British Cultural Identities - 2nd semester
Code
722121052
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Ingleses e Norte-Americanos
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Iolanda de Freitas Ramos
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
English
Objectives
a) To become more learned in neo-Victorianism, revivals and new utopias in the 20th-21st centuries;
b) To rediscover Victorian Studies in the areas of society, politics, economics, aesthetics and the arts;
c) To discuss identity (de)constructions of possession and appropriation of the past from a neo-Victorian perspective;
d) To use a various corpus of textual and visual records so as to make possible a metacultural problematization and to articulate Neo-Victorian Studies with Utopian Studies;
e) To do critical readings/reviews and relevant thematic and bibliographical research in the field of Cultural Studies, Neo-Victorian Studies and Utopian Studies;
f) To produce a research paper on one of the topics addressed in the course syllabus.
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Subject matter
Neo-Victorianism, Revivals and New Utopias (20th-21st centuries):
1. Cultural temporalities: concepts and methodologies.
2. Retrophilia and neo-Victorianism: intertextual practices and cultural appropriations of the past.
3. Retrofuturism and utopianism: cultural practices and aesthetic representations.
4. Cultural heritage, postmodernity and globalization.
Bibliography
- Arias, R. & Pulham P. (Eds.) (2010). Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Possessing the Past. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Boehm-Schnitker, N. & Gruss S. (Eds.) (2014). Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations. London and New York: Routledge.
- Heilman, A. & Llewellyn, M. (2010). Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kucich, J. & Sadoff, D. F. (Eds.) (2000). Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.
- Sargent, L. T. (2010). Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Vandermeer, J. (2011). The Steampunk Bible. New York: Abrams Image.
Teaching method
Presentation of the topics of the course syllabus by the lecturer; interactive methodology, based on audiovisual resources and support texts, and contributions by the students based on the reading of primary sources and contemporary analyses for oral presentation and/or group discussion; tutorial supervision of the critical readings/reviews and/or the thematic and bibliographical research tasks related to the final research paper on one of the topics addressed in the course syllabus.
Evaluation method
A regular attendance is mandatory for participation in the debates and short research tasks, plus oral presentation of the table of contents of the final paper (50%); production of a final research paper (50%).
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