New Trends in the Literature of the English-Speaking Countries
Master's Programme in English Studies: Professional Applications & Intercultural Communication
Academic staff
Course code:
70482116
Type:
Compulsory – Teaching and Research Itinerary (Module 2)
Approach to Education
Blended-learning (25%)
Term
Second
Classroom
Humanities Building II, classroom 12
Teaching period
7 – 28 May 2025
Teaching times
Wednesdays 16.00 – 21.00 (alternative days)
Thursdays 16.00 – 21.00 (alternative days)
Teaching guide
New Trends in the Literature of the English-Speaking Countries
Description
This course is focused and sequenced around the presentation of each type of production and selected authors, as well as the study of their most relevant literary features. The second step is related to a guided praxis of representative literary works (or parts of them), so that the student acquires the capacities to appreciate the literary texts and its adjacent components.
The most important goal is to offer students access to literary works and most relevant authors of the chronological and historical period covered in this Master's subject: twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century; as well as the advance within the knowledge concerning the current age (periods, movements, genres and authors) and the knowledges concerning the methodology of the literary analysis applied to English texts of new literatures in English language.
Another goal lies in the fact of continuing with the learning of the studied subjects and the rest of the subjects of the Master's degree related to English language, delivered in the initial stages of these studies and which opened the door to a period where the study language and literature requires specific knowledge and must assume a specialization.
The course is divided into three thematic blocks:
Block I
‣ Historical, social and cultural context of the new society. The Literature of the Commonwealth
Block II
‣ African literature written in English: Wole Soyinka, J.M. Coetzee (praxis: Waiting for the Barbarians)
‣ Indian and Caribbean literature written in English: A.K. Ramanujan, Derek Walcott
‣ Australian literature written in English: Les Murray, New Australian Writing
‣ Canadian literature written in English: Alice Munroe (praxis: Walker Brothers Cowboys), Dione Brand, New
Canadian writing
Block III
‣ Hybridization, globalization and literary production in English
‣ Market and art in the new literary production in English
New Trends in the Literature of the English-Speaking Countries
