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GUIA DOCENT / COURSE SYLLABUS
Practical Criticism Applied to English
Literature (35334 - Group B)
1. GENERAL INFORMATION / FITXA IDENTIFICATIVA
Code: 35334 Subject : Crítica pràctica de la literatura anglesa Cycle: First ECTS Credits: 6 Academic Year: 2014-15 (Group B)
Degree English Studies
Centre: Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació
Year: 1
Term: 2 Module : Introduction to English literature studies
Type : Compulsory
Lecturers: Department: Jesús Tronch: [email protected] Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya Terriann Jeffrey: [email protected]
2. SUMMARY / RESUM
This course has two basic components and purposes. A ‘critical’ component aims to guide students in the practical application to literary texts in English of a variety of critical approaches and of key concepts in the study of language, literature and culture. Emphasis is placed in helping students develop the critical skills needed to understand and provide a reasoned response to texts in English in relation to issues such as gender relations, social stratification, ideological censure or religious and philosophical questions. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” will be used throughout the course as reference texts on which different approaches will be applied. (See content units 1 to 5). A ‘technical’ component aims to guide students in scholarly habits and in the use of resources for English Studies (including new technologies of information and communication) in order to locate and synthesize information (bibliographies, databases) and to present their own ideas (papers, projects, oral and audiovisual presentations) following citation conventions and avoiding plagiarism. (See content units 6 to 9)
3. PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE/ CONEIXEMENTS PREVIS 1. Restrictions 2. Recommended previous knowledge English at B1 level. 4. COMPETENCES / COMPETÈNCIES
- The ability to assimilate knowledge in the field of linguistics and literary and cultural studies based on specialized textbooks and also comprising aspects of the most recent advances in the field. (Competence 1)
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- The ability to clearly define and defend one’s points of view and to resolve problems within the area of linguistic and literary and cultural studies. (Competence 3)
- The ability to gather and interpret relevant data in order to make judgements concerning scientific, social or ethical issues with an appropriate respect for the defence of Human Rights. (Competence 4)
- The development of an ethical approach to issues such as gender equality, equal opportunity, democratic values, non-violence, environmental and sustainability problems as well as awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity. (Competence 7)
- The ability to find, handle and synthesize bibliographical information and information gathered from databases and other electronic tools, including the Internet. (Competence 9)
- The acquisition of communicative and social competence in the English language (listening and reading comprehension and written and oral expression, communicative interaction and mediation, including grammatical and stylistic correction) approaching the B1+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. (Competence 14)
- Familiarity with the various approaches and methods in literary theory and criticism and how they can be applied. (Competence 22)
- Knowledge of the various techniques and methods of analysis of literary texts in English and the ability to apply them to a variety of texts. (Competence 26)
- The development of the critical ability to characterize, explain, interpret and assess literary texts in English and to relate them to their respective literary and historical contexts, and to apply this ability within a comparative perspective. (Competence 27)
- A familiarity with the theoretical premises and applications of textual criticism and scholarly editing. (Competence 29)
- The ability to use tools, programs and software designed specifically for the study of the English language and its literatures. (Competence 30) 5. LEARNING OUTCOMES/ RESULTATS D'APRENENTATGE
Having successfully completed the course, students will be able to
- explain the basic theoretical premises, aims and methods of the types of literary criticism covered in this course,
- synthesize how a literary text seen in class can be variously interpreted from the critical perspectives covered in this course,
- formulate questions on a literary text from several critical approaches
- apply the critical concepts and methods of some of the approaches seen in class to a literary text in English,
- explain the critical approach(es) used in a given piece of literary criticism,
- write a stylistic commentary or ‘practical criticism’ essay
- write a well-structured essay using conventional academic English at B1 level,
- find reliable sources of information for their work,
- show the origins of the ideas employed in their writing by referencing their sources according to standard styles,
- organize the list of works cited in their essays using the format and conventions of standard referencing styles,
- apply the information and communication technologies used in class to their own work 6. CONTENTS / DESCRIPCIÓ DE CONTINGUTS
- Pre-critical response to the selected literary work(s). Critical approaches: overview and classifications.
