Teoria da Literatura (not translated)
Code
722160004
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)To reflect on the conditions that make possible to determine a set of unique traces of the English, Irish, North-American and Portuguese novels, from their origin until today;
b)To determine how the experimental novel and/or the anti-novel can be built;
c)To understand the differences and the similarities between pre-modernist, modernist and post-modernist novels;
d)To discuss the validity of the concept of novelism as a way to find an interdisciplinary term in the theory of the novel comparable to the concept of poetics;
e)To learn how to do relevant research in the field of Literary Theory;
f)To organize bibliographic research as a preparation for critical reading of a literary work;
g)To produce a short research paper on one of the works studied in class.
Prerequisites
Absent .
Subject matter
What is novelism? The novel as knowledge narration. Novelism as a form of antifoundationalism. The question of the representation of the real.
The magical realism and the frontier between the real and fiction.
The hypertextual rewriting of history.
The play of the story without a story and the reinvention of storytelling.
The conflict of the interpretation of the nature of the novel: novel or romance?
The question of self-reflexivity.
The autoglossia and intertextuality as forms of novelism.
The illusion of sequentiality and discursive cohesion of the fictional text.
Bibliography
- Bressler, Charles E. (2002). Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 3ª ed., New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
- Culler, Jonathan (2011). Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP.
- Eagleton, Terry (2005). The English Novel. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Head, Dominic (2002). The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- McKeon, Michael (ed.) (2000). Theory of the Novel: An Historical Approach, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Waugh, Patricia (2006). Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: OUP.
Teaching method
Presentation of the various topics by the lecturer; reading and discussion of a selection of texts covering the topics outlined in the syllabus;
Tutorial supervision of the research work related to the final paper chosen by the student.
Evaluation method
Presentation of a research paper.