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CURSO:NARRATIVE: FROM ROMANTICISM TO MODERNISM
TRADUCCION:NARRATIVA: DESDE EL ROMANTICISMO AL MODERNISMO
SIGLA:LET0315
CREDITOS:10
MODULOS:02
CARACTER:MINIMO
TIPO:CATEDRA
CALIFICACION:ESTANDAR
DISCIPLINA:LETRAS
PALABRAS CLAVE:NARRATIVA, INGLES, SIGLO XIX
NIVEL FORMATIVO:PREGRADO


I.DESCRIPCIÓN DEL CURSO

The focus of this course will be the analysis and discussion of a diverse sample of texts representative of the XIXth C novel. The lectures and discussions will cover narrative traditions that span from the Gothic to early XXth C Modernism. An interdisciplinary approach involving literary theory, philosophy, pop culture, film and cultural studies will be employed in these analyses.


II.RESULTADOS DE APRENDIZAJE

1.Build a continuous and dynamic dialogue with the texts, their intertexts and the theoretical corpus analyzing English language contemporary narrative traditions that span from the Gothic to early XXth C Modernism.

2.Apply nuanced readings and textual analyses of traditional and non-traditional narratives.

3.Analyze the texts? points of contact with film and cultural studies.


III.CONTENIDOS

1.The Romantic and Gothic Novel
1.1.Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein. ?Horror, Gothic space, monstrosity, physiognomy, unheimlich, language, form and deformity, creation and catastrophe, personal identity, anthrotopology, cinematic/pop representations and intertexts.
1.2.Influence in American Narrative: Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Salem Witch Trials. The nature of evil, wickedness and puritan American society.

2.The Victorian Novel
2.1.Oscar Wilde?s The Picture of Dorian Gray. ?Fin de siecle, the double, the fall, Faustian doom (The monkey?s paw), double encoding, sexual identity, author and text.
2.2.The Edwardian Novel: Joseph Conrad?s Heart of Darkness. ?Colonialism and postcolonialism, solipsism,
silence and the ineffable, solitude, alterity, and ideological landscapes.

3.Transition into Early XXth C
3.1.The Modernist Novel: Virginia Woolf?s Mrs. Dalloway. -Traits of Modernism, stream of consciousness, Bergsonian time and memory, emancipative metanarrative, narrative parallax, disjointed and overlapping voices.
3.2.The Reinvention of Horror: H.P. Lovecraft?s novella The Call of Cthulhu. Poe vs. Lovecraft, Cosmic Horror, beyond good and evil, primeval.


IV.ESTRATEGIAS METODOLOGICAS

-Lectures.

-Class discussions.

-Class work.

-Individual work.

-Oral presentations.

-Discussion groups.


V.ESTRATEGIAS EVALUATIVAS

-Oral presentation: 20%

-Written Evaluations: 50%

-Final essay: 30%


VI.BIBLIOGRAFIA

Minima

Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown

Lovecraft, H.P. The Call of Cthulhu

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.


Complementaria

Chaudhuri, Supriya, `Filamentary relations?: Virginia Woolf and India Literature compass, 2020-10, Vol.17 (10), p.1-15.

Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience. Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.


PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
FACULTAD DE LETRAS / AGOSTO 2021