Guia Academica - Facultad de Filología - Universidad de Salamanca

401 FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA GUÍA ACADÉMICA 2009-2010
Unit 7. Reading Middle English manuscripts and texts: diatopic varieties.
7.1. The earliest surviving Middle English text.
7.2. The dialectal areas of Middle English: Southern and Kentish, Northern dialects, West Midlands dialects, East Midlands and London dialects.
Unit 8. Reading Modern English texts: from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century.
PRACTICAL
– Practical exercises related to the contents of the syllabus.
– Analysis of Old English manuscripts.
– Analysis of Middle and Modern English manuscripts and texts: abbreviations, punctuation, etc. paying special attention to diatopic variants.
– Comparison of texts from different periods in order to analyse their developments across time.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
http://georgetown.edu/cball/oe/old_english.html (links to Anglo-Saxon sites)
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl401/
http://etext.lib.vitginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
http://sps.k12.mo.us/khs/gmcling/gmc.htm
http://georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/activities/lavc/index.htm
14967-LITERATURA CANADIENSE EN LENGUA INGLESA
Asignatura Optativa. Primer Semestre. 6 créditos
Profa. Ana Mª Fraile Marcos
(http://web.usal.es/~anafra)
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF CANADA
2. EXPLORING CANADA: WRITING BEFORE 1867
• Epistolary Fashion: Frances Brooke The History of Emily Montague (1769); The Poetry of Oliver Goldsmith (From The Rising Village (1825))
and Charles Sangster (From The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay (1856)); Exploration Journal: Susanna Moodie (from Roughing It in the
Bush (1852) and Catherine Parr Trail; Historical Romance: John Richardson and William Kirby
3. THE BEGINNINGS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE: FROM CONFEDERATION TO THE 1920S
• The Confederation Poets: G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Campbell Scott
• Indian Themes and Tradition: The Poetry of Isabella V. Crawford and Pauline Johnson
• Social Satire and Sketches of Reality: T. C. Haliburton and Stephen Leacock (From Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912))
• Fiction, the Colonial Mind and the U. S. Connection: Sara Jeannette Duncan’s The Imperialist
4. THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORM: CANADIAN POETRY BETWEEN THE 1920S AND THE 1960S
• Beyond Confederation Poetry: E. J. Pratt
• Modernist Poetry and the McGill Movement: A. J. M. Smith and F. R. Scott
• Mid-Century Canadian Poetry: A. M. Klein, Dorothy Livesay, Earle Birney