Margarida Maria de Jesus Santos Alpalhão

1. Literature and Myth
2. Literary and artistic imaginary
3. Identity and Imaginary: the Hero and the Otherness
4. Imaginary: theories and practices

Thus, students are expected to be able to:
•understand theoretical writings and aesthetic discourses in a critical, articulated and reasoned manner;
•carry out a reflection or a research in a collaborative way;
•master and apply operational methodologies and concepts suitable for the study of literary imaginary;
•transfer acquired knowledge to artistic representations of different nature and time;
•search and formulate hypotheses for the development of an original work.

I.The Imaginary: concepts, approaches and methodologies

1. What is the imaginary?
2. Myth and Imaginary: working concepts
3. Approaches, hermeneutic models and methodologies: Jung, G. Bachelard; G. Durand, systemic approach
4. The Imaginary: A multidisciplinary approach

II - Monsters and Heroes: identity trajectories

1.The hero mythologem: models and transformations (literature, advertising, film, iconography, cartons, etc.)
2.Defying representation: the monster
3.The hero and the monster in literature and arts: compared readings

III - Virtual imaginaries

1. Iconoclasts and Inconophiles
2. The digital revolution
3. Contemporaries images: splendor and crisis of the symbolic imaginary

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_________, Mythocritique: théories et parcours, Paris, PUF, 1992.
CHAUVIN, D. et alii, Questions de mythocritique. Dictionnaire, Paris, Imago, 2005.
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____________. As estruturas antropológicas do Imaginário (trad. Helder Godinho), Lisboa, Ed. Presença, 1989.
____________, Introduction à la mythodologie. Mythes et sociétés, Paris, A. Michel, 1996.
____________, «L'anthropologie et les structures complexes», Sociétés, 98, 2007.
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RANK, O., Le Mythe de la naissance du héros, suivi de La légende de Lohengrin, Paris, Payot, 2000.
THOMAS, J., Introduction aux méthodologies de l’imaginaire, Paris, Ellipses, 1998.
_________, «De l’Enéide à l’Eneas. Pour une approche comparative et systémique de l’imaginaire littéraire», PRIS-MA, 49-50, 2009, 175-188.
_________, «Le 'chant profond' des mythes. État des lieux et perspectives méthodologiques», Cadernos do CEIL, 1, 2011, p. 5-27.
VIERVARD, L., «Dix imaginaires des sciences et des techniques», Lyon, Millénaire 3: Le Centre de Ressources Prospectives du Grand Lyon, 2006.
WUNENBURGER, J.-J., «L'auto-éthique: une utopie?», Les Cahiers de médiologie, 12, 2001, p. 87-93.
__________________, La Vie des images, Grenoble, PUG, 2002.
__________________, Philosophie des images, Paris, PUF, 2006.
__________________, «Promesses et désillusions de l'iconosphère électronique», Lyon, Millénaire 3: Le Centre de Ressources Prospectives du Grand Lyon, 2006.

E-learning

Evaluation is made on individual basis and it involves the coexistence of two modes: continuous assessment (60%) and final evaluation (40%). Further information is detailed in the Learning Agreement of the course unit.