Introduction to Literary Studies I

Code:

FLUP0082

Acronym:

IELIT1

Instance: 2006/2007 - 1S

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	1	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	6	Official Study Plan - LEFI	1	2,5	5	-
EPA	5	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	2	Official Study Plan - LEPE	1	2,5	5	-
		Plano oficial - 1º ao 3º ano	1	2,5	5	-
EPF	38	Official Study Plan - LEPF	1	2,5	5	-
EPI	41	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	1	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	4	Official Study Plan - LFIL	3	2,5	5	-
			4

Objectives

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

To acquaint 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 preparing students to reflect on the concept of “Literature”. The programme will seek to acquaint students with the appropriate terminology used in literary studies but it also encourages critical maturity by confronting them with the different definitions of Literature and the several possible methodologies.

Program

PROGRAMME I

1. Poetics: methods and object
1.1. Normative Poetics and Descriptive Poetics
1.2. Classical Poetics and Contemporary Poetics

2. Poetics and Linguistics
2.1. Utterance, discourse and literariness.

3. Poetics, rhetoric and semiotics
3.1. Code, text, intertext and hypertext
3.2. Figuration and ekphrasis

4. Discourse typology and literary discourse
4.1. Genres, types and modes
4.2. Lyric, narrative and dramatic discourse.

PROGRAMME II

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

2. What is Literature after all?
2.1. Literature as language.
a) The Signifier. Literature and Music; Literature and Painting.
b) The Signified. Language and communication: between Plato and Aristotle. The myths of communication: Prometheus and Theuth/Cadmo; Paradise and The Babel Tower.
c) The unit between the signifier and the signified. The debate between Cratilus and Hermogenes. The desire for a perfect language: Magic, the Cabbala and Computer Science.
d) Language functions and the function(s) of Literature. Jackobson’s Communication Model and the “poetic function”. The notion of “strangeness”

2.2. Literature as mimesis or as fiction.
a) The sign as representation of reality. Aristotle’s “Poetics”. The wise men that carried rocks (J. Swift). Saussure: Referent, Sign and Symbol. From the concrete to the abstract: hieroglyphs, ideograms, emblems. Etymology and Metaphor.
b) Author vs. Narrator; Reader vs. Narratee.
c) Reading levels: denotative levels and connotative levels. Some typologies: Saint Augustine, Dante, Lotman and Hielmslev.

2.3. Literature as an institution
a) The vagueness of the lexeme “Literature”
b) The vagueness of the lexeme “text”
c) The vagueness of the literary “corpus”
d) The vagueness of the aesthetic “strangeness”

3. Reading levels and methodologies of literary criticism.
Textual Criticism; Bibliography; Biographism; Literary Rhetoric; Comparative Literature; Psychocriticism; History of Literature: Theory of Literature.

