Después de los Pilares, pasamos a la unidad 2 - Renaissance literature. Necesitaremos los textos de Sidney, Spenser y Shakespeare (de éste hay varios).
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Un interludio en los Pilares: PREMIOS NOBEL RECIENTES (EN INGLÉS)
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Terminamos la Edad Media con una panorámica de los siglos XIV y XV: The Age of Chaucer.
Recordad que, simultáneamente a las clases presenciales, seguimos avanzando por la SECCIÓN B del curso, el siglo XX. Hay nuevos materiales sobre la unidad 6 en el enlace correspondiente de la columna derecha (Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, etc.).
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Última semana antes del Pilar:
Necesitaremos
en clase los textos de:
-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
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Si queréis optar por hacer trabajos
de curso, quizá os interese leer unas notas
sobre cómo hacer un comentario de texto.
1. LITERATURA INGLESA MEDIEVAL
Siguen aquí notas sobre el tema 1. En
la columna derecha irán apareciendo los enlaces a los demás temas,
tanto de la Sección A (presencial) como de la Sección B (no
presencial).
LATE MIDDLE AGES:
Battle of Agincourt (Henry V,
1415)
End of 100 Years' War and Wars of the Roses under Henry VI and Edward
IV (Lancaster vs. York)
1476: Caxton's printing press
1485 Richard III (of York) defeated by Henry VII (House of Tudor)
Middle English literature: 15th century
John Skelton, Colin Cloute. Satire.
____. Magnificence.
Morality
play. 1515
Cycles of Mystery Plays (York,
Wakefield, Chester, East Anglia)
Morality plays:
Mankind, Everyman,
The Castle of Perseverance
First women writers:
Julian of Norwich
Margery Kempe
John
Lydgate (c.1370-c.1451):
- Troy Book
- The Siege of Thebes
- The Fall of Princes
Sir Thomas Malory, Morte
Darthur, ed. by William
Caxton, 1485.
Scottish literature:
Robert Henryson (1425-1508):
- The Testament of Cressid
- Moral Fables of Aesop
William Dunbar (late 15th)
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Una introducción a la sociedad de la
Inglaterra medieval y al Middle English:
- vídeo titulado
"Historical context for the Canterbury
Tales" https://youtu.be/1epKYZURHB8
- y "Chaucer's England":
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Middle
English Literature: 14th century
GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343-1400)
Chaucer, Geoffrey. ? The
Romaunt of the Rose.
Trans. from Guillaume de
Lorris. C. 1368-72.
_____. The Book
of the Duchess.
Poem. 1368-72.
_____. "The Monk's Tale."
c. 1372-80. Later included in The
Canterbury Tales.
_____. The House
of Fame.
Poem. 1378-80.
_____. The Parlement of Foules [The
Parliament of Fowls]. Poem.
c. 1380-82. _____. The Legend of Good Women. Poem.
1380-87.
_____. Boece.
Trans.
of
Boethius' The Consolation of
Philosophy. C. 1380-87.
_____. The Knight's Tale.
Romance, based on
Boccaccio. C.
1380-87. Later included in The
Canterbury Tales.
_____. Troilus
and Criseyde. Narrative poem.
c.1382-86. (From
Boccaccio's
Filostrato).
_____. Treatise on the
Astrolabe. Scientific
prose. 1391.
_____. The Canterbury Tales.
Verse narrative.
Written
1388-1400.
Rhyme Royal stanza: ababbcc
SOBRE CHAUCER:
Unos
apuntes introductorios a Chaucer, y otros A NIVEL AVANZADO
También aquí. una
introducción a su obra.
Y en audio:
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/;
c.
1343 -- 25 October 1400), known as the
Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English
poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in
Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his
lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing
a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis,
Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a
bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include
The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women
and Troilus and Criseyde, he
is best known today for The
Canterbury
Tales. Chaucer
is a crucial figure in
developing the legitimacy
of the
vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary
languages in England were French and Latin.
The
Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in
Middle
English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales
(mostly written in verse although some are in prose) are told as part
of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel
together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas
Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free
meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.
Following a long list of works
written earlier in his career, including
Troilus and Criseyde, House of Fame, and Parliament
of Fowls,
the
Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum
opus. He
uses the tales and the
descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait
of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.
Structurally, the collection resembles
The Decameron, which
Chaucer may
have read during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372.
*This audio
collection
contains a
treasury of 100 classic books and
includes info on the life and times of the author, the theme of the
book, the characters, the story outline, a concise yet detailed
abridgement of the story and a discussion of the values that make each
book one of the great classical works of literature.
An introductory video lesson on The Canterbury Tales:
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A nivel avanzado:
Chaucer:
NIVEL AVANZADO
Some notes on John Gower
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14th century:
1336- Edward III begins Hundred Years' War
1348- Black Death
1381- Peasants' Revolt
1399- Deposition of Richard II by Henry IV
Geoffrey
Chaucer
(c. 1343-1400)
John Gower
(1325?-1408):
Speculum meditantis (Le Miroir de
l'Homme)
Vox
Clamantis
Confessio Amantis (in
English)
Gawain
poet:
Cleanness, Patience, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(late 14th c.)
