European Literature II (20168)
Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd
Term: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125
Teaching language or languages: catalan and spanish
Teaching Staff: M. Pfeiffer
1. Presentation of the subject
The aim of this subject is to study the main lines of European literatures during revolutions (18th and 19th centuries), with the support of readings, commentaries and the elaboration of an essay.
2. Competences to be attained
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General competences |
Specific Competences |
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1 Instrumental: •- Reading of literary texts and literary criticism •- Structuring and synthesizing topics •- Identification of the main concepts in a text •- Make oral and written summaries •- Make questions and commentaries about a text •- Use of resources (books, magazines, databases, etc.) •- Write an essay 2 Interpersonal •- Have an active participation in debates •- Teamwork to prepare oral presentations and written assignments 3 Systemic •- Achieve specific knowledge about the European literature's history in the 18th and 19th centuries •- Integrating knowledge within other subjects (European Tradition Literature I), and disciplines: history, art and thought
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1 Historical reflection •- Identifying and characterising the main literary movements of the period •- Integrating Romanticism in current aesthetic debates •- Understanding the mentality change in the European society around 1800 •- Integrating knowledge at present 2 Literary criticism •- Identifying differences and similarities among several literatures (German, English, French...) •- Identifying differences and similarities among several literary genres (novel, poetry, fragment, drama, etc.) •- Integrating literary topics in other arts ( image-text relationship)
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3. Contents
Block 1:
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Concepts |
Procedures |
Attitude |
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The return of nature and the genius |
Reading Goethe:
Shakespeare Prometheus Werther |
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Block 2:
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Concepts |
Procedures |
Attitude |
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The subject and the interior
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Reading Schlegel and Novalis :
Fragments Heinrich von Ofterdingen |
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Block 3:
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Concepts |
Procedures |
Attitude |
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Sublime and Melancholy
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Reading Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Kant
Songs of Innocence/Experience Lyrical Ballads Ode to the Westwind Beauty and the Sublime |
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Block 4:
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Concepts |
Procedures |
Attitude |
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Medusa beauty
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Reading Hoffmann, Poe and Baudelaire (and Goya)
The Sandman The Tell-Tale-Heart The Philosophy of Composition Les fleurs du mal |
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Block 5:
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Concepts |
Procedures |
Attitude |
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City and crowd
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Reading Poe and Baudelaire
The Man of the Crowd Les fleurs du mal |
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Block 6:
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Concepts |
Procedures |
Attitude |
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Return to reality |
Reading Flaubert and Büchner
Un coeur simple Woyzeck |
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*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.
4. Assessment
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5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
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5.2. Complementary bibliography
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5.3. Teaching resources
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6. Metodology
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7. Planning of activities
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