Main Bibliography

PROGRAMME I

AA. VV., Teoria da Literatura: Textos dos Formalistas Russos, ed. Tzvetan Todorov, 2 vol., Lisboa, Edições 70, 1987 e 1989.
ARISTÓTELES, Poética, Lisboa, INCM, 1988.
——— Retórica, Lisboa, INCM, 1988.
BARTHES, Roland, Elementos de Semiologia, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1997.
–––––– Lição, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1979.
BENVENISTE, Émile, Problèmes de Linguistique Générale, 2 vol., Paris, Gallimard, 1981.
CARLOS, Luís Adriano, Fenomenologia do Discurso Poético, Porto, Campo das Letras, 1999.
–––––– O Arco-Íris da Poesia, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2002.
CARVALHO, Amorim de, Tratado de Versificação Portuguesa, Coimbra, Almedina, 1991.
DELAS, Daniel e Jacques Filliolet, Linguistique et Poétique, Paris, Larousse, 1973.
DOLEZEL, Lubomír, A Poética Ocidental, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1990.
ECO, Umberto, Leitura do Texto Literário, Lisboa, Presença, 1983.
FOUCAULT, Michel, As Palavras e as Coisas, Lisboa, Portugália, s/d.
GENETTE, Gérard, Discurso da Narrativa, Lisboa, Vega, 1995.
–––––– Introduction à l’Architexte, Paris, Seuil, 1979.
–––––– Palimpsestes: La Littérature au Second Degré, Paris, Seuil, 1982.
GREIMAS, A. J. , org., Ensaios de Semiótica Poética, São Paulo, Cultrix, 1976.
GRUPO M, Rhétorique Générale, Paris, Seuil, 1982.
HAMBURGER, Käte, Logique des Genres Littéraires, Paris, Seuil, 1986.
JAKOBSON, Roman, Essais de Linguistique Générale, vol. I, Paris, Minuit, 1981.
–––––– «O que Fazem os Poetas com as Palavras», in AA. VV., Teoria da Literatura e da Crítica, Lisboa, Cadernos da «Colóquio/Letras», Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1982.
–––––– Questions de Poétique, Paris, Seuil, 1973.
JOLLES, André, Formes Simples, Paris, Seuil, 1972.
KRIEGER, Murray, Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
KRISTEVA, Julia, Semeiotikè: Recherches pour une Sémanalyse, Paris, Seuil, 1969.
LAUSBERG, Heinrich, Elementos de Retórica Literária, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1972.
LOTMAN, Juri, A Estrutura do Texto Artístico, Lisboa, Estampa, 1978.
PROPP, Vladimir, Morfologia do Conto, Lisboa, Vega, 1978.
RYNGAERT, Jean Pierre, Introdução à Análise do Teatro, Porto, ASA, 1992.
SILVA, Vitor Manuel de Aguiar e, Teoria da Literatura, Coimbra, Almedina, 1999.
SMITH, Mack, Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
STAIGER, Emil, Conceptos Fundamentales de Poética, Madrid, Ediciones Rialp, 1966.
TODOROV, Tzvetan, Os Géneros do Discurso, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1981.
–––––– Poética, Lisboa, Editorial Teorema, 1977.
WELLEK, René, A History of Modern Criticism 1750-1950: The Age of Transition, Londres, Jonathan Cape, 1966.
–––––– Concepts of Criticism, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1975.
WELLEK, René, e WARREN, Austin, Teoria da Literatura, Mem Martins, Publicações Europa América, 1976.
WIMSATT, Jr., William K., Crítica Literária: Breve História, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1980.

Specific readings on each topic will be recommended in class.

PROGRAMME II (cf. Complementary Bibliography)

Complementary Bibliography

PROGRAMA II

AA. VV. – Literatura-Texto. Enciclopédia Einaudi, vol. XVII, Lx., IN-CM., 1989
AA. VV. – Teoria Literária, org. M. Angenot et alii, Paris, PUF, 1995
AGUIAR E SILVA, Vítor M. – Teoria da Literatura, Coimbra, Almedina, 1984
ARISTÓTELES – Poética, Lx., IN-CM, 1988
CARVALHO, Amorim de – Teoria Geral da Versificação, 2 vols., Lx., Império, 1987
CHEVALIER, Jean et alii – Dicionário dos Símbolos, Lx., Teorema, 1994
DUCROT, O./TODOROV, T. – Dicionário das ciências da linguagem, Lx., D. Quixote, 1978
ECO, Umberto – Seis passeios nos bosques da ficção, Lx., Difel, 1995
ECO, Umberto – Sobre Literatura, trad. J. C. Barreiros, Lx., Difel, 2003
GENETTE, Gérard – Discurso da narrativa, 3.ª ed., Lx., Vega, 1996
GENETTE, Gérard – Palimpsestes, Paris, Seuil, 1982
KAYSER, W. – Análise e interpretação da obra literária, 7.ª ed., Coimbra, A. Amado, 1985
LAUSBERG, Heinrich – Elementos de Retórica Literária, Lx., F. C. Gulbenkian, 1972
MATOS, Maria V. Leal de – Introdução aos Estudos Literários, Lx., Verbo, 2001
PROPP, Vladimir – Morfologia do Conto, Lx., Vega, 1978
REIS, Carlos/LOPES, A. C. - Dicionário de Narratologia, Coimbra, Almedina, 1987
STANISLAVSKI, C. – A construção da personagem, trad. Pontes de P. Lima, 11.ª ed., Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira, 2003
SEGRE, Cesare – Introdução à análise do texto literário, Lx., Estampa, 1999
TODOROV, Tzvetan – Poética, Lx., Teorema, 1993
WELLEK, R./ WARREN, A. – Teoria da Literatura, Mem Martins, Europa-América, 1976

Specific readings on each topic will be recommended in class.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Programmes 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 A – final exam: 100%

Programa B
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