102501 Introducción a la Literatura Inglesa - Asignatura obligatoria del primer curso de Grado en Estudios Ingleses

Curso académico 2023-2024

Profesores Jorge Diego Sánchez (parte teórica) y Lucía Bausela Buccianti (parte práctica)

Groups with surnames from A to H (gr. 5), and with surnames from P to Z (gr. 6.2).

Lessons and Classrooms:

Group with surnames A-H (also called group 5):

- Mondays 16.15-18.00 (17.10-18.00 with Lucía Bausela Buccianti) and Thursdays 16.15-18. Lessons will be in H-1 (in the “Hospedería” building).

Group with surnames P-Z (also called group 6.2):

- Tuesdays 16.00-18.00 (16.00-17.00 with Lucía Bausela Buccianti, 17.15-18.00 with Jorge), Wednesdays 18.15-19.00, and Thursdays 18.15-19.00.
Lessons will be in A-13 (in the “Anayita” building).

Contact Details and Office Hours:

Jorge Diego Sánchez: jorgediegosanchez@usal.es –Mondays from 9.15 to 12.00 (Seminario 221 Palacio de Anaya).
You can book another tutoría sending an email (bear in mind that this meeting would take place at Dpt of English Studies, Office 1.6)

Lucía Bausela Buccianti: bauselabuccianti@usal.es - Mondays & Tuesdays: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. / Wednesdays: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (Sala Becarios 2, Placentinos
building, 3rd floor).
You must send me an email before coming to the office in which you state the purpose of the meeting and when you wish to come over. Bear in mind that most often certain matters
can be resolved via email. However, I will not reply to emails which ask for information that can be found in the syllabus. Meetings can be scheduled at a different time—feel free to
ask.

Assessment options:

There are two ways of following this module: Continuous Assessment (attendance to lessons is mandatory) and Non-Continuous Assessment (attendance to
lessons is NOT mandatory).

How will we know what assessment option you chose? For the theoretical part, you do not need to tell Jorge. You just need to do what each plan requires
Continuous Assessment: You must attend the lessons and show a commitment with the course. Being committed means that you turn up for the lesson
as AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT who (1) has read the readings WHEN SCHEDULED AND NOT LATER, (2) participates in class discussions and questions and (3)
takes part in the ACTIVITIES proposed by the lecturers. You need to read BEFORE coming to class and be prepared for each lesson as per the instructions in
the Weekly Syllabus. If you follow this assessment method, your final grade will come from:

● Lessons with Jorge Diego Sánchez (75%): 25 % final exam, 10% (test/s on) Review of readings, 15% exercises on cinema adaptations, 15%
creative writing activity, 10% active engagement in class
● Lessons with Lucía Bausela Buccianti (25%): please see the Studium site for the practical part.

If you fail this subject as part of continuous assessment, you cannot sit for the Convocatoria oficial de exámenes in January. You will have to sit for the exam
on Convocatoria Extraordinaria in June 2021.

Non-Continuous Assessment: You don’t need to attend the lessons, but you can turn up and have an active engagement. You do not sit for the
exams/tasks required for continuous assessment. Your final grade will come EXCLUSIVELY from the official exam in January which is announced on the
official page of Facultad de Filología (please see the end of this document for dates). If you fail the Convocatoria Ordinaria-Convocatoria Primera (January),
you can opt for a resit in the Segunda Convocatoria - Convocatoria Extraordinaria (June/July).

This final exam will be split into three parts:

● 75% Critical attitudes, contextualisation of works and authors (as per Jorge Diego Sánchez’s instructions and notes)

● 25% Practical analysis (as taught and explained by Lucía Bausela Buccianti)
 WEEKLY SYLLABUS (essential for continuous assessment students – but also very helpful as orientation for those following non continuous assessment).
Some contents are subject to be modified, reduced or amplified. In the case of a health emergency, lessons, activities and submissions will be facilitated via
Studium and appropriate tools. Some bank holidays appear on this syllabus. However, there might be more changes according to the official calendar.

Week Topic Contents Read before the Specific remarks for To do list Workshop Sessions
week (MANDATORY classes with Jorge
(for Theoretical (as per in the Ficha with Lucía Bausela Buccianti
READINGS) Diego Sánchez
Lessons) de Asignatura)
1 (Sep 18-23) First Literatures in Poetry in Old and Watch Robert Warm-up your Writing about Reading: The
English Middle English EGGERS’ The North creativity (and Literary Essay
Man (2022) stretch your mind)
(available on Amazon
Prime and EXTRA Towards an analysis of medieval poetry
in English
SOURCES)

Homework for next week: Write Notes

as you read “The General Prologue”

2 (Oct 2-5) Intr. to Medieval Historical Chaucer’s “Prologue” Bring a printed Good Writers Are Great
Literature in English Contextualisation: to Canterbury Tales or pdf copy of Readers: Organising your Notes
Language the Magna
Why is it in English?
Carta 1215 to
Which Englishes? Class discussion: “The General
class (on
Prologue”
Studium)

