2023
English Literature and Arts
Name: English Literature and Arts
Code: LLT13509L
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
Learning Goals
During the semester, students will be invited to study some examples of English literary production, under the axis of Memory, Pain, Loss and Trauma, analysed under different literary genres, in three determining epochs, and subsequent intertextual representations, materialized in various artistic domains: music, theatre, 7th art, painting, sculpture and performance. At the end of the semester they will be able to prospect the presence of English Literature in the arts, over different periods and to analyse the impact of literature in the different artistic manifestations.
Contents
1. Elizabethan Age:
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (1599-1602)
Artistic representations of Shakespeare
2. Victorian Era:
Students can choose one of the following works:
Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (1818), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886); The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (1890), or Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Fantastic Literature and Cinema
The evolution of the concept of villain.
3. 20th and 21st century (From Postmodernity to Post-Truth)
Analysis of one of the following works:
Waiting for Godot or Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett (1948 and 1960); Mountain Language or Betrayal, by Harold Pinter (1988); The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks (1984)
The art of Damien Hirst, Gilbert and George, Marc Quinn, David Bowie, Nick Cave, etc. and the connection of MPLT with the neurosciences and the notion of consciousness.
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare (1599-1602)
Artistic representations of Shakespeare
2. Victorian Era:
Students can choose one of the following works:
Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (1818), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886); The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (1890), or Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
Fantastic Literature and Cinema
The evolution of the concept of villain.
3. 20th and 21st century (From Postmodernity to Post-Truth)
Analysis of one of the following works:
Waiting for Godot or Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett (1948 and 1960); Mountain Language or Betrayal, by Harold Pinter (1988); The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks (1984)
The art of Damien Hirst, Gilbert and George, Marc Quinn, David Bowie, Nick Cave, etc. and the connection of MPLT with the neurosciences and the notion of consciousness.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical and practical classes including lectures and using media contents that are uploaded in the beginning of every in the moodle. Assessment is based in compliance with the article 102nd of the Academic Regulation of the University of Évora.
a) Continuous assessment includes at least two assessment components, one of which a written test, whose grade cannot be less than 8 values.
A percentage of 50% is attributed to the written test, and an equal percentage to the evaluation elements proposed during the semester.
b)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.
a) Continuous assessment includes at least two assessment components, one of which a written test, whose grade cannot be less than 8 values.
A percentage of 50% is attributed to the written test, and an equal percentage to the evaluation elements proposed during the semester.
b)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.
Teaching Staff
- Carla Isabel Ferreira de Castro [responsible]
