English Literature II

Code:

MEAAM014

Acronym:

LI2

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Anglo-American Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Masters in Anglo-American Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEAA	8	Study Plan since 2007/2008	1	-	9	80	243

Teaching language

Português (English whenever there are students who are not speakers of Portuguese)

Objectives

The study of modernism in England, especially through the works of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the course students are supposed to have acquired the knowledge and developed capacities that will enable them: 1) to have a wide and rich knowledge of the works of T. S.Eliot and James Joyce included in the present programme; 2) intellectually to move with ease within the field of modernist studies, especially with respect to modernism in England; 3) to be able to deal with the meanings and importance of modernism in the literary and cultural history of the 20th century in the western world; 4) to understand the processes that give representations a culturally constructed side, as in the example of modernist representations of place; 5) to be able to assess the place of modernism in the shaping of our contemporary world. 

Working method

Presencial

Program

Modernism, understood as the historic and cultural configuration of rupture, innovation and avant garde in the early 20th century, had a prevailing urban and cosmopolitan character. But when it instituted cities as centres both of attraction for culture makers and of diffusion for their works, modernism was not only creating from those centres but was also in a way creating them, conferring on them certain dimensions that would become part of the way the 20th century came to represent them. The present course will be centred on the study of those works by T. S. Eliot and James Joyce that have a more direct relevance in the composition of the images of London and Dublin, and will pay special attention to the analysis of structural, thematic, rhetorical and other processes through which these cities acquire a textual dimension. 

Mandatory literature

Eliot, T. S., 1888-1965; Collected poems 1909-1962
Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Ulysses. ISBN: 0-14-018559-3
Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Dubliners. ISBN: 978-0-19-953643-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course will be run on a seminar basis

keywords

Humanities > Literature > Literary criticism
Humanities > Literature > European literature > Germanic literature > English literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	163,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Total:	208,00

Eligibility for exams

a) active participation in the seminars 
b) an oral presentation on a predefined subject 
c) a written essay to be presented and discussed at the end of the semester 

Students must attend to at least 75 % of the seminar sessions.

Calculation formula of final grade

Weighted average of: a) active participation in the seminars (including the oral presentation): 20%  + b) final essay: 80%

 

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

n/a

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

n/a

Classification improvement

Repetition of the final essay in order to improve final classification is not allowed.

Observations

There is no re-sitting for any of the evaluation components.