English Literature - 20th Century Narrative

Code:

LLC089

Acronym:

LIN_20

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	English Literature

Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt/course/view.php?id=3701
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 (Two Foreign Languages)	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

Kowledge of novels of established aesthetic and cultural reputation in the wide and multifarious literary scene of the English literature of the second half of the twentieth century. Exploration of the relations between the text and the world in the diverse historical picture which includes the colonial legacy and the range of possibilities opening after the Empire and the Second Worg War.

Learning outcomes and competences

The understanding of literature as a qualified aesthetic experience and as a critical instrument for the scrutiny of ways of life and conscience working as a challenge to the reader's personal and social practice.
Stimulus to the awareness of basic concepts and perspectives involved in literary textual analysis and interpretation.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

English Literature - the second half of the Twentieth Century.

The programme selects some novels of strategic import in the canon of the English novel. This choice is forcibly debatable given the wide range of possibilities in the time under scrutiny, and it can be introduced through some guidelines: the enigmas of faith and human agency (The End of the Affair), the anxieties involved in a personal and national identity in the making (Wide Sargasso Sea), coming of age in a landscape of despondency (The Cement Garden), kitchen tyrants, masters of the nation - private stories of the land of the pure (Shame), and looking back with nostalgia to a paradise that never was (The Remains of the Day).

Obligatory readings:

Graham Grenne, The End of the Affair (1951), Vintage Classics, London: Vintage, 2004. ISBN 978-0-099-47844-7

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Penguin Books, London: Penguin, 1997. ISBN 0-14-018983-1

Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden (1978), Pan Books in association with Jonathan Cape, London: Picador, 1980. ISBN 0-330-25975-X

Salman Rushdie, Shame (1983), Vintage, London: Vintage, 1995. ISBN 0-09-957861-1

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remais of the Day (1989), Faber Modern Classics, London: Faber, 1989. ISBN 978-0-571-32273-2


Secondary/optional bibliography:

D. C. R. A. , Goonetilleke, Salman Rushdie, Macmillan Modern Novelists, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1998. ISBN 0-333-63673-2

Helen Carr,  Jean Rhys, Northcote in association with The British Council, Plymouth: 1996. ISBN 0-7463-0717-9

Jeremy Hawthorn, Studying the Novel: an introduction,  Bloomsbury, London and Oxford: 2016. ISBN 9781472575111

Kiernan Ryan, Ian McEwan, Northcote House in association with The British Council, Plymouth: 1994. ISBN 0-7463-0742-X

Peter Mudford, Graham Greene, Northcote House in association with The British Council, Plymouth: 1996. ISBN 0-7463-0758-6

Michael R. Reder, ed. , Conversations with Salman Rushdie,  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson: 2000. ISBN 1-57806-185-7

W. J. West, The Quest for Graham Greene,  Phoenix, London: 1997. ISBN 0-75380-136-1

Mandatory literature

Greene Graham; The End of the Affair, vintage books, 2001. ISBN: 978-0-009-47844-7
Rhys Jean; Wide Sargasso Sea, Penguin Books, 1997. ISBN: 0-14-018983-1
McEwan Ian; The Cement Garden, Picador, 1978. ISBN: 0-330-25975-X
Rushdie, Salman; Shame, Vintage, 1983. ISBN: 0-09-957861-1
Ishiguro, Kazuo; The Remains of the Day, faber & faber, 1989. ISBN: 978-0-571-32273-2

Complementary Bibliography

Carr, Helen; Jean Rhys, Northcote Haouse in association with The British Council, 1996. ISBN: 0-7463-0717-9
Goonetilleke, D. C. R. A.; Salman Rushdie, Macmillan, 1998. ISBN: 0-333-63673-2
Hawthorn, Jeremy; Studying the Novel: An Introduction, Bloomsbury, 2016. ISBN: 9781472575111
Mudford, Peter; Graham Greene, Northcote House in association with The British Council, 1996. ISBN: 0-7463-0758-6
Reder, Michael R.; Conversations with Salman Rushdie, University Press of Mississippi, 2000. ISBN: 1-57806-185-7
Ryan, Kiernan; Ian McEwan, Northcote House in association with The British Council, 1994. ISBN: 0-7463-0742
West, W. J.; The Quest for Graham Greene, Phoenix, 1997. ISBN: 0-75380-136-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and Tutorial classes

keywords

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

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

 Exam - 70%.
 Cooperation in class: 30%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Apliccable only to the final exam. 

Observations

Re-sitting for the final exam.