- Text-oriented approaches: close reading as a critical tool in the study of language, form and structure in literary works in English. Description: practising criticism as informed by formalist approaches (New Criticism, Bakhtin’s dialogic criticism), structuralist and semiotic literary criticism, and poststructuralism (deconstruction).
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Reading of additional material / Lectura del material complementari 10 Preparation for assessment activities / Preparació d’activitats d’avaluació 25 Preparation for theory-based classes / Preparació de classes de teoria 20 Preparation for practical and problem-based classes / Preparació de classes pràctiques i de problemes
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Problem-solving and case studies / Resolució de casos pràctics Online questionnaires / Resolució de qüestionaris en línia TOTAL NON-CONTACT HOURS 90 TOTAL WORKLOAD 150 Total crèdits ECTS 6
8. TEACHING METHODOLOGY / METODOLOGIA DOCENT
The course seeks to give more emphasis to practice than to theory, and to proceed from examining practical cases (of critical methods applied to specific texts, of real academic essays) to understanding theoretical frameworks, critical concepts and guidelines to scholarly writing. Theory-based classes: lectures and case studies (developing competences 1, 14, 22, 26, 27 and
Lectures will focus on clarification and discussion of key concepts and techniques rather than on exposition of matter students can find in the dossiers and bibliography. Consequently students are expected to work on assigned tasks (reading sections from course dossiers, answering questions set in advance) before attending class.
Practical classes: problem solving and case studies (developing competences 3, 4, 7, 9, 14, 22, 26 and 27).
Other activities: tutorials for orientation in preparing papers and projects
9. LEARNING ASSESSMENT / AVALUACIÓ
- A paper (written in English) [45%] on a topic assigned by the instructors. See details below.
- An exam or test on the contents of the critical component [35%]
- A stylistic explication or ‘practical criticism’ essay on a short literary text or fragment [20%]
A final average mark will only be given if all these assessment activities are marked above 4 (in a scale from 0.1 to 10, where the top mark is 10 and a pass is 5). IMPORTANT: Plagiarism will not be tolerated; it is a serious academic offence and therefore will be penalized by failing the course.
The assessment may be completed by other activities (assigned tasks, portfolio or dossier, interviews at tutorials).
The final mark will take very much into account the active involvement of students in the course, both in class and in tutorials, and their creativity.
Assessment criteria for the paper or project
- adequate organization of concepts, argumentation and writing skills,
- originality and relevance,
- management of delivery terms..
- good research for bibliography and information,
- proper documentation,
- avoidance of plagiarism
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Assessment criteria for the stylistic commentary:
- dilucidation, and adequate expression, of the meaning(s) and theme(s) of the text
- effective explanation of the way the text’s meaning and effect are conveyed through its linguistic choices
- discussion of how the poem’s prosody contributes to its communicative purpose
- explanation of how the use of types of narrators and of focalization condition the unfolding of narrative 10. REFERENCES / REFERÈNCIES
10.1 Basic references ‘Critical Approaches’, VirtuaLit Interactice Poetry Tutorial. Website. Bedford/St Martin’s. <http:// bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/critical.html> Guerin, W. L. et alli. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Lunsford, Andrea A. The St. Martin’s Handbook. 6th edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s. <http:// bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook7e/#t_623495____> Pope, Rob. The English Studies Book. Routledge, 1998. Oshima, Alice, and Ann Hogue. Writing Academic English. London: Longman, 2006. McCormack, Joan and John Slaght. English for Academic Study: Extended Writing & Research Skills. Reading : Garnet, 2009. Murfin, Ross and S. M. Ray. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2009. Peck, J. and M. Coyle. Practical Criticism. London: Macmillan, 1995. Whitla, William. The English Handbook. A Guide to Literary Studies. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell,
10.2 Complementary references
Works on critical approaches and literary theory: Green, Keith and Jill LeBihan. Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook. London: Routledge, 1996. Hawthorn, J. Studying the novel. London: Arnold, 2001. Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. 2nd^ ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. Peck, John, and Martin Coyle. How to Study a Poet. London: Palgrave, 1988. Peck, John, and Martin Coyle. How to Study a Shakespeare Play. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1995. Selden, Raman, et al. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. London: Prentice Hall, 1997. Selden, Raman. Practising Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989.
