Literatura e Mitologia (not translated) - 1st semester
Code
711091131
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Gustavo Rubim
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Students should get to know some important mythological inventions of modern european literary imagination, as well as be able to draw comparative connections between those inventions and classic european mythology. Specific competence in the analysis of the narrative structure of myths and an introductory knowledge of theoretical disputes around the interpretation of myths, along nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are the other main outcomes the course is conceived to achieve.
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Subject matter
1. Three modern literary myths
1.1. Faust
1.2. Frankenstein
1.3. Robinson Crusoe
2. Critical theories of mythological imagination
2.1. Myth and the symbolic knowledge
2.2. The narrative structure
2.3. Mass mythologies
Bibliography
Barthes, Roland, Mitologias, Lisboa, Edições 70, 2012.
Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with A Thousand Faces, New World Library, 2012.
Defoe, Daniel, As Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe, Lisboa, BIS, 2009.
Goethe, Johann W., Fausto, Lisboa, Relógio d´Água, 1999.
Jesi, Furio, O Mito, Lisboa, Presença, 2000.
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, Lisboa, BIS, 2009.
Teaching method
Course time is devoted to careful reading of literary texts and discussion of critical concepts resulting from previous reading by the students of chosen theoretical essays. Certain classes will include excerpts from films, showing how myths cross several artistic and fictional media.
Evaluation method
Evaluation tools include a written text in class and a final research paper, each one worthing 50% of the overall evaluation.