Elizabethan Literature
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2018-2019
01011554
Literature-Anglo-American Studies
Portuguese
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
A few lectures will provide the students with the required historical and theoretical background; most classes will be centered on the discussion of primary and secondary texts.
Learning Outcomes
The course provides students with general knowledge about the culture and the literature of the Elizabethan Golden Age, always bearing in mind the political issues at stake at the time. Both literary and critical texts will be discussed, thus creating the awareness of the changes in the critical fortune of literary texts in time. Literary texts will be read in the historical context of their production, in relation with previous conventions, and taking into account their potential for contemporaneity, that is, for making sense to readers in the 21st century, four centuries after having been written.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Shakespeare in Context
We will start by approaching Elizabethans´ use of convention in both poetry and drama, focusing on the intertextuality of the body of literary production under analysis. Given his place in the Western Canon, particular attention will be given to William Shakespeare’s work. “The Invention of the Human”, Harold Bloom’s key-category for reading Shakespeare, will be used as a tool to discuss the construction of modern subjectivity up to the contemporary globalized world. Sexual and ethnic identities, Alterity, the different nations inhabiting the British Isles, power and the imminence of death will be issues included in the approach to the literary texts to be discussed.
Head Lecturer(s)
Adriana Conceição Silva Pereira Bebiano Nascimento
Assessment Methods
Continuous evaluation
Other: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%
Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
Bloom, Harold (1999). Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books;
Garber, Marjorie (2004). Shakespeare After All. New York: Random House
Greenblatt, Stephen (2005). Renaissance Self-Fashioning. From More to Shakespeare. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press;
Hawkins, Harriet (1990). Classics and Trash: Traditions and Taboos in High Literature and Popular Modern Genres. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf;
Hollander, John & Kermode, Frank (1973). The Literature of Renaissance England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.