Compared Literature

Code:

LLC074

Acronym:

LITCOM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Comparative Literature

Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LLC	5	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Two Foreign Languages)	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. To recognise, through concrete examples, not only the international but also the transnational scope of the literary phenomenon.
2. To motivate students towards a relational and inter and transdisciplinary approach of literature;
3. To introduce concepts and methods applicable to the scientific field traditionnaly known as comparative literature.
4. To contribute to the articulation of knowledge acquired in other literary courses, or in other fields like History, Art History, Philosophy, International relations...)

Learning outcomes and competences

- Basic knowledge in historical and methodological terms on the academic field of Comparative Literature;

- Practice of comparative analysis using different corpora;

- Development of interpretation skills and critical thinking about different approaches of literature, culture and arts, in general.     

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. What is Comparative Literature? - Historical and methodological introduction. 

2. Intertextuality and translation.

3. Pandemics in Literature: forms, functions
and transpositions

Daniel Defoe, Diário do Ano da Peste [1722] 


Albert Camus, A Peste [1947]

José Saramago, O ensaio sobre a cegueira [1995] 

Mandatory literature

VEGA, Maria José ; CARBONELL, Neus – ; La Literatura Comparada: Principios y Métodos, , Gredos, 1998
Machado, Álvaro Manuel; Pageaux, Daniel-Henri; Da Literatura Comparada à Teoria da Literatura , Presença, 2001
Bassnett, Susan; Comparative Literature. A Critical Introduction , Blackwell, 1993
George Steiner; What is comparative literature?. ISBN: 0-19-952268-5
César Domínguez; Introducing comparative literature. ISBN: 978-0-415-70268-3
Daniel Defoe; A^journal of the plague year
Albert Camus; La peste. ISBN: 2-03-870312-4
José Saramago; Ensaio sobre a cegueira. ISBN: 972-21-1021-7

Complementary Bibliography

MEUNIER, Emmanuelle ; De l’écrit à l’écran, L'Harmattan, 2007
CARCAUD-Macaire, Monique ; L’adaptation cinématographique et littéraire, KLINCKSIECK, 2004
Cléder, Jean; Entre Littérature et Cinéma. les Affinités Électives, Armand Colin, 2012. ISBN: 978-2-200-28127-4
Machado, Álvaro Manuel; Literatura portuguesa, literatura comparada, teoria da literatura
AAVV; Floresta Encantada. Caminhos da Literatura Comparada , Dom Quixote, 2001

Comments from the literature

Other literature references will be indicated to the students throughout the semester. At the beginning of classes, books and their film adaptations will also be indicated for analysis

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, seminars and tutorials (discussing and analyzing texts and data).

 

The evaluation will consider:

. Active student participation will be regarded as fundamental for an adequate fulfilment of the course's goals: research and/or the producing of reports. 

Two  written tests. 

Software

Datashow

keywords

Humanities
Humanities > Literature
Humanities > Literature > Comparative literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Teste	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	80,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	28,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law

Calculation formula of final grade

Calculation weighted according to the above assessment items.

Nota bene:In order to pass the course unit, the student can not have a grade lower than 9 in the exam component and the average of the tests and work components should be positive.Calculation weighted according to the above assessment items.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Classification improvement

1. Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.
2. The assessment component to be considered for the purpose of improving the classification should be one of the written assessment component ( test or written work).