English Literature II

Code:

MEAAM014

Acronym:

LI2

Instance: 2016/2017 - 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
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.
The particularities of the Irish circumstance will justify an enhanced sensitivity to the interconnections between literary production and the delineation of identities (in cultural and political terms.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semester students are expected to have reached a sustained understanding of Irish poetic traditions over the past century, considered both in their formal lineaments and in their complex relationships to contextual determinants.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

n.a.

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.
MULDOON, Paul. One Thousand Things Worth Knowing, 2015.
YEATS, W.B. Collected Poems. London: Picador, 1990.

Mandatory literature

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013; Opened ground. ISBN: 0-571-19493-1
Kavanagh, Patrick, 1904-1967; The^complete poems. ISBN: 0-904984-80-X
MacNeice, Louis, 1907-1963; Collected poems. ISBN: 0-571-11353-2
Mahon, Derek, 1941-; Collected poems. ISBN: 1-85235-255-8
Muldoon, Paul; New selected poems 1968-1994. ISBN: 0-571-17784-0
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939; Collected poems. ISBN: 0-330-31638-9

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

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho escrito	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	78,00
Estudo autónomo	120,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho de investigação
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

a) active participation in the seminars: 30%
b) final essay: 70%

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

Observations

English will be the course's working language.