Complemento de inglês 1
English Literature –Empire and After - The Individual and Society
Teachers: Sara and Susie
This course will present some of the major writers of the closing years of the 19th
century and the 20th century though short stories.
Course aims:
Presentation of major British/Irish writers
Vocabulary expansion
Oral and/or written practice through
a) presentation of biographical and literary information about the authors
(powerpoint oral presentations by participants)
b) discussion of the following topics in connection with each text:
-scope and aims of the short story
-themes and assumptions/views of the writer
-plot/ construction of the story
-characterisation
-style and use of English
-other points of interest
For each text one participant should act as presenter, another as director of the discussions/
selector of passages to be read aloud by members of the group.
Evaluation
Participants will be expected to give a minimum of one oral presentation and submit at least
one written analysis of a story during the course. Creative writing of short stories by
participants is also welcome.
Date
January
Monday January 25th
February
Monday February 1st
Monday February 8th
Monday February 15th
Monday February 22nd
March
Monday March lst
Text
Homework for next week
Discussion of programme and
assignment of tasks
Homework
(For February 1st)
Rudyard Kipling: Lispeth
Rudyard Kipling: Lispeth
For February 8th Virginia Woolf:
The Mark on the Wall
For February 22nd
Joseph Conrad: An
Outpost of Progress [Part I]
Virginia Woolf: The Mark on the
Wall
No class [Carnival]
Joseph Conrad: An Outpost of
Progress (1)
Joseph Conrad: An Outpost of
Progress [Part I]
Monday March 8th
Katherine Mansfield:
The Doll’s House
Monday March 15th
D. H. Lawrence: The Horse
Dealer’s Daughter
Monday March 22nd
Monday March 29th
James Joyce: The Dead (1)
James Joyce: The Dead (2)
April
Monday April 5th
Monday, April 12th
Monday April 19th
Monday April 26th
May
Monday May 3rd
Monday May 10th
Monday May 17th
Monday May 24th
Monday May 31st
For March 1st Joseph Conrad: An
Outpost of Progress [Part I]
For March 8th
Katherine Mansfield:
The Doll’s House
For March 15th
DH Lawrence: The Horse Dealer’s
Daughter
for March 22nd
James Joyce: The Dead
[please read the whole text]
Monday April 5th
George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
George Orwell:
Shooting an Elephant
HG Wells:
The Country of the Blind
W. Somerset Maugham
The Force of Circumstance
Frank O’Connor:
First Confession
For April 12th
HG Wells: The Country of the Blind
For April 19th W. Somerset Maugham
The Force of Circumstance
For April269th
Frank O’Connor: First Confession
For May 2nd
Graham Greene: The Destructors
Graham Greene:
The Destructors
Doris Lessing:
A Mild Attack of Locusts
Harold Pinter
The Examination
Arundhati Roy
The Briefing
For May 9th
Saki: The Story-Teller
Round-up and evaluation
For May 2nd Doris Lessing:
A Mild Attack of Locusts
For May 17th Harold Pinter
The Examination
For May 24th Arundhati Roy
The Briefing
For May 31st
Saki [H.H. Munro]: The Story-Teller