North American Literature - the Post - 1945 Novel

Code:

LLC099

Acronym:

LNAROM

Instance: 2009/2010 - 2S

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	5	Study Plan - Applied Languages: Business Relations	2	-	6	-
		Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	3	-	6	-
LLC	96	Joint Lauguage Plan -Englis/German	2	-	6	-
		Joint Language Plan - English/Spanish	2	-	6	-
		Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/English	2	-	6	-
		Single Language Plan-English	2	-	6	-
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With German	2	-	6	-
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) with Spanish	2	-	6	-
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	2	-	6	-
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This programme is designed to engage students in the analysis of novels representing the profound changes in sensibility which World War II led to. Drawing on a variety of critical, theoretical, historical, and cultural sources, this subject also concerns the contextualisation and study of the most distinguished moments in American narrative fiction, from the legacy of World War II to postmodernist writing and multicultural sensibility. The programme structure shall naturally lead to a critical understanding of the American literary canon and its diversity in the 20th century.

Program

- The Legacy of World War II: Anxiety and Identity Crisis.

- The Affluent Society and its paradoxes: conformism and dissent.

- Postmodernity and Postmodernism.

- African-American fiction and Contemporary Women's Writing.

- Re-visions of the American literary canon.

Mandatory literature

J.D. Salinger; The Catcher in the Rye, Penguin, 1994 [1951]
Toni Morrison; Song of Solomon, Vintage, 1998 [1977]
Maxine H. Kingston; The Woman Warrior, Picador, 1981 [1975]
Paul Auster; Travels in the Scriptorium, 2006

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
	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	104,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam - 100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

According to FLUP Regulations