Contemporary Poetics
Code
722091139
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Fernando Cabral Martins
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To deepen the knowledge of literary currents, which, during the 20th and the 21st century have transformed the manner of writing and the relationship between writing and reading.
b) To study the relevance of contemporaneity poetics, within the frame of a production in collaboration with various art forms, literary, plastic or cinematographic
c) To analyze concrete forms of relating word and image on a page and in a book.
d) To analyze forms of literary production in electronic environment.
e) To develop the capacity of identifying and increasing the more experimental elements of contemporary literary production, by studying its incidence in editorial modes.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1- Text and the dependence on context: «Pierre Ménard» by J. L. Borges. The contemporary unravelling of that dependence: Deleuze and Guattari´s «rhizome».
2- The text as a process. Principles of Genetic Criticism: towards a science of writing.
3- The opposition between linguistic and bibliographic code. Effects of graphic materiality: William Blake as a reference; literary journals; different types of graphic novels; Gonçalo M. Tavares´ fiction with photographs.
4- The combination of verbal, plastic and phonographic texts: relations book-cd, book-dvd. Examples of Pessoa, Cesariny, Haroldo de Campos.
5- The performing quality as a concept and as an Avant-Garde vector: the paradigmatic case of Almada Negreiros, the manifests, the conferences and the theatre. Alberto Pimenta as a performer.
6- Montage as a mode of written production: the examples of Huismans, Eliot, Burroughs, Alexandre O´Neill, Herberto Helder, Godard, César Monteiro.
Bibliography
BORNSTEIN, Georges, Material Modernism. The Politics of the Page, 2001
LANDOW,Georges P., Hypertext 3.0, Baltimore, The John Hopkins University Press, 2006
LOXLEY, James, Performativity, Londres, Routledge, 2007
SHOLES, Robert, Paradoxy of Modernism, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006
SELL, Mike (ed.), Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange, Nova Iorque, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
Teaching method
Exposure to historical and theoretical elements and its discussion in class, interspersed with the analysis of concrete texts.
Evaluation method
Presentation of work in class, including a text analysis of about 5 pages, as well as a written essay of about 10 pages.