North American Literature - 19th Century Narrative
Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The aim of this course is to study texts of three important authors to understand a specific important moment in the panorama of american narrative fiction. Thus this programme seeks to examine nineteenth-century American literature .
Program
The middle of the nineteeenth-century saw the birth of the so called American classics, who developed a native writing that dealt with American themes and American ideology. Fictional works by important writers as Hawthorne, Melville and Poe, who very much contributed to the canonization of American literature, will be studied.
Mandatory literature
Hawthorne, Nathaniel; The Scarlet Letter
Melville, Herman; Billy Bud and Other Stories
Poe, Edgar Allan; Selected Writings
Complementary Bibliography
Sacvan, Bercovitch; How the Puritans Won the American Revolution
Sacvan, Bercovitch; The Rites of Assent: Rhetoric, Ritual and the Ideology of American Consensus
Bové, Paul A.; "Discourse" in Critical Terms for Literary Study
Gray, Richard; A History of American Literature
Guillory, John; "canon". In Critical Terms for Literary Studies
Kavanagh, James H.; "Ideology". In Critical Terms for Literary Studies
Kumar, Krishan; Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times
Ruland, Richard et al; From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
Teaching methods and learning activities
Theoretical and practical classes + tutorial orientation
keywords
Humanities > Literature > American literature
Evaluation Type
Evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
Weight (%) |
End date |
Attendance (estimated) |
Participação presencial |
56,00 |
|
|
|
Exame |
2,00 |
|
2011-02-12 |
|
Trabalho escrito |
31,00 |
|
2011-02-12 |
|
Total: |
- |
0,00 |
|
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
End date |
|
Estudo autónomo |
73 |
2011-02-12 |
|
Total: |
73,00 |
|
Eligibility for exams
A minimum 75% attendance of all classes
Calculation formula of final grade
Final exam - 100%
Examinations or Special Assignments
not applicable
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
not applicable
Classification improvement
See the Faculty's "Guides for Assessment"