Obras da Literatura Mundial (not translated)
Code
711091119
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Abel Barros Baptista
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Study several literary works of the XIXth and XXth century.
b) Develop critical and conceptualization skills through the reading of the studied works.
c) Acquire skills to propose new perspectives of the selected texts.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
We start by considering that literature opens up a frontier between several discourses and that its main purpose is to reveal skills able to enlarge the experience that the texts allow. We propose a theme: the quotidian.
But how to think about the quotidian in/with literature? How to distinguish its characteristics, how to preserve its inner contradictory construction, continually disjointed between general and particular, between ordinary and sublime, between habit and surprise? How does literature work on the quotidian?
To amplify our suggestions, on one hand, well build a critical reflection on the quotidian by reading Bioy Casares (La invención de Morel), Flaubert (Madame Bovary), Perec (La vie mode demploi), Joyce (Ulysses), Sartre (La Nausée), and making that way an alliance with concepts like: distraction (Pascal), habit (Heidegger), memory (Bergson).
On the other hand, we will extract conversion points, disrupting moments, some sense extension forms of the quotidian experience and bring them together with other texts: Minima Moralia by Adorno, Mythologies by Barthes, Critique de la vie quotidienne by Henri Lefebvre, La société du spectacle by Debord e Linvention du quotidien by Michel de Certeau.
Bibliography
Bioy Casares, Adolfo, A invenção de Morel (La invención de Morel), tradução de Miguel Serras Pereira e Maria Teresa Sá, Lisboa: Antígona, 1984.
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary, tradução de João Pedro de Andrade, Lisboa : Relógio dÁgua, 1991.
Joyce, James, Ulisses (Ulysses), tradução de João Palma-Ferreira, Lisboa: Livros do Brasil, 1989.
Perec, Georges, A vida modo de usar (La vie mode demploi), tradução de Pedro Tamen, Lisboa: Presença, 1989.
Sartre, Jean-Paul, A náusea (La nausée), tradução de António Coimbra Martins, Lisboa : Guimarães, 1965.
Teaching method
We will be reading critical texts and literary texts and drawing some conceptualization lines that build theories. We will also analyze and discuss theses, build problems.
Evaluation method
Students are expected to write a paper of about 5 to 9 pages length, by developing problems that have been discussed during the classes. 50%
They will also have to pass a written exam. 50%