Dictionaries, glossaries, and other reference works:
Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford UP, 1990. Coyle, Martin, ed. Encyclopaedia of Literature and Criticism. London: Routledge, 1991. Harmon, William and C. Hugh Holman. A Literature Handbook. Upper Saddle, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. Fowler, Roger, ed. A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms. London and New York: Routledge, 1987. Preminger, Alex, and T.V.F. Brogan, eds. The New Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
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de Grazia, Margreta. “Hamlet” Without Hamlet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Edwards, Philip, ed. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. New York: Cambridge UP, 1985. Gibson, Rex. Hamlet. Cambridge Student Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
Greenblatt, Stephen. “[Introduction to] Hamlet.” The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition. Gen. ed. Stephen Greenblatt. 2nd ed. Vol 2. New York: W. W. Norton,
- 103-115. Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. Guerin, W. L. et alli. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Hapgood. Robert, ed. Hamlet. Shakespeare in Production. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Harris, Laurie Lanzen, ed. Shakespearean Criticism. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1984. Hibbard, G.R., ed. Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. Oxford Shakespeare Series. New York: Oxford UP, 1987. Jenkins, Harold, ed. Hamlet. The New Arden Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 1982. Kinney, Arthur, ed. “Hamlet”: New Critical Essays. London: Routledge, 2002. Kliman, Bernice W. "Hamlet". Film, Television, and Audio Performance. London: Associated University Press, 1988. Kott, Jan. “Hamlet of the Mid-Century.” Shakespeare, Our Contemporary. Trans. Boleslaw Taborski. Doubleday & Company, 1965. 51-65. Rpt. in Harris, Shakespearean Criticism. Showalter, Elaine. "Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism". Ed. Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman. Shakespeare and the Question of Theory. London: Routledge, 1985. Reprinted in: Ed. Martin Coyle. Hamlet: New Casebooks. Macmillan, 1992. Reprinted in: S. L. Wofford, ed. William Shakespeare: Hamlet. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism. Boston: Bedford/St Martin's Press, 1994. 220-40. Smith, Peter, and Nigel Wood, eds. Hamlet: Theory in Practice. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1996. Smith, Rebeca. "A Heart Cleft in Twain: the Dilemma of Shakespeare's Gertrude". Ed. Martin Coyle. Hamlet: New Casebooks. Macmillan, 1992. Spencer, T.J.B., ed. Hamlet. The Penguin Shakespeare. Introduction Anne Barton. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1980. Spurgeon, Caroline 1935. Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted in Harris, Shakespearean Criticisim. Vol 1. Thompson, Ann, and Neil Taylor ed. Hamlet. The New Arden Shakespeare. London: Thomson Learning, 2006. Tronch-Pérez, Jesús, ed. A Synoptic Hamlet: A Critical Synoptic Edition of the Second Quarto/ and First Folio texts of Hamlet. València: Sederi: Universitat de València, 2002. Werstine, Paul. “The Textual Mystery of Hamlet.” Shakespeare Quaterly 39 (1998): 1-26.
