Guia Academica - Facultad de Filología - Universidad de Salamanca

GUÍA ACADÉMICA 2009-2010 FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA 394
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
Unit 8. Major Modern English phonological changes.
8.1. Synchronic and Diachronic description of the vowel system: Great Vowel Shift and other changes.
8.2. Synchronic and Diachronic description of the consonant system.
PRACTICAL:
- Revision of the most important phonetic, lexical and semantic processes.
- Practical exercises related to the contents of the syllabus:
- Spelling and phonological patterns of change from ME (< OE) to PdE.
- Exercises on the Great Vowel Shift.
- Identification of dialectal characteristics in different texts.
- Translation of a variety of representative texts of the Middle English period: fragments from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Owl and
the Nightingale, Ancrene Wisse, Ayenbite of Inwyt, from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare as an example of Modern English.
- Analysis of the Middle English texts previously translated from a phonological and semantical perspectives.
SET BOOK
BURROW, J. A. & Th. TURVILLE-PETRE. 2004 3 [1992]. A Book of Middle English. Oxford: Blackwell.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
http://www.ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/hel.html
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/
http://www.hti.umich.edu/c/cme/simple.html
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/eebo/
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm (Middle English Texts)
14858-LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA HASTA FINALES DEL SIGLO XIX
Asignatura Obligatoria. Segundo Semestre. 6 créditos
Prof.: Daniel Pastor García
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a thorough survey of American literature from the time of English colonization to the end of the nineteenth century. Our class discussions
will focus on close analysis of texts (fiction, poetry, essays, autobiography, letters, sermons,…), while lectures will introduce individual authors and
survey relevant historical issues and cultural movements.
COURSE CONTENTS
I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD (1607-1775)
I.1. The record of exploration.
I.2. The Puritan doctrine and literature.
Readings: John Smith: From A Description of New England; William Bradford: From Of Plymouth Plantation; Anne Bradstreet: “To My Dear and
Loving Husband”.