Experimental Textual Practices Lab

Code:

ECLPTE01

Acronym:

LPTE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Arts

Instance: 2023/2024 - SP (of 27-09-2023 to 06-12-2023)

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Experimental Textual Practices Lab

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EC_LPTE	9	.	1	-		20	54

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The primary objectives of this course are as follows:

a) to learn and to put into practice the writing strategies covered in the syllabus, as well as to devise new ones;
b) to obtain a deeper understanding of textual practices and the materiality of text;
c) to start a dialogue about experimental poetics;
d) to discuss the concepts of “experimental literature”, “margin”, “formal constraint”, “combinatory”, “collaboration”, “citation”, “allusion”, “rewriting”, “pastiche”, “intertextuality”, “assemblage”, “appropriation”, “plagiarism”, “transcription”, “readymade”, “hypertext”, “conceptual writing”, “uncreative writing”, “unoriginal genius”, etc.
e) to launch a debate about forms of dissemination of marginal texts.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the training, the trainees must have gained new technical knowledge that will allow them, in the future, to encourage and disseminate the applied and problematized practices in the course. Such practices should not be limited to training. It is important that they become public through exhibitions and publications, and through a constructive dialogue with the university.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Hold a secondary education course (or legally equivalent qualification).

Program

• William S. Burroughs: cut-up, fold-in (poetry and microfiction)
• OULIPO: textual constraints in poetry and narrative strategies in the production of microfiction
• Charles Bernstein, Bernadette Mayer, etc. (hodgepodge of formal constraints in literary production)
• Conceptual Poetry (appropriation, transcription and conceptualization)
• Artist book / Object book.

Mandatory literature

BARTHELME, Donald; Sixty Stories, 2ª ed. Penguin. (1981). 1ª ed.: Putnam. Nova Iorque. EUA., 2003
BARTHELME, Donald. ; Forty Stories, 2ª ed. Penguin. (1987). 1ª ed.: Putnam. Nova Iorque. EUA., 2005
BEAULIEU, Derek. Dobson, Kit (org.); Please, No More Poetry, Wilfried Laurier University Press. Waterloo, Canadá, 2013
BERNSTEIN, Charles; All the whiskey in heaven: selected poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Nova Iorque, EUA., 2010
BURROUGHS, William S., Gysin, Brion; The Third Mind, The Viking Press. Nova Iorque, EUA., 1978
CARVALHO, Isabel; os cantores dos planaltos fundem linguagens, Broken Dimanche Press. Berlim, Alemanha., 2013
CASTRO, E. M. de Melo e. ; Círculos Afins (1963 - 1975), Assírio & Alvim. Lisboa., 1977
FARR, Roger. ; Means, LINEbooks. Burnaby, Canadá., 2012
FOWLER, S. J., JENKS, Tom; 1000 Proverbs, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. Newton-le-Willows, Reino Unido. , 2015
FOWLER, S.J. ; Enemies: The Selected Collaborations of S. J. Fowler, Penned in the Margins. Londres, Reino Unido., 2013
GOLDSMITH, Kenneth; Soliloquy, Granary Books- Nova Iorque, EUA., 2001
GOLDSMITH, Kenneth; Traffic, Make Now. Los Angeles, EUA., 2007
GOLDSMITH, Kenneth; Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Columbia University Press. Nova Iorque, EUA., 2011
HATHERLY, Ana. ; 463 tisanas, Quimera Editores. Lisboa., 2006
JENKS, Tom. ; On Liberty, Repressed, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press. Newton-le-Willows, Reino Unido., 2014
JENKS, Tom; The Tome of Commencement, Stranger Press. Manchester, Reino Unido., 2014
MCCAFFERY, Steve; Crime Scenes, Veer Books. Londres, Reino Unido. , 2006
MOTTE JR., Warren F. (org., trad.); OULIPO A Primer of Potential Literature., 2ª ed. Dalkey Archive Press. Mclean, Illinois EUA. , 1998
PIMENTA, Alberto; Tijoleira, &etc. Lisboa., 2002
PIMENTA, Alberto; Discurso sobre o filho-de-deus ao qual se segue o Discurso sobre o filho-da-puta, Editorial Teorema. Lisboa., 2000
PIMENTA, Alberto; Tríptico, &etc. Lisboa., 1983
QUENEAU, Raymond; Exercises de style, Éditions Gallimard. Paris, França., 1947
QUENEAU, Raymond; Cent mille milliards de poèmes, Éditions Gallimard. Paris, França., 1947
SAROYAN, Aram; Complete Minimal Poems, 2ª ed. Ugly Duckling Presse. Nova Iorque, EUA. 1ª ed.: (2007). Ugly Duckling Presse. Nova Iorque, EUA., 2013

Teaching methods and learning activities

At the end of the semester, trainees will have to submit a final project. They may choose to prepare:

a) an artist's book;
b) an e-chapbook of conceptual poetry;
c) a collaborative e-chapbook.

The exhibition of artist books and the publication of e-chapbooks on a digital platform will be the responsibility of the trainer (who will be the curator and editor of the material) and FLUP (at the level of infrastructure). In addition, a digital magazine will also be published with the works prepared by the trainees in class.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Estudo autónomo	34,00
Total:	54,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

Not applicable.