English Literature - Modernism

Code:

LLC093

Acronym:

LIM

Instance: 2015/2016 - 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
LLC	40	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LRI	0	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The aim of this course is the study of modernism in England in its literary, cultural and institutional components. 

Learning outcomes and competences

Upon completing this subject, students should have acquired diversified though general understanding of the literature and culture of the first decades of the 20th century in the West, especially in England. Moreover, they should have developed the conceptual means for analysing the influence and the importance of modernism in its literary, cultural and institutional consequences in western societies, especially in England and the United States, for the course of the 20th century and until the present day.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Cultural interventions I: ideas

T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot: ideas on literature and art.

 

Cultural interventions II: projects

Anthologies, magazines, movements and manifestoes: the Georgian anthologies; anthologies and the imagist movement; Blast magazine and vorticism.

 

Cultural interventions III: means

Literary magazines and book edition; patrons; the universities.

 

Cultural interventions IV: results

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", by T. S. Eliot; Hugh SelwynMauberley, by Ezra Pound;  Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf.

 

Reading list:

Eliot, T. S., Collected Poems 1909-1962. London: Faber, 2002

Eliot, T. S. Selected Essays. London: Faber, 1999

Hulme, T. E. Selected Writings. Routledge: London, 2003.

Pound, Ezra, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound. New Directions: New York, 1968.

Pound, Ezra, Selected Poems 1908-1959. London: Faber, 2004.

Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Mandatory literature

Eliot, T. S., 1888-1965; Collected poems 1909-1962
Eliot, T. S., 1888-1965; Selected essays. ISBN: 0-571-06844-8
Hulme, T. E.; Speculations
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972; Literary essays of Ezra Pound. ISBN: 0-571-05705-5
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972; Selected poems 1908-1959. ISBN: 0-571-10907-1
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941; Mrs Dalloway. ISBN: 0-19-283430-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and tutorial classes

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Participação presencial	30,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Active participation in classes: 30% 
Exam: 70%

Classification improvement

Only applicable to the final exam

Observations

Participation in classes includes an oral presentation, to be submittted in written form after being discussed in class.