European Literatures I
Starting with a selection of foundational texts within the European literary tradition with a focus on the Enlightenment and early European Romanticism, this course unit seeks to question the very notion of European literature(s), exploring the main movements and literary sensibilities within this period in light of several recurring formative themes within the European imagination: linguistic awareness, love, the world as theatre, and voyage, whether errant or utopian.
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
2.5. Romanticisms
3. Paradigmatic European Works: Themes and Reception
3.1. Micromégas
3.2. Ossian – a European phenomenon
Bär, Gerald (2016). “António Feliciano de Castilho, a literatura alemã e Ossian”. Convergência Lusíada, No. 35 – jan/jun de 2016, pp. 145-159.
- (2009). “Garrett e Ossian”. Anglo-Saxonica, Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa. Série II – nº 26 – 2008-2009. Lisboa: Edições Colibri, pp. 214-215.
Backès, Jean-Louis (1999). A literatura europeia. Tradução de L. C. Feio. Lisboa: Instituto Piaget.
Lourenço, Eduardo (1994). Nós e a Europa ou as duas razões. Lisboa: I.N.C.M. (excertos).
- (1999). Do mundo da imaginação à imaginação do mundo. Lisboa: Fim de Século Edições (excertos).
- (2001). A Europa desencantada. Para uma mitologia europeia. Lisboa: Gradiva (excertos).
Gaskill, Howard, (ed.) (2004). The Reception of Ossian in Europe. London (The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British Authors in Europe). New York, NY: Thoemmes Continuum.
Monfardini, Adriana (2005). “O mito e a literatura”. Terra roxa e outras terras. Revista de Estudos Literários. Vol. 5 (2005), pp. 50-61.
Moura, Vasco Graça (2013). A Identidade Cultural Europeia (Ensaios da Fundação, #40). Lisboa: Relógio D'Água, pp. 44-49.
Russ, Jacqueline (1997). A aventura do pensamento europeu. Uma história das ideias ocidentais. Lisboa: Terramar, col. «Europa» (excertos).
The Poetical Works of Ossian. [online]: 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 (excertos).
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet (2017) Micromégas. Ed. Mathieu Roduit. [online]: https://mrfrancais.weebly.com/uploads/1/9/9/8/19984595/microm%C3%A9gas.pdf Edição em Português: http://www.ebooksbrasil.org/eLibris/micromegasN.html).
Further bibliographical references and material, such as images and films available in the internet, will be provided throughout the semester on the e-learning platform.
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%).