Literatura en Inglés III 2018-1

Seventeenth Century Literature

Gabriela Villanueva Noriega

The course attempts to provide an overview of the broad spectrum of literature produced throughout this conflictive period. The selection of works intends to widen our perception of what is normally understood as literature and to engage the students in a dialogue with other fields of knowledge that intersect with the poetical production of the period at several points.

Introduction: The Seventeenth Century: problems of periodization and general context. (22 de agosto)

Jacobean Theatre:

• Shakespeare, The Tempest (1610-1) (29 y 5 de septiembre)
• Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610). (12 y 19 de septiembre)
• William Prynne, Histriomastix, “Prologue” (Práctica dirigida con Early English Books Online) (26 de septiembre).

The Monarchy of Wit:

• ·      John Donne and conceited poetry (3, 10 de octubre)
• ·      Poems from Song and Sonnets
• ·      From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditations IV and XVII
• ·      Poems from Holy Sonnets (1610-17)

The Development of Prose:

• ·      Francis Bacon, "Of Truth", "Of Plantations", "Of Studies" in Essays (1597-1612-1625), (Práctica dirigida con Early English Books Online, buscar las tres ediciones) (17 de octubre y 24 de octubre)
• ·      New Atlantis (1623) 
• ·      John Donne, From An Anatomy of the World, “First Anniversary”.

Devotional poetry:

• ·      George Herbert, The Temple.
• ·      Henry Vaughan. Silex Scintillans. (31 de octubre).

Other voices:

• ·      Katherine Philips
• ·      Margaret Cavendish, selección de poemas (7 de noviembre).
• ·      Andrew Marvell:“The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”, “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Mower Against Gardens”, “Damon the Mower”, “The Mower to the Glowworms”, “The Mower’s Song”, “The Garden”, “An Horatian Ode”, “Upon Appleton House”. (14 y 21 de noviembre)
• ·      John Milton: Paradise Lost, Books I-IV, VI-VIII (28 de noviembre y 5 de diciembre)

Final paper due date (12 de diciembre).

The course will be graded with participation (10%), a midterm research practice (30%) and a final paper (60%) at the end of the semester.

Extra credits will be given for attendance and engagement in the discussion.