North American Literature - 19th Century Narrative

Code:

LLC097

Acronym:

LNAF19

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
LLC	18	Joint Lauguage Plan -Englis/German	3	-	6	-
		Joint Language Plan - English/Spanish	3	-	6	-
		Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/English	3	-	6	-
		Single Language Plan-English	2	-	6	-
			3
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With German	3	-	6	-
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) with Spanish	3	-	6	-
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	3	-	6	-
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	3	-	6	-

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"