20th-Century North American Literature

Code:

LLC125

Acronym:

LNA_XX

Instance: 2011/2012 - 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	45	Joint Lauguage Plan -Englis/German	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan - English/Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/English	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-English	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With German	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) with Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The aim of this programme is to look to American cities from their very origins to reveal a special meaning. The spectrum of such meanings – real and conjectured – are reflected, in the 20th century, in the emergence of Modernism, and in the legacy of World War II. Drawing on a variety of critical theoretical, historical, and cultural sources, this course will further aim to promote the contextualisation and study of influential moments in American narrative fiction. The literary works included in the main bibliography are representative of the American literary tradition and their relationship with one of the prevailing themes within that same tradition: the subject of the city in an America that offered a New Jerusalem and other city images in which the urban reality acquires the characteristics of a peculiar space, simultaneously symbolic and physical, in its plurality and complexity. As we move through the writers who constitute this programme, we see that reading the text has been a form of reading the city and its values. All of these urban visions have taken many shapes, assuming different thematic and literary configurations in the context of the present course (see programme).

Program

- Nature, the frontier, and the pastoral ideal;
- Small town, metropolis, megalopolis;
- The self and the city (self vs. society);
- Modernism in America; tradition and innovation;
- After World War II: identity crisis and the diversity of the American novel.

Mandatory literature

Ernest Hemingway; The Sun Also Rises
William Faulkner; As I Lay Dying
J.D.Salinger; The Catcher in the Rye
Ralph Ellison; Invisible Man

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes; tutorial sessions.

keywords

Humanities > Literature > American literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00		2012-02-11
	Trabalho escrito	31,00		2012-02-11
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	73	2012-02-11
	Total:	73,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are supposed to attend 75 % of all classes .

Calculation formula of final grade

Projects and written essays - 30%
Final exam- 70

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

According to FLUP regulations.