Methodologies in Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Code
73217101
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Carlos Ceia
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
- To develop competencies in scientific research allowing the formal production of a PhD thesis;
- To introduce the methodology of advanced scientific research in view of the production of new knowledge;
- To obtain knowledge on Postcolonial Literature;
- To communicate scientifically the results of an advanced research.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
Module I:
1. The epistemological questions
2. The advanced scientific research
3. The practical questions
4. The preparation and writing of a research project paper
5. Writing the thesis
6. The preparation of the public defense
Module II
I - Postcolonial Studies: Methodologies
1.1. Edward Said: Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism
1.2. Critics of Saids theories
II Postcolonial theory and English Literature: rereading canonical texts
2.1. Mimicry and subversion in Robinson Crusoe
2.2. The feminine voice and Otherness in Jane Eyre
III Poscolonial before the post-colonial: Joseph Conrads Youth and An Outpost of Progress
IV Postcolonial Re-writings: Youth (Coetzee)
Bibliography
- Ceia, C. (2012). Normas para Apresentação de Trabalhos Científicos (9ª ed. revista ed.). Lisboa: Presença.
- Ceia, C. (2013). Advanced Research Projects in the Humanities: New Trends on Literature, Languages, and Linguistics Studies\". Sino-US English Teaching, 10, pp. 903-913. doi:ISSN 1539-8072; online: ISSN 1935-9675
- Boehmer, Elleke (2005). Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Migrant Metaphors, Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press (2a ed.).
- Coelho, Teresa Pinto (2004). Ilhas, Batalhas e Aventura. Imagens de África no Romance de Império Britânico do Último Quartel do Século XIX e Início do Século XX. Lisboa: Colibri .
- Said, Edward (1993). Culture and Imperialism, London (Chatto & Windus).
Teaching method
Practical (40%) and theoretic (60%) classes, using technologies of information and communication, scientifc databases e library resources for social sciences and humanities research.
Evaluation method
Presentation of a research paper.