English Literature II

Code:

MEAAM014

Acronym:

LI2

Instance: 2012/2013 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Anglo-American Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAAL	0	Course Programme	1	-	9	80	243
MEAA	13	Study Plan since 2007/2008	1	-	9	80	243

Teaching language

English

Objectives

The main goal of this seminar is to ensure that students will become familiar with a poetic tradition that has proved signally influential in the broader contexts of the literatures of the English language, but has so far seen this relevance only intermittently recognised in Portuguese curricula for advanced study.

Program

The cultural and historical particularities of the Irish situation will require a reading of Irish poetic traditions that should at all times prove alerto to the close imbrication of literary canonisation and the delineation of identities (personal and communal).
Authors to be considered will prominently include W.B.Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon.

Primary Sources:
HEANEY, Seamus. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996. London: Faber, 1998.
HEANEY, Seamus. Electric Light. London: Faber, 2001.
HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber, 2006.
HEANEY, Seamus. Human Chain. London: Faber, 2010.
KAVANAGH, Patrick. Selected Poems. Ed. by Antoinette Quinn. Harmonsdworth: Penguin, 1996.
MACNEICE, Louis. Collected Poems. London: Faber, 1966.
MAHON, Derek. Collected Poems. Loughcrew: Gallery, 1999.
MAHON, Derek. Harbour Lights. Loughcrew: Gallery, 2005.
MAHON, Derek. Life on Earth. Loughcrew: Gallery, 2008.
MAHON, Derek. An Autumn Wind. Loughcrew: Gallery, 2010.
MULDOON, Paul. Poems 1968-1998. London: Faber, 2001.
MULDOON, Paul. Moy Sand and Gravel. London: Faber, 2002.
MULDOON, Paul. Horse Latitudes. London: Faber, 2006.
MULDOON, Paul. Maggot. London: Faber, 2010.
YEATS, W.B. Collected Poems. London: Picador, 1990.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course will be run on a seminar basis

keywords

Humanities > Literature > Literary criticism
Humanities > Literature > European literature > Germanic literature > English literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	45,00
formal oral presentation	Exame	1,00		2012-07-31
end of semester research paper	Trabalho escrito	40,00		2012-07-31
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
mandatory research activities	Estudo autónomo	157	2012-07-31
	Total:	157,00

Eligibility for exams

a) active participation in the seminars: 20%
b) final essay: 80%

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average of the results of the components mentioned above.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n/a

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n/a

Classification improvement

n/a