Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Literary Criticism: Culture and History

Code

722160000

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas

Credits

10

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

a) Presentation of the problems of literary analysis.
b) Reading and commentary of texts under specific methodologies.
c) Initiation to critical work with practical examples and reading propositions after several theoretical proposals.

Prerequisites

Bachelor degree or equivalent

Subject matter

A.Literary Criticism: from impressionismo to science.
1. Subjectivity and rigorous analysis.
2. Theory and confrontation of different propositions.
3. Communication and rupture.

B. The pleasure of the text.
1. Polissemy and reading.
2. Didactics and understanding.
3. Methodologies.

C. Critical points of view.
1.France: from Sainte-Beuve to Proust.
2. England: from new criticism to Cultural studies.
Portugal: From the «presença» critics to our times.

Bibliography

- Stefano LAZZARIN e Mariella COLIN. 2007. La critique littéraire du XXe siècle en France et en Italie. Presses Universitaires de Caen.
- Tzvetan TODOROV. 2007. La littérature en péril. Paris: Flammarion.
- Amor SÉOUD. 1997. Pour une didactique de la littérature. Paris: Hatier-Didier.
- Eduardo Prado COELHO. 1982. Os universos da crítica. Lisboa: Edições 70.
- Anthony EASTHOPE. 1991. Literary into cultural studies. London and New York: Routledge.
- Pierre Bourdieu. 1992. Les règles de l´art, Génèse et structure du champ littéraire. Paris: Seuil.


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 as well as to methods for management of research resources; 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 assessment:
1. Two classroom assignments - oral presentations;
2. A individual essay to be discussed oraly with the group (15 pages).

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