North-American Literature and Arts

Code: LLT13510L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

To develop the study, the reflection and the debate between teacher and students about certain authors of American Gothic Fiction and their correspondences to the Visual Arts and Cinema.

- Aesthetic Transgressions in American Gothic Fiction and in Contemporary Art 
- The perverse artist in Edgar Allan Poes and Nathaniel Hawthornes works. 
- No-Sayers in American Art and Literature: the example of Herman Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener
- The Gothic-Grotesque Vision in American Gothic Fiction and in Contemporary American Art.  
- The Expression of Terror in Abstract Expressionist Painting and in American Cinema. (Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning; Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton and David Lynch).

Teaching Methods

Use of multidisciplinary practices to stimulate transdisciplinary perspectives; placement of programmatic information in discussion with students; viewing documentaries, films and other cultural expressions that complement the reading of literary and critical reference works.
Evaluation: Students active participation and presence in classes; research abilities; reading and viewing practices; involvement in cultural activities; the quality of written essays and oral presentations in classes (1 test + 1 written research work).
Final Exam Evaluation (1st and 2nd , special and extraordinary calls) consists of a written test (100%). Students who score between 8 and 9.4 on the written test need to do an oral exam.