English Literature - 20th Century Narrative

Code:

LLC089

Acronym:

LIN_20

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LA	2	Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	3	-	6	52	162
LLC	17	Joint Lauguage Plan -Englis/German	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan - English/Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/English	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-English	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With German	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) with Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To enable students to gain a detailed knowledge of some relevant narrative works of early 20th-century Britain;
- To study how the British novel contributed to the formation of certain images of the British Empire;
- To elucidate the relations between text and world, namely through the analysis of the involvement of narratives in ideological and political configurations;
- To understand the role of literature in the shaping of representations of national identity;
- To promote students’ contact and familiarisation with concepts and points of view which occupy an important place in contemporary literary and cultural studies.

Program

English Literature - 20th Century Narrative: Narratives of Empire
The British Empire represented a determining factor in the shaping of contemporary history due to its centrality within European power relations as well as to the extent of its dominance on a global scale. As is usually the case with relevant historical facts, the British Empire gave rise to several narratives and was, at the same time, diversely narrated, thus being also the result of these diverse narratives. The module will focus on this double status of the Empire, seen as both a cause and an effect of narratives. It will start with a novel from late 19th century, read as a Victorian substantiation of the narrative representation of Empire, and will continue with the study of three novels from the early 20th century.
The coursework will emphasise the study of images of the Empire built from national stereotypes, thus falling within the scope of identity studies; on the other hand, it will point towards further representations of identity, either determined or influenced by the Empire, hence linking to research in post-colonial studies. These various trends will call the students’ attention to ways of re-evaluating narrative fiction which developed within the theoretical and critical frameworks that characterized of the last decades of the 20th century.


Novels to be studied:
H. Rider Haggard, _King Solomon's Mines_ (1885), Penguin Classics, London: Penguin, 2007
Rudyard Kipling, _Kim_ (1901), Oxford World's Classics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998
Joseph Conrad, _Heart of Darkness_ (1902), Penguin Classics, London: Penguin, 2007
E. M. Forster, _A Passage to India_ (1924), Penguin Classics, London: Penguin, 2005

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theorical classes, Pratical and Tutorial classes

keywords

Humanities > Literature > European literature > Germanic literature > English literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
Final exam	Exame	2,00		2011-02-12
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Reading and study of works in the reading list	Estudo autónomo	104	2011-02-12
	Total:	104,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Active participation in class- 20%
Exam - 80%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.