Guided Reading - 2nd semester

Code

711111112

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas

Credits

6

Teacher in charge

Alda Jesus Correia

Weekly hours

4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

a) To acquire a knowledge of the methods of analysis of the literary text. .
b) To apply these methods in the concrete analysis of contemporaries texts of fiction and poetry
c) To acquire the ability to produce a critical analysis and the research of the specific bibliography for this effect.

Prerequisites

None

Subject matter

1.Theoretical questions
1.1. Critical literary: so that it serves?
1.2. To read the text: point of view and knowledge of literature
1.3. The literary hermeneutics: to desconstruir the text, to construct the reading
1.4. Supplements and literary magazines: Portugal, Spain, France, England
1.5. Literature in the Internet
2. Readings of the fiction
2.1. Relation of the reader with the text
2.2. Emergency of meaning(s).
2.3. The question of the Canon.
3. The specifics of the poetical speech
3.1. The language and the poetry
3.2. The voice of the text - to say and to hear the poem
3.3. Thematic, form, subjectivity in the construction of the poem: the image and music in the poetical text
3.4. Monolog and dialogue: fiction and theater in the poetical text

Bibliography

Compagnon, A.(2010). Para que serve a literatura? Porto: Deriva.
Eco, U.(1995). Seis passeios nos bosques da ficção. Lisboa: Difel.
Júdice, N. (2010). Abc da crítica. Lisboa: Dom Quixote.
Namora, R. (2011). 40 anos de Teoria da Literatura em Portugal. Coimbra: Almedina.
Lourenço, E. (1994). O canto do signo. Lisboa: Presença.

Teaching method

Presentation of the appropriate methodologies for poetry and fiction analysis. Examples of analysis through excerpts or books in the totality, with reference to the analyses made by contemporary critics. Individual supervision of the works on texts selected in the program.Lectures (60%); class discussions and analysis of oral and written texts, presentation and discussion of student papers (40%).

Evaluation method

Final test (50%) and written essay with oral defence (50%).

Courses

• Spanish and German Studies
• English and German Studies
• Portuguese and German Studies
• Portuguese and English Studies
• Portuguese and French Studies
• French and Spanish Studies
• English and North-American Studies
• French and German Studies
• English and Spanish Studies
• Portuguese and Spanish Studies
• English and French Studies