (PDF document on the curso
virtual). Self-assessment exercises.
CRITICAL AND LITERARY THEORY
 Readings from Barry: Chapter 9, “New historicism and cultural criticism”. Self-
assessment exercises.
CRITICAL AUTHORS
 HAYDEN WHITE (b. 1928). Extract from “The Historical Text as Literary
Artifact” (1978). Self-assessment exercises.
 STEPHEN GREENBLATT (b. 1943). Extract from “Introduction
to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance” (1988). Self-assessment
exercises.
(All these readings can be found in the Guide and Barry's book)

UNIT 3: INTRODUCTION TO FEMINISM AND GENDER

The Unit will include the reading of a literary text, a theoretical chapter and the analysis of
extracts from critical authors.
LITERARY TEXTS
  The Awakening, by Kate Chopin . Self-assessment exercises.
 "In the Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop

CRITICAL AND LITERARY THEORY

 Readings from Barry, Chapter 6 and 7 “Feminist Criticism” “Lesbian/Gay Criticism”.

Self-assessment exercises.

CRITICAL AUTHORS

 SANDRA GILBERT (b. 1936) and SUSAN GUBAR (b. 1944). Extract from The
Madwoman in the Attic (1979). Self-assessment exercises.
 ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929). Extract from “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian
Continuum” (1980). Self- assessment exercises.
 BARBARA SMITH (b. 1946). Extract from “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism”
(1977). Self-assessment exercises.

(All the readings are included in the course except the NOVEL)

UNIT 4: INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES

The Unit will include the reading of a literary text, a theoretical chapter and the analysis of
extracts from critical authors.
LITERARY TEXTS

 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899, 1902). Self-assessment exercises.

CRITICAL AND LITERARY THEORY

 Readings from Barry, Chapter 10, “Postcolonial criticism”. Self-assessment

exercises.

CRITICAL AUTHORS

 CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930). Extract from “An Image of Africa: Racism in
Conrad¿s Heart of Darkness”(1975). Self-assessment exercises.
 EDWARD SAID (1935-2003). Extract from Orientalism (1978). Self-assessment
exercises

(All the readings are included in the course except the NOVEL)