Authors and Texts

Code:

MEAAM001

Acronym:

AT

Instance: 2014/2015 - 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
EAAT	0	Course Programme	1	-	9	-
MEAA	3	Study Plan since 2007/2008	1	-	9	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course will focus on the study and critical discussion of published Portuguese versions of literary texts in English. It will cover texts from all the dominant genres - drama, narrative fiction and the lyric - while laying some emphasis on canonical authors. The course will foster translation criticism, and will prompt students to identity strategies and patterns in Portuguese appropriations of texts in English, as well as the contexts that to some extent have determined them.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students are expected to be able to scrutinize a wide range of literary texts, in both their intrinsic nature and relevant historical and cultural frame; they are also expected to get a solid level of expertise as translators.

Working method

Presencial

Program

This programme acknowledges and reflects its closeness to the ongoing Shakespeare translation project that the Department of Anglo-American Studies and the research centre (CETAPS) have hosted in recent years; this means that some of the work to be pursued will involve a critical reading of Portuguese translations of Shakespeare. Other authors to be considered include Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway.

Mandatory literature

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Othello. ISBN: 0-141-01231-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

Those proper to a seminar: critical readings, discussion, submission of conclusions of case studies.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	57,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho de investigação	75,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

n.a.

Calculation formula of final grade

Active participation in seminar sessions: 40%. Research paper submitted at the end of the semester: 60%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n.a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n.a.

Classification improvement

n.a.

Observations

n.a.