North American Literature - 20th Century Narrative

Code:

LLC098

Acronym:

LNAF20

Instance: 2009/2010 - 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	0	Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	3	-	6	-
LLC	23	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 four works which allow us to understand specific important moments in the panorama of american narrative fiction in the first half of the 20th century.

Program

The following works will be studied:
-Sister Carrie in the context of Literary Naturalism ;
-The Sun Also Rises in the context of American Modernism;
-As I Lay Dying and Delta Wedding in the context of the Southern Literary Renaissance.


The social-cultural context of the works will also be examined

Mandatory literature

Eudora Welty; Delta Wedding
Ernest Hemingway; The Sun Also Rise
William Faulkner; As I lay Dying
Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie

Complementary Bibliography

Gray, Richard; Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region, Cambridge University Press, 1989
King, Richard H.; A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South, Oxford University Press, 1980
Baguley, David; Naturalist Fiction: The Entropic Vison , Cambridge University Press, 1990
Bercovitch, Sacvan; The Cambridge History of American Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2002

keywords

Humanities > Literature > American literature
Humanities > Literature > Literary criticism

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00		2009-12-19
	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2009-12-19
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	73	2009-12-19
	Total:	73,00