TOPIC 62 The Commonwealth. Cultural diversity. The development of linguistic varieties. Inter-cultural influences and manifestations. The novels of E.M. Forster, D. Lessing and N.Gordimer.
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TOPIC 55 The lost generation: S. Fitzgerald, J.Steinbeck and E. Hemingway. The narrative of W.Faulkner.
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TOPIC 54 Humour: M.Twain, H.James and Cosmopolitanism
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TOPIC 53 The novel, the tale and poetry in the US: H.Melville, E.A. Poe and W. Whitman.
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TOPIC 52 The historic evolution of the United States: From A. Lincoln to F.D Roosevelt.
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TOPIC 49 The construction and administration of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. J.Conrad and R.Kipling
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TOPIC 47 The English industrial revolution; its influence as a model of historic trasformation. Social and political changes through the literature of the period. C. Dickens.
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TOPIC 46 The historical configuration of the United States of America: From Independence to the Civil War. Representative novels: The Scarlet Letter and The Red Badge of Courage
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TOPIC 44 Shakespeare and his time. The most representative works.
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TOPIC 43 Oral medieval literature: The Arthurian legen. G. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
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TOPIC 41 The Romanization of Britain. The influence of Latin on the English language. Loanwords and calques.
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TOPIC 30 Direct Speech and Indirect Speech
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TOPIC 27 The Passive Voice. Forms and Functions.
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TOPIC 26 The Expression of Doubt, Condition, Hypothesis and Contrast.
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TOPIC 23 English Sentence Structure: Statements, Questions, Negation and Exclamations