Introduction to Literary Studies II

Code:

FLUP0083

Acronym:

IELIT2

Instance: 2006/2007 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EFA	2	Official Study Plan - LEFA	1	2,5	5	-
		Official Study Plan - LEFA	1	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	1	2,5	5	-
EFI	5	Official Study Plan - LEFI	1	2,5	5	-
EPA	3	Official Study Plan - LEPA	1	2,5	5	-
		Official Study Plan - LEPA	1	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial a partir de 2002	1	2,5	5	-
EPE	0	Official Study Plan - LEPE	1	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	1	2,5	5	-
EPF	41	Official Study Plan - LEPF	1	2,5	5	-
EPI	42	Official Study Plan - LEPI	1	2,5	5	-
		Official Study Plan - LEPI	1	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 4º ao 5º ano	1	2,5	5	-
EPO	0	Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	1	2,5	5	-
		Official Study Plan - LEPO	1	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	1	2,5	5	-
FIL	3	Official Study Plan - LFIL	3	2,5	5	-
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Objectives

PROGRAMME I (Professor Luís Adriano Carlos; Professor Joana Matos Frias)

To provide students with the conceptual, theoretical, methodological and analytical tools necessary for the study and understanding of the literary object in its multiple dimensions.

PROGRAMME II (Professor Maria Luísa Malato Borralho)

This subject aims at bringing students face to face with the diversity of literary typology, whether of genres or period styles, taking into consideration the basic complementariness between the fields of Literary Culture, History and Theory.

Program

PROGRAMME I

1. Literary criticism
1.1. Methods and trends in literary criticism
1.2. Reading, critique and interpretation.

2.Literary history
2.1.Time, literature and literary evolution
2.1.1.Historicity of poetic discourse
2.1.2.Phenomenology of poetic discourse
2.2.Time models and temporal analysis
2.3. Literary epochs and periods
2.3.1.Dialectics of the literary periods
2.3.2.Tradition, rupture and the tradition of rupture
2.3.3.Geneologies, groups and generations
2.5.1.Schools, currents and movements

3.Historicity of literary genres


PROGRAMME II

0. Subject presentation: assessment modalities, bibliography, reading cards and assignment proposals.

1. Literature and Literary Studies. Text critic, Literary Rhetoric, Literary style, Psicho-critic, History of Literature, Theory of Literature.

2. Literary typologies: genre and period style
I. The Genre
From modes to literary genres and sub-genres. Some founding texts: The Republic (Plato), Poetics (Aristotle), Epistle to the Pisons (Horace). Brief critical history.
I.1. The lyric mode. Structure, genres and sub-genres
I.2. The narrative mode. Structure, genres and sub-genres
I.3. The dramatic mode. Structure, genres and sub-genres.

2. “Stylus aticus” and “stylus asianus”, classical and baroque works, types of literature and literary periods. Literary schools and generations. Some epistemological issues.

3. Between the being and the transformations.
3.1. Which Antiquity?
3.2. The Middle Ages: an exemplary terminological issue
3.3. Romanticism and Romanticisms
3.4. Mannerism and the Baroque
3.5. Neo-Classicism, Arcadianism, Rococo, Pre-Romanticism
3.6. Romanticsm: enlightened or baroque?
3.7. Realism and Naturalism
3.8. “Fin de siécle” and Modernist(s) Aesthetics
3.9. Neo-Realism and Sur-realisms
3.10. Already or still a Post-Modernism?

