Modern and Contemporary North American Literature

Code:

LLC124

Acronym:

LNAC

Instance: 2011/2012 - 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	8	Study Plan - Applied Languages: Business Relations	2	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	3	-	6	52	162
LLC	105	Joint Lauguage Plan -Englis/German	2	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan - English/Spanish	2	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/English	2	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-English	2	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With German	2	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) with Spanish	2	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	2	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	2	-	6	52	162

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 tendencies in the American novel of the 21st century

Program

- The Legacy of World War II: Anxiety and Identity Crisis;
- The affluent society and its paradoxes: conformism and dissent;
- African American fiction
- Postmodernity and Postmodernism;
- The journey narrative, the narratine of the quest and postmodern quest.

Mandatory literature

Jack Kerouac; On the Road, Penguin Deluxe Edition, 2007 [1957]
Toni Morrison; Song of Solomon, Vintage Books, 1988 [1977]
Paul Auster; The New York Trilogy, Faber and Faber, 2004 [1987]
Cormac McCarthy; The Road, Picador, 2008 [2006]

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical, practical, and tutorial classes

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
	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	104,00
	Exame	2,00		2012-07-14
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Students must attend 75% 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

Not applicable