CURSO : INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
TRADUCCION : INTRODUCCION A LOS ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS
SIGLA : LET1341
CRÉDITOS : 10
MÓDULOS : 02
REQUISITOS : NO REQUERIMENTS
CARÁCTER : MINIMUM
DISCIPLINA : LITERATURE
I. DESCRIPTION
In this course students will be introduced to a variety of literary genres (short story, novel, poetry, and drama),
analytical concepts and theoretical approaches. They will gain experience in analyzing an assortment of texts
and will be evaluated on their ability to do so in groups and individually. The following questions will guide
the course: What is literature? How do we study it? What are the differences and similarities between genres?
II. OBJECTIVES
1. To learn and test existing definitions of literature and literary genres.
2. To learn how to use analytical concepts to articulate critical and logical arguments about the meaning
of literary texts.
III. CONTENTS
1. General introduction to literature.
2. Narrative (Essay and Novel).
3. Poetry.
4. Drama.
IV. METHODOLOGY
- Lectures.
- Class work (workshops).
- Individual work (written exercises).
V. EVALUATION
- Exams.
- Class participation (attendance, participation in class and individual work).
- Workshop exercises.
- Final Paper.
VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Compulsory:
Cisneros, Sandra Born Bad. The House on Mango Street. New York, Vintage Books,
1984, pp. 58-61.
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Faulkner, William Barn Burning. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and
Drama. Kennedy, E. J. & D. Goia (eds.). New York, Harper
Collins, 1995, pp. 162-175.
Freud, Sigmund The Uncanny. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Ed.
Vincent Leitch. 2? Ed. New York, W.W. Norton, 2010, pp. 824-
841.
Genette, Gerard Voice. Trans. Jane E. Lewin. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in
Method. Ithaca, Cornell UP, 1980, pp. 212-262.
Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House. Kennedy, E. J. & Dana Goia (eds.). Literature: An
Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York, Harper
Collins, 1995, pp. 1258-1314.
Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman. Kennedy, E. J. & Dana Goia (eds.).
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New
York, Harper Collins, 1995, pp. 1476-1547.
Olsen, Tillie I Stand Here Ironing. Kennedy, E. J. & Dana Goia (eds.).
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New
York, Harper Collins, 1995, pp. 535-540.
Poe, Edgar Allan The Tell-Tale Heart. Kennedy, E. J. & Dana Goia (eds.). Literature:
An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York, Harper
Collins, 1995, pp. 61-65.
Ruhl, Sarah Dead Man's Cell Phone. New York, Theatre Communications
Group, 2008.
Sontag, Susan The Way We Live Now. New York, 1999, pp. 569-583.
Todorov, Tzvetan The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre. Trans.
Richard Howard. New York, Cornell UP, 1973.
Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest. The Importance of Being Earnest
and Other Plays. Oxford, Oxford UP, 2008.
Complementary:
Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7? Ed. Fort Worth, Cornell UP, 1999.
May, Charles E. The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice. New York, Simon &
Schuster Macmillan, 1995.
Eagleton, Terry What Is Literature? Literary Theory. 2? Ed. University of
Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 1-15.
Ferguson, Margaret, et al. (eds.) The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 4? Ed. London, W. W. Norton &
Company, 1996.
Hirsch, Edward Message in a Bottle. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with
Poetry. Durham, Harcourt, 1999, pp. 1-30.
Mansfield, Katherine The Fly. Women, Men, and the Great War: An Anthology of
Stories. Manchester, Manchester UP, 1995.
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Poe, Edgar Allan The Philosophy on Composition. 1846.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/poe/composition.html
Strand, Mark & Eavan Boland The Making of a Poem. A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms. New
York, WW. Norton & Company, 2000.
Walker, Alice Everyday Use. Kennedy, E. J. & Dana Goia (eds.). Literature: An
Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. New York, Harper
Collins, 1995, pp. 90-97.
Wood, James Language. How Fiction Works. New York, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2008, pp. 181-212.
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