Problematics of Portuguese Studies
Code
73209101
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Fernando Cabral Martins, Silvina Rodrigues Lopes
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Knowledge and discussion of some practices and formalizations of the approach of literary and non-literary texts.
b) acquisition of the capacity to carry out a work of rigorous research.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1) Reading of Limited Inc, Jacques Derrida, book of which will be analyzed and discussed in detail passages of John Searle´s texts and passages of Jacques Derrida´s authorship. 2. Analysis and comparison of arguments of the two authors around the concepts of citation, context and speech acts. 3. The issue of ethics research.
2) Discussion of the new philology, the cohesion between linguistic and bibliographic codes and the performative dimension of textual editing. Analysis, as part of a reorientation of literary studies from the author to the reader, of Allan Poe´s articles \"The Poetic Principle\" and \"The Philosophy of Composition\", along with Jerome McGann´s chapter 2 of his book \"The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel\".
Bibliography
Derrida, Jacques, Limited Inc, Galilée, Paris, 1990
Popper, Karl, O Mito do Contexto, Ed. 70, 2009
Quine, W. V. “Postulações e realidade”, Filosofia e Linguagem, trad. João Sàágua, Ed. Asa, Lisboa, 1995
Loxley, James, \"Performativity\", Londres, Routledge, 2007
McGann, Jerome, \"The Poet Edgar Allan Poe\", Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2014
Poe, Edgar Allan, \"Critical Theory: The Major Documents\", Urbana e Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2009
Teaching method
The classes will be theoretical and practical. Exposure, criticism and discussion of interpretations will be based on reading and analysis of literary texts. This procedure calls for the student participation, in order to provide them with the argumentative practice.
Evaluation method
The evaluation will consist of: 1. oral presentation of themes in the choice of students - 30%; 2. A test on the studied subjects - 70%.