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”.
Basic Bibliography
Besserman, Lawrence, ed. The Challenge of Periodization: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives. Routledge, 2016.
Bluemel, Kristin, ed. Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Migrant Metaphors. 2nd. Ed. Oxford: O.U.P., 2005.
Bradbury, Malcolm and James MacFarlane. Modernism. London: Penguin, 1991.
Brooker, Peter and Andrew Thacker, eds. Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Cahoone, Lawrence, ed. From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Carter, Ronald. The Routledge History of Literature in English Britain and Ireland. London: Routledge, 1997.
Cockin, K. and Jago Morrison, eds., The Post-War British Literature Handbook. London & N.Y.: Continuum, 2010.
Currant, Stuart. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Ellmann, Maud. The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Sigmund Freud. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2010.
Gasiorek, Andrzej. Post-War British Fiction: Realism and After. London: Edward Arnold, 1995.
Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2004.
Levenson, Michael, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1999.
Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. London: Macmillan, 1995.
Ruland, Richard and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism. A History of American Literature. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. London: Virago, 1982.
Travers, Martin. An Introduction to Modern European Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism. London: Macmillan, 1998.
Underwood, Ted. Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies. Standford University Press, 2015.
Van den Akker, Robin, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen, eds. Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth After Postmodernism. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
Warren, Joyce W. and Margaret Dickie, Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
Weir, David. Decadence and the Making of Modernism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
Further Reading
Almagro Jiménez, Manuel. A Dust of Words: Novela y Postmodernidad. Sevilla: Arcibel Editores, 2010.
Amigoni, David. Victorian Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Brown Tindall, George and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History, vol. 2. New York: Norton, 1996.
Shail, Andrew. The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism. New York: Routledge, 2012
Woodward-Smith, Elizabeth. Diccionario de referencias culturales en la literatura inglesa. A Coruña: Universidade de A Coruña, Servicio de Publicacións, 2002.
Young, Tory. Studying English Literature: A Practical Guide. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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.
Two types of assessment are offered: continuous assessment and final exam. First year students will join by default the continuous assessment system. Class attendance is compulsory in order to join the continuous assessment system, which will be organised as follows:
Individual presentations and academic work (30%)
Active participation in class (40%)
Writing exercises in class (30%)
Those students not attending a minimum of 80% of teaching hours will not be able to join the continuous assessment system and will have to sit the final exam in the official date. Missing classes will not be justified under any circumstance and will be considered within the 20% margin that this teaching guide proposes. The continuous assessment system will only be applicable for the May/June call.
Students officially exempt from class attendance will have to sit the final exam in the official date.
If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, article 16 in "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will apply.
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: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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| 17:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | D04 |
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| 16:00-17:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | D04 |
| 17:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | D04 |
| 05.21.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D04 |
| 07.02.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D04 |