COMENTARIO

DE TEXTOS
LITERARIOS EN LENGUA INGLESA
Prof. Elisa Roca Burns
eliroca@palma.uned.es
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SEPTIEMBRE Acogida nuevos estudiantes Grado y Acceso: a partir del 28 de septiembre
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unit 2)
FECHAS DE EMISIN DE LISTADOS Y FIRMA DE ACTAS DE CALIFICACIONES CURSO 2017/18
Convocatoria de febrero. Entrega de listados: 6 de marzo de 2018. Entrega de actas: 14 de marzo de 2018.Entrega
de actas TFG: 16 de marzo de 2018.
Convocatoria de junio. Entrega de listados: 28 de junio de 2018. Entrega de actas: 6 de julio de 2018. Entrega de
actas TFG: 9 de julio de 2018. Entrega de listados de Acceso para mayores de 25/45 aos: 22 de junio de

2018
Convocatoria de septiembre. Entrega de listados: 27 de septiembre de 2018. Entrega de actas: 5 de octubre de
2018. Entrega de actas TFG: 8 de octubre de 2018.
 PREVIOUS CONSIDERATIONS
IntroducVon to criVcal theory and close
reading. PracVse literary comment.
B2 English level (ingls instrumental IV).
In Curso Virtual: Read the gua de
estudio (working plan); check out the
glossary and guras retricas, the forum,
FAQs, previous exams and PECS (also in
Calatayud);
 For every unit
Read the corresponding chapter in Barry (theory).
Read the literary texts.
Read the study guide and do the self-assessment
exercises.
Read, listen or watch the complementarystudy
material.
Look for the key terms of the unit in the glossary list;
and check rethorical devices.
Check the debate room and parVcipate in the forum.
 SYLLABUS
UNIT 1: IntroducVon to Poststructuralist
theories.
UNIT 2: IntroducVon to New Historicism.
UNIT 3: IntroducVon to Feminism and
Gender.
UNIT 4: IntroducVon to Ethnic and Post-
Colonial studies.
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.
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 OClock 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.
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.

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.
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
Conrads Heart of Darkness(1975). Self-assessment exercises.
EDWARD SAID (1935-2003). Extract from Orientalism (1978). Self-
assessment exercises
 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Introduc6on to cri6cal and literary theory:
BARRY, Peter (2009), Beginning Theory. An Introduc3on to
Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester UP.

Cri6cal texts
Brief extracts from the following literary and criVcal theorists:
Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Hayden White, Stephen
Greenblal, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Adrienne Rich,
Barbara Smith, Chinua Achebe, Edward Said. They will be
included in the Units.
Literary texts
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Penguin edition.
Dylan Thomas, A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a
child in London (In Barry,Beginning Theory, Appendix)
Elizabeth Bishop poems: Twelve OClock News, In the
Waiting Room (Included in virtual course)
CONRAD, Joseph. Heart of Darkness (1899, 1902). This
is widely available free on the internet.

The Study Guides for UNITS 1-4, included in the virtual

course are essential: they provide you with all the material
you need to successfully complete the course: critical texts,
study materials, self-assessment-exercises and answers.
The book by PETER BARRY provides reasonably accessible
introductions to literary and critical theory together with
practical examples of close critical readings of literary texts. It
will be used in conjunction with the rest of the study material.
 EVALUATION SYSTEM

2 OPTIONS:
A) Take the exam only
Maximum total grade: 8

B) Exam (80%) + PEC (20%)
Maximum total grade: 10

 EXAM
22nd January (11.30) / 5th February (18.30)

2 parts:
A) Test: 8 mulVple choice quesVons (a, b, c, d).
0,5 each (total: 4 points)
5/8 quesVons (min. to get the next part marked)

B) Text analysis (3 quesVons): contextualizaVon;
form and content; criVcism.
(Total: 4 points)

 PEC
To inlcude the PEC in your global
grade you need to pass the exam.
Structure of the PEC = structure of
exam.
Units: 1 and 2.
Aprox. date: 11th December.