Introduction to British and Irish 20th-century literature. A course in 28 sessions Gutiérrez Sumillera, Rocío Literatura inglesa Literatura irlandesa Literatura inglesa IV The course aims to provide second-year L2 undergraduate students majoring/minoring in English with a survey of the literature (prose fiction, poetry, and drama) produced by late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century British and Irish authors. The course starts with a selection of works intended to explore the notions of empire and colonialism: a selection of essays by Joseph Chamberlain and J. A. Hobson, poems by Claude McKay and Louise Bennett, a short story by George Orwell, and Joseph Conrad’s short novel Heart of Darkness (1899). H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) functions as an introduction of sorts to a selection of World War I poetry by Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen. Modernism in prose fiction and poetry is then examined through the study of James Joyce’s short story “The Dead” (1914), Virginia Woolf’s essays “Modern Fiction” (1921) and “A Room of One’s Own” (1929), and through extracts from Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway (1925), as well as through an analysis of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) and his review of Joyce’s Ulysses, “Ulysses, Order, and Myth” (1923). A study of the literature written during and in the aftermath of World War II ensues through the analysis of a selection of poems by W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell, and Ted Hughes, of George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945), and selected chapters from Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and through Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame (1957). The literature produced in the second half of the twentieth century is examined first through a selection of poems by Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, and Thom Gunn, published between the late 1950s and the early 1990s, and, in addition, through a short story and a play: Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” (1963), and Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls (1982). The course concludes with a session on contemporary poets John Agard, Paul Muldoon, Carol Ann Duffy, and Alice Oswald. 2024-02-13T07:21:07Z 2024-02-13T07:21:07Z 2022 info:eu-repo/semantics/book https://hdl.handle.net/10481/89116 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional