English Literature - Modernism

Code:

LLC093

Acronym:

LIM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	English Literature

Instance: 2017/2018 - 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	32	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162
			2
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	3	-	6	52	162
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

Modernism in the twentieth century English literature. This programme outlines a path of continuities and ruptures from the end of nineteenth century Victorians and Aesthets into the twentieth century English Modernists. T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, in poetry, as welll as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf in prose naratives, will be studied as dominant influences in contemporary British literary traditions. Furthermore, a selective reading of critical and theoretical texts, from various ideological matrices, will provide a useful critical background to students in their approach to literature. Students will be requested to confront poetic praxis with an understanding of a number of reading and interpreting procedures, based upon their knowledge of critical and theoretical materials.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be able to distinguish the literary movements associatedwith the various authors studied in class, through the reading and analysis of their specific poetic writings.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

n.a.

Program

1. Introduction 2. Turning points from Victorianism and Decadence to the new 20th century poetic currents. 3. Modernist poetics 3.1. Theoretical viewpoint: new directions in poetics and the importance of linguistics; 3.2. Modernist writing in poetry; 3.2.3. T.S. Eliot; 3.2.4. Ezra Pound; 4. The Modernist novel; 4.1. James Joyce and Ulysses; 4.2. Virginia Woolf and Mrs Dalloway.

Mandatory literature

Eliot T. S. 1888-1965; The^complete poems and plays of T. S. Eliot. ISBN: 0-571-088570-0
Pound Ezra; Selected Poems by Ezra Pound. Ed. with Introd. by T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber, 1964
Pound Ezra; Literary Essays by Ezra Pound. Ed. with Introd. by T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber, 1960
Pound Ezra 1885-1972; The^cantos of Ezra Pound. ISBN: 0-571-04898-6
Joyce James 1882-1941; A^portrait of the artist as a young man. ISBN: 978-0-19-953644-3
Woolf Virginia 1882-1941; Mrs. Dalloway. ISBN: 0-14-018569-0

Complementary Bibliography

CORCORAN, Neil; English Poetry Since 1940, Longman, 1993
DAY, Gary (ed.). ; British Poetry 1900-1950: aspects of tradition, St Martin's Press, 1995
DRAPER, R.P; An Introduction to Twentieth Century Poetry in English, Macmillan, 1999
EVERETT, Barbara; Poets in their Time: Essays on English Poetry from Donne to Larkin., O.U.P, 1992
HAMILTON, Ian; The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, O.U.P, 1994
MORRISON, Blake; The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s, Methuen, 1986
NICHOLLS, Peter; Modernisms: A Literary Guide, Macmillan, 1995
OUSBY, Ian (ed.); The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. 2nd edn. , C.U.P., 1993
PERKINS, David; A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After, Harvard U.P., 1987
SINFIELD, Alan (ed); Society and Literature 1945-1970, Methuen, 1983
THWAITE, Anthony; Twentieth-Century English Poetry: an Introduction, Heinemann, 1979
WARD, John Powell; The English Line: from Wordsworth to Larkin, Macmillan, 1991
WELCH, Robert (ed.); The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, O.U.P., 1996

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, seminars, and tutorials.

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Students will have to attend a minimum 75% of all lessons, except in those cases where special legal provisions apply.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam grade: 100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

not applicable

Internship work/project

n.a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

not applicable

Classification improvement

Please see the Feculty's current "Normas de Avaliação" [Guidelines for Assessment], "Art. 12.º – Melhoria de classificação"