Main Bibliography

PROGRAMME I

AA. VV, Analyse de la Périodisation Littéraire, Paris, Éditions Universitaires, 1972.
–––––– História Literária, Lisboa, Apáginastantas, 1982.
–––––– L’Histoire Littéraire, Genebra, Droz, 2001.
–––––– Les Chemins Actuels de la Critique, Paris, Union Générale d’Éditions, 1968.
BARTHES, Roland, Crítica e Verdade, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1978.
BLANCHÉ, Robert, Des Catégories Esthétiques, Paris, J. Vrin, 1979.
BRAUDEL, Fernand, História e Ciências Sociais, Lisboa, Presença, 1972.
CARLOS, Luís Adriano, Fenomenologia do Discurso Poético, Porto, Campo das Letras, 1999.
COELHO, Eduardo Prado, Os Universos da Crítica, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1982.
COELHO, Jacinto do Prado, Problemática da História Literária, Lisboa, Ática, 1961.
DELFAU, Gérard e Anne Roche, Histoire Littérature: Histoire et Interprétation du Fait Littéraire, Paris, Seuil, 1977.
ELIOT, T. S., «Tradition and the Individual Talent», in Selected Essays, Londres, Faber & Faber, 1969.
FAYOLLE, Roger, La Critique, Paris, Armand Colin, 1978.
FRYE, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism, Londres, Penguin, 1990.
GARDINER, Patrick, Teorias da História, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1995.
GENETTE, Gérard, «Poétique et Histoire», in Figures III, Paris, Seuil, 1972.
GUILLÉN, Claudio, Teorías de la Historia Literaria, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1989.
HALL, Edward T., A Dança da Vida: A Outra Dimensão do Tempo, Lisboa, Relógio d’Água, 1996.
IMBERT, Enrique Anderson, Métodos de Crítica Literária, Coimbra, Almedina, 1971.
KUBLER, George, A Forma do Tempo, Lisboa, Vega, 1991.
MEYERHOFF, Hans, O Tempo na Literatura, São Paulo, McGraw-Hill, 1976.
ORTEGA Y GASSET, El Tema de Nuestro Tiempo, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1981.
PAZ, Octavio, Los Hijos del Limo, Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1981.
RICOEUR, Paul, Temps et Récit, 3 vol., Paris, Seuil, 1983-1985.
SARAIVA, António José, «A Arte e o Tempo», in Ser ou não Ser Arte, Mem Martins, Europa América, 1974.
SENA, Jorge de, «Académico» e «Antigos e Modernos», in Amor e Outros Verbetes, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1992.
–––––– Dialécticas Teóricas da Literatura, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1977.
SILVA, Vitor Manuel de Aguiar e, Teoria da Literatura, Coimbra, Almedina, 1999.
TACCA, Óscar, La Historia Literaria, Madrid, Gredos, 1968.
TSVIETAIEVA, Marina, O Poeta e o Tempo, Lisboa, Hiena, 1993.
TODOROV, Tzvetan, Poética, Lisboa, Editorial Teorema, 1977.
TYNIANOV, J., «Da Evolução Literária», in AA. VV., Teoria da Literatura: Textos dos Formalistas Russos, ed. Tzvetan Todorov, vol. I, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1987.
WEINRICH, Harald, Le Temps, Paris, Seuil, 1973.
WELLEK, René, A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950, Londres, Jonathan Cape, 1966.
–––––– Concepts of Criticism, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1975.
WIMSATT, Jr., William K., Crítica Literária: Breve História, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1980

NOTA: No decurso das aulas, será fornecida bibliografia específica.
NOTE: Specific bibliography will be recommended in due course.


PROGRAMME II (cf. Complementary Bibliography)

Complementary Bibliography

PROGRAMME II

Specific bibliography on each topic will be recommended.

AA. VV. – BIBLOS. Enciclopédia Verbo das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa, 5 vols. (quatro editados), Lx, Verbo, 1995-...
AA. VV. – Lettres Européennes. Histoire de la Littérature Européenne, dir. A. Benoît e G. Fontaine, Paris, Hachette, 1992
AA.VV. – História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa, 9 vols., Lx., Verbo, 1993-...
AGUIAR E SILVA, Vítor M. – Teoria da Literatura, Coimbra, Almedina, 1999
ALBORG, Juan Luis – Historia de la Literatura Española, Madrid, Gredos, 1991
ARISTÓTELES, HORÁCIO, LONGINO – A Poética clássica, S. Paulo, Cultrix, 1985 [ou outras ed. da “Poética”, “Carta aos Pisões” e “Do Sublime”]
AUERBACH, Erich – Mimésis, Paris, Gallimard, 1977
BACKÉS, Jean-Louis – A Literatura Europeia, trad. L. Feio, Lx., Piaget, 1999
BARTHES, Roland – “Histoire ou Littérature », Sur Racine, Paris, Seuil, 1976
CURTIUS, E. R. – La Littérature Européenne et le Moyen-Age latin, trad. J. Bréjoux, 2 vols., Paris, PUF, 1986
D'ORS, Eugenio — O Barroco, trad. Luís Alves da Costa, Lisboa, Vega, 1990
GENETTE, Gérard – “Poétique et Histoire”, in Figures III, Paris, Seuil, 1972
LOPES, Silvina Rodrigues – A Legitimação em Literatura, Lx., Cosmos, 1994
REIS, Carlos – O Conhecimento da Literatura, Coimbra, Almedina, 1995
SENA, Jorge de – A Literatura Inglesa, Lisboa, Cotovia, 1989
VARGA, A. K. – Teoria da Literatura, Lx., Presença, trad. Teresa Coelho, 1981
WELLEK, René – Historia Literária, sel. S. Beser, Barcelona, Ed. Laia, 1983
WELLEK, René / WARREN, Austin – Teoria da Literatura, Mem Martins, Publ. Europa-América, 1976
WIMSATT JR., W. K. – Crítica Literária. Breve História, Lx., F. C. G., 1980

Teaching methods and learning activities

Progframme I and II, Theoretical and practical classes.
Programme II, students may also choose continuous evaluation classes, for which they must do written and oral assignments.

Software

No specific software required.

Evaluation Type

Eligibility for exams

Programme I:
Positive grade in the final exam
Class attendance not compulsory..

Programme II:
a) final evaluation: positive grade in the exam
b) continuous evauiation: positive average of the two evaluatioin components (final exam and courseworks), each must be higher than 7

Calculation formula of final grade

Programme I – final exam: 100%

Programa II
a) final evaluation: 100% final exam
b) continuous evaluation: 50% final exam + 50% for the assignments during the semester

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the FLUP’s regulations in force

Observations

Language of Instruction: Portuguese