2023

Adv. Seminar Contemporary Literature II-English

Name: Adv. Seminar Contemporary Literature II-English
Code: LLT11307M
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The Curricular Unit of Contemporary English Literature II suggests a new dimensioning of the contemporary literature, having as a starting point the reflections acquired during the first semester, bearing in mind the texts that have been written after the second World War and focusing on an approach which stresses the search that literature suggests, through the analysis of 4 different literary genres.

Contents

CORPUS Drama:Samuel Beckett; John Osborne; Harold Pinter; David Hare; Sarah Kane.
Novel and Essay: Julian Barnes; Martin Amis; Ian McEwan; David Lodge; Salman Rushdie; Irvine Welsh. Poetry: Philip Larkin; Seamus J. Heaney; Ted Hughes; Roddy Doyle.
1. The post-modern condition in contemporary English literature. 2. Paradigms of emptiness: memory and identity as discourse 3. Silence as contemporary "voice".

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical seminars. The assessment will consist of one oral presentation and one written essay.

Teaching Staff

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