- Romances
Homework for next week: Bring
- Alliterative Revival definitions of “Romance,”
“Alliteration,” “Narrative Poem,” and
- Geoffrey Chaucer “Dramatic Poem”

Medieval Theatres
3 (Oct 9-14) Intr. to the Historical Macbeth (fragments) What Is This All About?: Topic
Literature of the Contextualisation: Sentences and Paragraph
Renaissance in Stories Making Structure
English Language History The Tempest (start)
*No class on (UK context)
Oct 12
- The Presence of Class discussion on The Tempest
Interludes

- University Wits Homework for next week: Bring in

notes and highlighted passages of The
- William Tempest
Shakespeare and
Ben Jonson
4 (Oct 16-20) Intr. to the Poetry and poets of The Tempest (FULL) Watch Julie Taymor Practice 1: Argumentative Paragraphs:
Literature of the the Renaissance and Peter Review of Explaining and Exemplifying
Renaissance in Greenaway’s readings (10%)
English Language adaptations of The
(UK context) Shakespeare’s The Tempest A literary analysis on The Tempest
Tempest

Homework for next week: Bring in

notes and highlighted passages of
-FILM WEEK- Paradise Lost

5 (Oct 23-26) Intr. to the Cavalier and Selection of poems Practice 2: Literary evidence: Quoting
Literature of the Metaphysical poets Adapting Literary Texts
Jacobean period Literature to
- John Donne
and late Milton’s Paradise Screen
Renaissance - John Milton Lost (fragments) Discussing Paradise Lost
(15% final
grade)
Homework for next week: Bring in
notes and highlighted passages of
Oroonoko
6 (Oct 30-Nov Intr. to the Historical Behn’s Oroonoko Read Fragments “A Very Particular Set of Skills”:
3rd) Literature of the Contextualisation: from Cavendish’s Comparing and Contrasting
Restoration in What and which The Blazing World
English Language values are restored?
*No class on A critical reading of Oroonoko
Nov 1

-Heroic drama
Homework for next week: Bring in
-The Theatres of notes and highlighted passages of
Restoration Blake’s poems

-Aphra Behn and John

Dryden
7 (Nov 6-12) Intr. to the Historical Selection of Writings Read “A Modest In-Class Writing Test: An
Literature of the Contextualisation: Proposal” Analytical and Argumentative
Long Eighteenth What is Being Classic Paragraph (10% final grade)
*No classes Century and English? -Blake
with Jorge
-Pope and the
Graveyard Poets
Homework for next week: Study the
-The Novelists definitions of ‘Romanticism’,
‘Englishness’, ‘Classic’, ‘Classical’, and
-The Journalists ‘Imagery’ and write them in your own
Historical Context: words
What is so Romantic
about Factories?

8 (Nov 13-17) Intr. to the Historical Listen to John Beyond the Topic Sentence:
Literature of Contextualisation: Tavener’s Thesis Statements
Romanticism What is Being Classic composition of “The
and English? Lamb” and Britten’s
CD (all uploaded on
-Pope and the
Studium) Analysing Romantic poetry
Graveyard Poets
 -The Novelists

-The Journalists
Historical Context:
Homework for next week: None! This
What is so Romantic time you get a free pass.
about Factories?

Dismantling the
Stereotypes on
Imagery: W Blake

Writings and Writers

9 (Nov 20-24) Literatures of Dismantling Romantic Rendering the Creative Theme: The Dos and Don’ts
Romanticism in Writings and Writers Romanticism: The Workshop
English case of the series
Taboo (watch first Romanticism and Critical Thinking
episode) Practice 2.
Creative writing
activity (a micro- Homework for next week: Do the
theatre play; 15% assigned tasks on thesis statements as
of the final grade they will be announced in class

10 (Nov 27- ORAL Creative Making a Good First Impression:

Dec 1st) PRESENTATIONS Workshop Introductory Paragraphs

The Victorian Age: General Overview

Homework for next week: Review the

 notes on essay writing

11 (Dec 4-7) ORAL Dickens’ Christmas In the End, Does it Even

PRESENTATIONS Carol Matter?: Concluding Paragraphs
and Intr. to
*Bank Literatures of
Holidays on Victorian era Analysing A Christmas Carol
Dec 6 & Dec 8

Homework for next week: Do the task

*It is likely which will be assigned to you in class
that there will
not be class
with Jorge on
Dec 4th

12 (Dec 11-15) Intr. to the Historical FINAL EXAM (Part And Now for Something
Literatures of the Contextualisation: taught by Jorge): 25 % Completely Different: Grading
Victorian Era Literary Essays
-The GREAT Victorian
poets

-The GREAT Victorian General review

novelists

-And what is there Homework for next week: Review and

behind the “Great”? practice for the test!

13 (Dec 18-21) Intr. to the The opening of In-Class Writing Test: A Literary
Literatures of the Modernisms beyond Essay (10% final grade)
20th c in English
Language Modernity

-Modernists Writers

-Modernisms in
English