Code: | LA006 | Acronym: | CICON |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Cultural Studies - English |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Department of Anglo-American Studies |
Course/CS Responsible: | Bachelor in Applied Languages |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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LA | 70 | LA - Study Plan | 1 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
LLC | 15 | Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014 | 2 | - | 6 | 52 | 162 |
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To familiarize students with ethical and political problems which have proved decisive for the twentieth century in Britain.
To familiarize students with a set of works of distinction, of different types, and with their respective intellectual and social-historical contexts.
Students are expected to be able to recognize fundamental data in the context of Contemporary English (British) Culture, namely as regards the problematics of identity and of cultural memory. They are also expected to have acquired fundamental skills for cultural and literary analysis.
TITLE OF THE COURSE: A SENSE OF HISTORY: ISSUES OF IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
This course will examine the ways in which the problem of defining British national identity in an age of collapse or contestation of unitary assumptions – with the (re)emergence of competing nationalities within the United Kingdom, the end of the British Empire, socialism, feminism, post-modernism, etc. – has been equated with a sense of collective memory, in critical and/or celebratory mode.
The course includes discussion of several dimensions of British cultural production (the essay, poetry, literary narrative fiction and film) between the 1920s and the 1980s. The following works will be examined (listed in order of study):
1. George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (1941);
2. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), along with the film adaptation directed by Karel Reisz with script by Harold Pinter (1981);
3. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929);
4. Philip Larkin, selected poems;
5. Graham Swift, Waterland (1983).
N.B.:
1. Students are expected to purchase the works mentioned in the course programme (not necessarily in the editions listed in the Primary Bibliography), except for the poems of Philip Larkin.
2. Further bibliographical references will be given in class.
Exposition and discussion of the relevant historical and cultural contexts.
Analysis and critical commentary of the aforementioned texts.
Lectures, practical lessons, tutorials.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Exame | 100,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Estudo autónomo | 102,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 60,00 |
Total: | 162,00 |