Problematics in Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Code
73217100
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Teresa Botelho da Silva
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Other academic staff: Fernando Esperança Clara, Iolanda de Freitas Ramos, Isabel Oliveira Martins, Isabel Araújo Branco, João Paulo Ascenso
Learning outcomes:
a) To be able to identify and problematize areas of theoretical inquiry in literary and cultural studies;
b) To demonstrate competence in the critical analysis of theoretical texts, integrating them with the study of the selected literary and cultural corpus;
c) To engage in a intercultural and interdisciplinary critical debate;
d) To be able to develop advanced research direted towards an innovative study project;
e) To be able to structure and write an research project as preparation for a future thesis.
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
I. Borders and liminality in cultural and literary texts
II. Culture under dictatorship
III.Faces of war: repercussions of World War II in American culture
IV. Temporal temporalities
V.Pluralities in Iberian literatures: languages, nations, identities and comparative studies
VI. Travel and politics, the politics of travel – British travellers in Portugal in the first half of the 20th Century (the First Republic and the “New State” or Salazar’s dictatorship)
VII. History and memory: literary and cultural representations.
Bibliography
Agnew, Jean-Christophe and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., A Companion to Post-1945 America,Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006
Black, Shameen, Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Life of Others in Late Twentieth Century Novels. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010
Heilmann, Ann and Mark Llewellyn, Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty- First Century, 1999-2009. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Herf J., Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984
Randall, Martin, 9/11 and the Literature of Terror. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011
Singles, Karen, Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity. Berlin: De
Gruyter, 2012
Thompson, Carl, Travel Writing, London: Routledge, 2011.
Wicher, Andrzej and Piotr Spyra, Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature Revisited. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
Teaching method
Lectures - 50%
Practical classes - reading and debate - 50%
Evaluation method
Written research project