Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Temas de Literatura em Português (not translated) - 2nd semester

Code

722091126

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Estudos Portugueses

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Teresa Araújo

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1) To improve literary reading skills.
2) To assess and apply various theoretical and methodological approaches to the object of study.
3) To know specific features of the Portuguese language literatures (their commonalities and their differences) considering the existing connections between literatures worldwide.
4) To review the contribution of Portuguese language literatures to World Literature.
5) To examine the particularities of Portuguese language in the context of literary creation.
6) To understand the issues underlying the concept of Portuguese language literatures.
7) To acquire appropriate training to research development and knowledge production in the field of Portuguese language literatures.

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

The syllabus focuses on literary reinvention as one of the major conceptual issues involved in the creation of literature itself. It examines recreation practices of the classical fables developed in Portuguese until the end of the nineteenth century in the context of other European literatures. It considers the Portuguese and Brazilian fable collections, as well as the (re)invention by canonical authors such as Sá de Miranda, Francisco Manuel de Melo, Bocage and Almeida Garrett, among others. It relates these creative practices with the coeval poetics and reflects on the axiological transformations of fabulistic themes. It critically analyses the rhetoric and/or poetic frame of this thematic renovation and the corresponding self-reflexivity. Finally, it reflects on the purpose of this constant literary reinvention, presenting new research possibilities in this field of study.

Bibliography

ALMEIDA, Vieira e CASCUDO, Luís da Câmara (eds) (1961): Grande fabulário de Portugal, do Ultramar Português e do Brasil, 2 vols, Lisboa, Fólio.
BLACKHAM, H. J. (1985): The Fable as Literature, London and Dover, New Hampshire, The Athlone Press.
BOIVIN, Jeanne-Marie et al (orgs.) (2011): Les fables avant La Fontaine, Genève, Droz.
A Fábula na literatura portuguesa: catálogo e história crítica, www.memoriamedia.net/fabula.
DANDREY, Patrick (2012): La fabrique des Fables, Paris, Klincksieck.
PEREIRA, Luciano (2007): A fábula em Portugal. Contributos para a história e caracterização da fábula literária, Porto, Profedições.
PERRY, Ben Edwin (1965): Babrius and Phaedrus Fables, Cambridge, Massachusetts-London, Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library.
RODRÍGUEZ ADRADOS, Francisco (2005). De Esopo al Lazarillo, Huelva, Univ. de Huelva.
THOMAS, Noel (1975): Theories of the Fable in the Eighteenth Century. Nova Iorque-Londres. Columbia University Press.

Teaching method

The syllabus will be developed, on one hand, through lectures on the theoretical criticism regarding the genre, the fable creative use and the self-reflexivity that followed this practice. The practical component includes student participation encouraged by the provision of conceptual and literary texts. This participation will either be spontaneous or planned through the scheduling of oral presentations and discussions of the research carried out by the students under tutorial supervision.

Evaluation method

The assessment contemplates this participation (20%), as well as the written presentation of a final research essay with 10 to 15 pages (50%) and its oral presentation followed by a discussion (30%).

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