Gerald Bar

1. European Literatures
2. Literary Trends
3. Literary Myths
4. Ideology and Literature

By the end of the course unit, the student will have demonstrated the following abilities:
- to develop a critical reflection on the idea of European literature (and related topics) in light of a particular literary or theoretical text;
- to situate within their respective historical, cultural, and poetic contexts, significant authors and works of European literature;
- to identify and analyze, in synchronic and diachronic terms( the latter understood as expressing continuities and transformations), themes, motifs, and myths cultivated within the European literatures.
 

 

1. The Identity/-ies of European Literature
1.1. Is there a European literature?
1.2. Literature, nation and myth
1.3. Periodological delimitation and developmental stages
2. From Medieval to (Pre)Romantic Literary Concepts 
2.1. From Latin to romance: the birth of European literatures
2.2. From the picaresque novel to Don Quixote: the knight errant and the redefinition of the subject
2.3. The world as theatre: from Shakespeare to Calderón de La Barca
2.4. Travel, utopia and modernity (Campanella, Thomas More, Voltaire and Swift)
2.5. Romanticisms
3. Paradigmatic European Works: Themes and Reception
3.1. Micromégas
3.2. Ossian – a European phenomenon
3.3. Faust (Parte I)

BACKÈS, Jean-Louis, A literatura europeia. Tradução de L. C. Feio, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 1999, 467 páginas.

Compulsory Reading
VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet, Micromégas: http://lettres.ac-rouen.fr/voltaire/micromegas/txt/integrnn.pdf (Edição em Português: http://www.ebooksbrasil.org/eLibris/micromegasN.html.
The Poetical Works of Ossian: http://www.exclassics.com/ossian/ossian.pdf (Em Português: Poesias de Ossian: Antologia das traduções em português, (org. Gerald Bär), Lisboa: Universidade Católica Editora, 2010.
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust (Der Tragödie Erster Teil): 
http://www.digbib.org/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe_1749/Faust_I_.pdf 
(Em Português: Johann W. Goethe, Fausto, Lisboa: Relógio D’Agua, 1999 (part I).

Complementary readings:
CALDICOTT, Edric; FUCHS, Anne (ed.), Cultural Memory: Essays in European Literature and History. Oxford, Berna, Berlim: Peter Lang, 2003.
GASKILL, Howard, (ed.), The Reception of Ossian in Europe, London, (The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British Authors in Europe), New York, NY: Thoemmes Continuum 2004.
LOURENÇO, Eduardo, Nós e a Europa ou as duas razões. Lisboa: I.N.C.M., 1994.
___________________, A Europa desencantada. Para uma mitologia europeia. Lisboa: Gradiva, 2001.
MAGNUS, Laurie, History of European Literature. Kennicat Press, 1970.
MEIZOZ, Jérôme (ed.), La Circulation internationale des littératures. Lausanne: Faculté des Lettres de Lausanne, 2006.
MORIN, Edgar, Culture et barbarie européennes. Paris: Bayard, 2005.
1998.
RUSS, Jacqueline, A aventura do pensamento europeu. Uma história das ideias ocidentais. Lisboa: Terramar, col. «Europa», 1997.
TIEGHEM, Paul van, Histoire Littéraire de l’Europe et de l’Amérique de la Renaissance a nos jours. Paris: Linrairie Armand Colin, 1941.
Webgraphy
www.istitutoeuropeo.it 
aprendereuropa.eurocid.pt/page.aspx?idCat=303&idMasterCat=303&idContent=424 
www.dgidc.min-edu.pt/inovbasic/cliteratura/index.htm 
www.rilune.org/bibliocr/litteurope/bibliographieeu.htm

E-learning.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).