William Langland, Piers Plowman (1362-92)
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NIVEL AVANZADO:
Un audio sobre Piers
Plowman (In Our Time).
Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight (vídeo, NIVEL AVANZADO)
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Other
religious works:
Cursor Mundi (encyclopedic
poem, Northumbria, c.
1300)
The
South
English Legendary
Dan
Michel, The Ayenbite of Inwit
Religious
Reformers: Wyclif and the
Lollards
Other (anonymous) works:
William and the Were-wolf
(from
the
French, c. 1350)
Morte Arthure
& Le Morte Arthur (note that these anonymous romances are not the
later
work by Malory)
King
Alisaunder
The Destruction of Troy (Continental sources,
the Troy stories)
Chroniclers:
Robert of Gloucester, Robert
Mannyng of Brunne
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The
Middle English Context (NIVEL AVANZADO)
The History of the English language: An overview
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El martes 28 hablaremos algo más de literatura medieval, y leeremos algo de Beowulf. Traed la primera selección de lecturas de esta obra, Beowulf, en las fotocopias, y también las hojas que repartimos en clase.
Empezamos también a poner materiales de la SECCIÓN B de la asignatura (siglo XX, no presencial), que se irán añadiendo en los enlaces de la columna de la derecha. Empezando por el tema 6, Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana 1900-1960.
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13th century:
Verse narrative:
Layamon. Brut. c. 1205. (Arthurian Cycle)
Guy of Warwick
King Horn
Havelok the Dane c. 1280.
Moral works:
The Owl and the Nightingale. c. 1200.
The Seven Sages of Rome
Barlaam and Josaphat
Devotional works:
Orm. Ormulum. c. 1200.
Ancrene Riwle c. 1215.
Kentish Sermons
Hali Meidenhad
Latin churchmen:
Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus (philosophers)
Walter Map, De nugis curialum (c. 1200); ? prose Lancelot
Roger of Wendover, Flores Historiarum (Flowers of History) (1235)
Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (1259)
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12th century
NIVEL AVANZADO:
The Twelfth Century: Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin literature
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Anglo-Saxon Literature (up to the 11th c.)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Beginning of the Middle English period:
Norman Invasion (Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror: 1066)
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NIVEL
AVANZADO:
- From Old English to Middle English
- MIDDLE ENGLISH: THE LANGUAGE OF THE CANTERBURY TALES
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Para este primer tema (LITERATURA MEDIEVAL) es muy recomendable
empezar por este capítulo de la Penguin Short History of English
Literature: OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Nuestra lectura principal para esta semana: Beowulf.
Para completar
el
tratamiento de estos temas, recomiendo acudir a los manuales. Por
ejemplo, así
trata el capítulo de Beowulf el manual de Michael Alexander.
También tenéis aquí unos
apuntes y lecciones adicionales, algunos a nivel más
avanzado. (NIVEL
AVANZADO: Beowulf).
Aquí un vídeo sobre The language
of Beowulf. Parte de una serie de lecciones muy útiles que se
encuentran en YouTube.
Y aquí una breve película de dibujos animados sobre Beowulf:
En conjunto, la mejor película sobre Beowulf es la de Robert Zemeckis
(2007), Beowulf—aunque
no es
nada fiel al original, como tampoco lo son otras que se han hecho con
este título, sí es recomendable.
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RECAPITULACIÓN
DE LA PRIMERA SEMANA
- Actividades de la primera semana
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OLD
ENGLISH LITERATURE c. 500-1066
Celtic Britain
- Rebellions vs. Rome: Boadicea
The Roman occupation (c. 43-420)
Julius Caesar, then Claudius
Anglo-Saxon conquest c. 450
Germanic tribes: Angles,
Saxons, Jutes
English kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia,
Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Kent...
c. 600 Christianization (Ethelberth's laws)
Monasteries: Iona, Jarrow,
Winchester, Abingdon, Canterbury, Peterborough...
Caedmon's Hymn (7th
c.) (in Bede's work:)
The Venerable Bede, Historia
Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. 732.
The Danish invasions
871-899 King Alfred
1066 The Norman conquest
- Manuscripts:
The
Lindisfarne Gospels
The Exeter Book
The Vercelli Book
The Beowulf Manuscript
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Some authors and works
- Saints' lives (Judith, St. Guthlac,
Andreas)
- Biblical poems and
translations
(Genesis, the Gospels) - The
Dream of the Rood, The Phoenix
- Popular sermons (Blickling
Homilies)
- Religious poets: Caedmon, Cynewulf
(Christ,
Juliana, Elene, The Fates of the Apostles - early 9th c.),
- Bestiaries, Riddles...
- Elegiac poems:
Deor, Widsith, The
Seafarer, The Wanderer, The Ruin, The Wife's Lament, The Husband's
Message, Wulf and Eadwacer.
- Epic poems: Beowulf, The Battle of
Brunanburh, The Battle of Maldon
Poetic style:
The kennings. Alliterative verse.
Understatement.
- Learned literate culture:
- In Latin: Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin of York.
- In English: Aelfric and Wulfstan
(Homilies)
- King Alfred (trans. of Boethius' Consolation
of Philosophy, Psalms)
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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-
Old English and the Anglo-Saxons: NIVEL AVANZADO
- THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH (NIVEL
AVANZADO)
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