Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Themes of Literature in Portuguese

Code

722091126

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Estudos Portugueses

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Teresa Araújo

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1) To improve literary texts reading skills.
2) To apply with proficiency theoretical and methodological devices.
3) To know specific features of Portuguese Language Literature, considering connections among universal literature.
4) To review the Portuguese Language Literature contributions for the world´s literature.
5) To reflect about differences of the Portuguese language in the context of literary creation.
6) To understand implications underlying the concept of Portuguese Language Literature.
7) To acquire appropriate training concerning research development and knowledge production in the domain of Portuguese Language Literature.

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

The course focuses on literary reinvention phenomenon as part of literary creation itself. It studies creative and recreative practices of classical fabula developed in Portuguese until the end of 20th century, in the context of other European cultures. For this purpose, Portuguese and Brazilian fabulários are considered as well as the reinvention of canonical authors, such as Sá de Miranda, Francisco Manuel de Melo, Bocage and Almeida Garrett, a. o.. The relationship between creative and epochal poetic practices is analyzed and the axiological transformations of fabula’s themes are deepened. The course develops a critical analysis of the rhetorical and/or poetic framework for theme’s renovation ant the auto-reflexivity that accompanied it. It concludes by discussing the purpose of continuous literary reinvention, showing new perspectives to be studied.

Bibliography

Almeida, Vieira e Cascudo, Luís da Câmara (eds) (1961): Grande fabulário de Portugal, do Ultramar Português e do Brasil, 2 vols, Lisboa, Fólio.
Blackham, H. J. (1985): The Fable as Literature, London and Dover, New Hampshire, The Athlone Press.
Boivin, Jeanne-Marie, Cerquiligni-Toulet, Jacqueline, Harf-Lancner, Laurence (orgs.) (2011): Les fables avant La Fontaine, Genève, Droz.
\"Catálogo\" in A Fábula na literatura portuguesa: catálogo e história crítica, www.memoriamedia.net/fabula.
Dandrey, Patrick (2012): La fabrique des Fables, Paris, Klincksieck.
Pereira, Luciano (2007): A fábula em Portugal. Contributos para a história e caracterização da fábula literária, Porto, Profedições.
Perry, Ben Edwin (1965): Babrius and Phaedrus Fables, Cambridge, Massachusetts-London, Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library.
Thomas, Noel (1975): Theories of the Fable in the Eighteenth Century. Nova Iorque-Londres. Columbia University Press

Teaching method

The course assumes an expositive strategy, based on theoretical and critical contributions about the genre studied and considering the auto-reflexivity that is part of creative practices. However, the programmatic improvement foresees students’ active participation. They receive instructions concerning theoretical and literary texts to be discussed and commented during the classes and their presentation in class is previously scheduled and accompanied through tutorial support.

Evaluation method

Final assessment includes student’s participation, the written version of a research work and it’s oral presentation.

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