Literature and Ideology
Code
722111061
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The student must:
1. become familiar with relevant critical discussions and ideas concerning the studies in literature and ideology;
2. acquire systematicaly and historically organized information on the course topics;
3. acquire information that will enable her/him to recognize the historical context in which the ideological discourse occurs in sellected literary works;
4. become a competent critic of ideological manifestations in literary texts and works;
5. be able to organize and produce an essay for oral discussion and written presentation.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. Ideology in literature: historical and theoretical framing of the question;
2. Ideology and utopia. 2.1. utopian concepts of society (Saint Simon and Fourier); 2.2 modernism in the streets: Baudelaire and the notion of the hero of modern life;
3. Literature and the institution of value. 3.1. Literature and the great causes: the death penalty issue in France (Victor Hugo);
4. Writing and social intervention. 4.1. From social violence to the revolution of poetical language. 4.2. the notion of intellectual protest; 4.3. Rhetoric and action: the manifestos;
5. Ideology in the contemporary novel: 5.1. building the norm. 5.2. Character and evaluation; 5.3. the \"roman à thèse\".
Bibliography
Cavanagh, J. (1995). Ideology in Critical Terms for Literary Study (Frank Lentricchia and Thomas MNaLauglin eds.). Chicago-London: The University of Chicago Press.
Eagleton, T.(1991). Ideology. An Introduction. London-New York: Verso.
Guimarães, F. (1996). Linguagem e ideologia. Porto: Lello Editores.
Hammon, P. (1984). Texte et ideologie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Quadrige.
Jameson, F. (2013). The Antinomies of Realism. Verso Books: London-New York.
Rastier, F. (1973). Littérature et idéologie in Essais de Sémiotique discursive. Paris: Mame, pp. 183-221
URL: http://www.revue-texto.net/Parutions/Essais-de-semiotique/pages183-221.pdf
Ricoeur, P. (1997). LIdéologie et lutopie. Paris: Seuil.
Tambling, J. (1991). Narrative and Ideology. Bristol: Open University Press.
Willimas, R. (1991). Writing in Society. London-New York: Verso.
Teaching method
Seminars: 60%; lectures: 40%.
1. seminars on topics of the syllabus focusing specifically on historic and theoretic issues; students will be introduced to methods of efficient organization of information and development of critical skills; reading critical studies and literary bibliography aims to provide students with significant scientific autonomy and the capacity to evaluate their learning progress; 2. supervised practical analysis of critical and literary texts chosen in the perspective of the course and relevant for their study and discussion with the group ;
3. Preparing students to produce an essay on a topic of the syllabus.
Evaluation method
Students are required to submit the following pieces of work for assessment:
1. two classroom assignments - oral presentations 40%;
2. one individual essay to be discussed oraly with the group (15 pages) - 60%.