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Instructions for the critical essay
- 35334 Practical Criticism (2014-2015) Group B – Terriann Jeffrey
Topic assignment: According to your surname in the table below, you are assigned a topic related to the screen adaptations of Hamlet directed by Michael Almereyda (1997) and by Gregory Doran (2006). These versions, together with the critical edition of the play you are using, will constitute your basic primary sources for your paper. Essay outline: Once you are familiarized with your primary and secondary sources, send an email to Terriann Jeffery ([email protected]) with an outline of your essay, including a specific title of your essay, other sources you may have found, and question(s) you are going to address in your essay. Deadline for the outline and title: 27 March 2015 First version of your essay: Submit a stapled printout of a complete first version of your essay by 29 April 2015 to Jesús Tronch in the classroom or in his postbox (6 th^ floor, English and German Department). Please do not use folders, plastic or otherwise, just the stapled sheets. Please note that you are asked to write about specific performances of Hamlet , so you are expected to comment on issues and features that are peculiar to these productions and not only to the “general” Hamlet one can imagine from the critical editions. Second / Definitive version of your essay: Submit your definitive essay before 25 May 2015 , both by uploading it to Tasks/ Aula Virtual and by handing in a hardcopy replica (together with your first version).
Requirements:
- Length: 1000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography)
- Document your essay by consulting at least five secondary sources: at least THREE of them must be paper- or print-based references (from books or journals in the library) and ONE of them an article from a scholarly journal (e.g. Shakespeare Survey, Hamlet Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies , Borrowers and Lenders , etc.).
- Use the MLA style (in-text or parenthetical citations, author-page style) https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/ http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch08_o.html
- Use a hour:minute:second code (e.g. 1:23:35) to refer to moments in the films as displayed in the time-counter of your video player
- Use Times New Roman, 12 point, line spacing 1.5 cm, horizontal and vertical margins 3 cms
Initial letter of student’s surname
Assigned topic
A, C, E, Relate Almereyda’s and Doran’s adaptations to the recent widespread concern about unchecked surveillance by governments on individuals. (You may consider current issues involving the Patriots Act, or the global surveillance troubles
Further instructions
§ How to refer to a print-based source that you have found through an online resource: Since the usual Style Guides do not contemplate this situation, you may combine the instructions from both print-based sources (book, journal) and online sources. As an online source, you should add a reference (in italics) to the online service, the word “Web”, and date of access. It is also convenient to add the url (between pointed brackets) if it is not too long. An example:A student has found an essay called "The embassy of death: An essay on Hamlet", in Google Scholars, and has downloaded a doc file from it. She asks if the following reference is ok: Knight, G Wilson. "The embassy of death: An essay on Hamlet." The Wheelof Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy (1930): 17-46.April 20, 2013, http://scholar.google.es/scholar?hl=ca&q=the+embassy+of +death%3A+an+essay+on+hamlet&btnG=. This is not quite right. First, this is not a reliable source since the file is a transcription of a fragment from Knight’s essay and we cannot be sure how accurate this transcription is. Second, the essay is part of an anthology of essays written by Knight: it is therefore a book, and should be referenced as a book (including city and publisher in it), while the above reference follows the format of a journal (and wrongly includes the url without pointed brackets).The reference should be as follows: Knight, G. Wilson. "The embassy of death: An essay on Hamlet." The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. 17-46. Google Scholar. Web. 20 April 2013. However, you are best to find a more reliable source, such as The Internet Archive and Google Books, both showing scanned versions of the original printing. Note in the following reference for the Internet Archive reproduction that this online service uses the 5 th^ edition of Knight’s book, and so the publication information (city, publisher and year) refer to this 5 th^ edition, and the year of publication of the first edition (1930) is included before the publication information. Knight, G. Wilson. "The embassy of death: An essay on Hamlet." The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy. 1930. 5 th^ ed. Cleveland and New York: Meridian Books, 1957. 17-46. The Internet Archive. Web. 20 April 2013.
§ How to refer to different critical editions of Hamlet : Rather than using the following format, with both editions headed by the author’s name: Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Harold Jenkins. London: Methuen, 1982 Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Ed. Philip Edwards. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. it is more useful to refer to the editor (Jenkins, or Edwards) and list them under the editor’s name: Jenkins, Harold, ed. Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. London: Methuen,
Edwards, Philip, ed. Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.
§ References for the screen adaptations
Almereyda, Michael, dir. Hamlet. Perf. Ethan Hawke. Miramax Films, 2000. DVD. Doran, Gregory, dir. Hamlet. Perf. David Tennant. Royal Shakespeare Company. BBC, 2009. TV film.
