English as an Intercultural Vehicle: Literature and Society
Master's Programme in English Studies: Professional Applications & Intercultural Communication
Academic staff
Course code:
70481105
Type:
Compulsory – Foundation courses (Module 1)
Approach to Education
Blended-learning (25%)
Term
First
Classroom
Humanities Building II, classroom 12
Teaching period
25 October – 10 November 2023
Teaching times
Wednesdays 16.00 – 18.15
Thursdays 16.00 – 18.15
Fridays 16.00 – 18.15
Teaching guide
English as an Intercultural Vehicle: Literature and Society
Description
The course is structured around the sociology of the literature which focuses on a structural approach external to the systematic study of production and consumption of the literature in society.
To complete the process and present sociology through literature, this course introduces the reading of different works of fiction that serve as an example of questions in the sociology of literature. Aside from the above, writing activities assigned to the student offer means to “evaluate” some of the ideas about authors, literary styles and the consumption of literature. The analysis of these texts fosters the active learning with the active participation of the students on the role of the sociologist in literature
The course is divided into the following thematic areas:
‣ Analytical strategies: Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces
‣ H.G. Wells: the principles of science fiction applied to society
‣ Literature, culture and the canon: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World – Dystopian philosophies
‣ Forces and relations of production: George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm
‣ From modern society to brave new worlds: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Ray Bradbury's
Fahrenheit 451
‣ Novels into movies: Brave New World, Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451; Ulysses (1967, 2000)
‣ Avant-garde and new aesthetics of the contemporary age: James Joyce's Ulysses
‣ The aesthetics of poetry in society: twentieth-century poetry in English (extracts and poems from some of
the greatest contemporary poets.
English as an Intercultural Vehicle: Literature and Society
