Introduction to Literary Studies - 2nd semester
Code
711091111
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Clara Maria Abreu Rowland
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) To be acquainted with the main theoretical and methodological questions in the field of Literary Studies.
2) To develop written and oral skills at both comprehension and production levels, with a special focus on reading, critical analysis, and autonomous research.
3) To reinforce reading competences, theoretical reflection and argumentation skills applied to different types of text and different media, thus developing the students ability to compare, to build up relations and to identify theoretical problems through the critical analysis of a selection of works.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
The syllabus is designed to provide students with essential critical tools for the study of Literature by focusing on the discussion of different ideas of Literature represented in texts and artistic objects. In the first section, we will discuss some basic notions on Literature through the analysis of a varied set of texts centred upon the figure of the letter, allowing us to identify and consider specific problems in the study of poetry and fiction. In the second section, some of these issues will be developed in an extended reading of some important examples: texts by Kafka, Stevenson, James and Stefan Zweig.
Bibliography
POE, Edgar Allan, The Purloined Letter (trad. port. A Carta Roubada, in Histórias Extraordinárias, Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1998)
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur, The Five Orange Pips (trad. port. Os cinco caroços de laranja, in As Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1986)
MAUPASSANT, Guy de, Lettre dun Fou, Contes et Nouvelles 1884-1890, Paris: Robert Laffont, 1988, pp. 515-520.
CORTÁZAR, Júlio, Carta a una señorita en París (trad. port. Carta a uma rapariga em Paris, in Bestiário, Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 1986).
KAFKA, Franz, A Sentença, in Os Contos. 1º Vol., Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2004.
KAFKA, Franz, Carta ao Pai, Lisboa, Relógio dÁgua, 2004.
STEVENSON, Robert L., Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde (trad. port. O Estranho Caso do Dr. Jekyll e do Sr. Hyde e outros contos, trad. Jorge Pereirinha Pires, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2007.
JAMES, Henry, The Turn of the Screw (trad. port. A Volta no Parafuso, Lisboa, Relógio dÁgua, 2003.
Teaching method
Lectures with integrated discussion
Evaluation method
Evaluation will be the result of three different elements: two classroom written assignments and a paper on one of the topics in the syllabus.