UNIVERSIDADE
FEDERAL DA BAHIA
INSTITUTO
DE LETRAS
DEPARTAMENTO
DE LETRAS GERMÂNICAS
YEAR:
2012 SEMESTER: 01
O Conto
de Língua Inglesa
Viviane
Carvalho da Annunciação
Classes: Wednesdays and Fridays/ 18h 30 to 20h 30
COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Ø Raise students’ awareness of the structural elements of short story:
Ø Provide a theoretical and practical framework that buttress critical
readings of short stories;
TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Ø Critical readings of theoretical texts related to short stories;
Ø
Interpretative readings of
short stories;
GRADING CRITERIA
Ø Group work: critical reviews about texts and poems: 1/3
Ø Mid-term activity (at home): 1/3
Ø
Final activity (in class):
1/3
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Ø
You must attend 70% of the
classes;
Ø
If you are 30min late you
will be considered absent;
SCHEDULE
March
Ø
07-03 Presentation of the Course
Ø
09-03 Theory (DEFINITION): Cortázar, Julio
“Some Aspects of the Short Story”.
Reading: Poe, Edgar Allan.
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”.
Ø
*
14-03 HAND IN SUMMARY CORTÁZAR AND POE
Theory (DEFINITION):
Cortázar, Julio “Some Aspects of the Short Story”.
Reading: Poe, Edgar Allan.
“Murders in the Rue Morgue”.
Ø 16-03 Theory (DEFINITION): Piglia, Ricardo.
“Teses sobre o Conto”.
Practice: Hemingway, Ernest.
“The Killers”
Ø
*
21-03 HAND IN SUMMARY PIGLIA AND
HEMINGWAY
Theory (DEFINITION): Piglia, Ricardo.
“Teses sobre o Conto”.
Practice: Hemingway, Ernest.
“The Killers”
Ø
23-03 Theory (NARRATOR): Benjamin, Walter. “O
Narrador”
Practice: Fitzgerald, Scott. “News of Paris”.
Ø
*
28-03 (Conference) HAND IN SUMMARY BENJAMIN
& FITZGERALD
Ø
*
30-03 (Conference) QUESTIONS TO HAND
IN ABOUT:
Theory (DEFINITION &
NARRATOR): All the texts studied.
Practice: Joyce,
James. “A Little Cloud”
April
Ø
*
04-04 (Conference) ANALYSIS TO HAND
IN ABOUT:
Theory:
Allende, Isabel. “The Short Story”
Practice: Chopin,
Kate. “The Awakening”
Ø
06-04 NO CLASS – Holy
Friday
Ø
11-04 Feedback
Theory (PLOT)
Egan, Kieran. “What is a plot?”
Practice: Fitzgerald, Scott.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”.
Ø
*
13-04 ACTIVITY
TO HAND IN (IN CLASS) about:
Theory (PLOT)
Egan, Kieran. “What is a plot?”
Practice: Fitzgerald, Scott.
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”.
Ø
18-04 Theory (Setting, Mood, Atmosphere)
Practice: Steinback, John. “The
Chrysanthemums”
Ø
20-04 Theory (Setting, Mood, Atmosphere)
Practice: Walker, Alice. “The
Flowers”
Ø
25-04 Theory (Setting, Mood, Atmosphere)
Practice:
Joyce, James. “Clay”
Ø
*
27-04 ACTIVITY TO HAND IN
(IN CLASS) about:
Theory: All
theory
Practice: All
short stories
May
Ø
02-05 Theory (CHARACTER): Candido,
Antonio. “A Personagem
de
Ficção”.
Practice: Joyce, James. “The Dead”.
Ø 04-05 Theory (CHARACTER): Candido,
Antonio. “A Personagem
de Ficção”.
Practice: Movie. “The Dead”
Questions: “A Personagem de Ficção” and “The Dead”.
Ø
09-05 Theory (CHARACTER): Candido,
Antonio. “A Personagem
de Ficção”.
Practice: Keegan,
Claire. “Antartica”.
Ø 11-05 Theory (Character)
Practice:
Keegan, Claire. “Antartica”.
Ø 16-05 Theory (Character)
Practice: O’Connor, Frank.
“My Oedipus Complex”.
Ø
*18-05 ACTIVITY TO HAND IN (IN CLASS)
about:
Theory: All Theory
Practice: “Antartica” and
“My Oedipus Complex”
Ø 23-05 Theory (Time) Nunes,
Benedito. “O Tempo na Narrativa”
Practice: Woolf, Virginia.
“A Haunted House”
Ø 25-05 Theory (Time) Nunes,
Benedito. “O Tempo na Narrativa”
Practice: Hemingway, Ernest.
“Cat in the Rain”.
Ø 30-05 Theory (Future time)
Practice: Bradbury, Ray.
“Orange they were”.
June
Ø
01-06 Theory (Future time)
Practice: Asimov, Isaac.
“True Love”.
Ø
*
06-06 NO CLASS – MID TERM ACTIVITY
(Short Story Analysis)
Ø
*
08-06 NO CLASS (Emenda de feriado) –
M. T. ACTIVITY (Short Story Analysis)
Ø
13-06 Theme (slavery and relationships):
Faulkner, William. “That Evening Sun”.
Ø 15-06 Feedback on the activity.
Ø
20-06 Theme (slavery, mystery): Faulkner,
William. “A Rose for Emily”.
Ø
22-06 Theme (feminism). Parker, Dorothy. “The
Standard of Living”.
Ø
27-06 Theme (mystery). Capote, Truman.
“Miriam”.
Ø
*
29-06 FINAL ACTIVITY – IN CLASS
July
Ø
04-07 Results;
Ø
06-07 Feedback;
