Presented course programme and evaluation criteria + an introduction to Charlotte Bronte

16 Setembro 2019, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

For Next class:

Prepare a 300-word text on one of the points on the list "Why the arts are important" page 9 manual

Read the texts on Colm Tóibín's Bad Blood  and the Anglo Irish Agreement - pp 9-14 manual

If you did not attend class watch the documentations indicated in the calendar. 

 

Evaluation Criteria: 

At the end of this Curricular Unit students should have acquired the linguistic and practical skills required to write academic film and literary criticism in English and present the same type of analysis orally in class and they will be evaluated according to C2 language requirements in the four linguistic skills – reading, writing, speaking and listening.

 

40%: Written test based on theoretical elements of the program.

30%:  1,500-word written academic essay based on an analysis of the novel read or films viewed during the semester using the literary and film analysis techniques presented during the semester and the theoretical articles reviewed.

The essay can involve a comparative analysis of a theme presented in two of the novels, a reflection on adaptation from novel to film, graphic novel or art, or a reflection on how a theme of contemporary interest is portrayed in one of the set novels and in this case paying particular attention to how the book read shed light on the subject.

30%: Continuous Assessment. As teaching will be task-based and interactive a system of continuous evaluation with specific moments of written and oral evaluation will be applied. The Continuous Assessment mark will be made up of grades arising from class participation as well as set oral and written assignments. The mandatory student presentation is worth 50% of this grade.

 

 

Set Reading:

Anthology for “English in the World of the Arts: C2” available at the beginning of the semester. 

Students must also read at least one the following set text:

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre, Penguin Classics, 1847.

Lowell, Catherine The Madwoman Upstairs, Touchstone, 2016.

Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea, Penguin Modern Classics, 1966

Tóibín, Colm. Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Picador, 1987.

 

Students must also examine closely the following adaptations of the novel Jane Eyre:

Jane Eyre: The Graphic Novel (Original Text) Amy Corzine (Adapter), Charlotte Bronte (Author), Clive Bryant (Ed), John M. Burns (Ill), Terry Wiley, (Ill), Joe Sutliff Sanders (Trans), Jo Wheeler (Designer) Classic Comics, 2009.
Jane Eyre (2003) Paula Rego Enitharmon Press.

Jane Eyre (film) Thomas Stevenso, (Dir.) 1944.

Jane Eyre (film) Franco Zeferelli (Dir). 1996.

Reference Reading:

Barnet, Sylvan and Cain, William, E. A Short Guide to Writing about Literature 12^thEd. Longman, 2011.

Cartmell, Deborah. (ed) A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation. Wiley & Blackwell. 2012.

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film 5^th Ed, Longman, 2001.

Fricker, Miranda. Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Gilbert, Sandra M. Gubar  Susan The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literacy Imagination 

Saraceni, Marco. The Language of Comics. Routledge, 2003.

 

Secondary Filmography

Cukor, George (Dir) Gaslight, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, DVD. 1944.

Minghella, Antony (Dir) The Talented Mr Ripley. Miramax & Paramount. DVD. 1999.