English Literature - Modernism

Code:

LLC093

Acronym:

LIM

Instance: 2007/2008 - 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
EAA	4	Official Study Plan - LEAA	4	-	6	52	162
EELRI	0	Official Study Plan - LEELRI	4	-	6	52	162
EIA	3	Official Study Plan - LEIA	4	-	6	52	162
LLC	16	Join Language Plan only for 2007/2008	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Single Language Plan only for 2007/2008	1	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) only for 2007/2008	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Upon completing this subject, students should have acquired diversified though general understandings of the literature and culture of the first decades of the 20th century in the West, especially in England. Moreover, they should have developed the conceptual means for analysing the influence and the importance of modernism in its literary, cultural and institutional consequences in western societies, especially in England and the United States, for the rest of the century and until the present day.

Program

Strictly speaking the term “modernism” is usually referred to as a set of ruptures and innovations that make up the diversity of movements that during the first three decades of the 20th century utterly changed the cultural landscape in the West, especially in literature and the arts. In a broader sense, which tends to prevail in the fields of history and the study of culture, modernism is taken as a global name for those cultural and social changes that through the radicalism of their intervention in history early in the century (in literature and the arts, but also in science and philosophy, in society and its institutions) would end by conferring a specific identity to the whole 20th century.
This course, though centred on the above mentioned strict sense of modernism, aims at an historical integration that allows for a vindication of its broader sense through a study that connects literary texts with theoretical developments in the fields of literature and the arts and with the institutional formations that enable the publishing, circulation and growing importance of the ideas and literature of modernism throughout the 20th century. The course will be organised according to four different directions in the analysis of the cultural interventions of modernism.

Cultural interventions I: ideas
T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot: ideas on literature and art.

Cultural interventions II: projects
Anthologies, magazines, movements and manifestoes: the georgian anthologies; anthologies and the imagist movement; Blast magazine and vorticism.

Cultural interventions III: means
Literary magazines and book edition; patrons; the universities.

Cultural interventions IV: results
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, by Ezra Pound; The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot; Ulysses, by James Joyce.

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	56,00
Written Exam	Exame	2,00		2008-02-29
Report on reading assignment or research paper	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2008-02-29
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Study for the exam	Estudo autónomo	73	2008-02-29
	Total:	73,00