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Introduction to Literary Studies
Courses Degree in Humanities
Cod: 51142
Department: DH
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Literary Studies
Total working hours: 156
Total contact time: 15

This course unit seeks to address the main aspect of the literary phenomenon: literature as an institution, in its socio-cultural, historical and esthetic dimensions; the chief characteristics of the literary work; the study of literary genres and literary evolution.
Also integral to this unit will be a set of reflections on fundamental themes and concepts, which will allow students to acquire competences in the activities of the analysis and interpretation of the literary work, and thus to frame issues essential to the field of literary studies.
In sum, students will acquire the theoretical skills indispensable to a basic understanding of literature.

  1. O Conceito de Literatura
  2. Cânone e Transgressão
  3. Os Géneros Literários
  4. A Evolução e a Periodização Literárias

 

1. The concept of Literature and the Literary Semiotic System
Literature and literariness
Literary memory
The literary canon and transgression
2. The Literary Genres
Literary modes, genres and subgenres
3. Literary Evolution and the Literary Periods
Vanguard and Tradition

A) Obras  de  leitura obrigatória:
AGUIAR E SILVA, Vítor Manuel, Teoria e Metodologia Literárias, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 1990. (Capítulos 2,3 e 5).
REIS,  Carlos, O Conhecimento da Literatura.  Introdução aos Estudos Literários, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 1994 (Capítulos VII e VIII).
B) Obras de consulta:
AGUIAR E SILVA, Vítor Manuel de, Teoria da Literatura, Coimbra, Almedina, 1982.
MATOS, Maria Vitalina Leal de, Introdução aos Estudos Literários,Lisboa, editorial Verbo, 2001.
PAZ, Olegário e MONIZ, António, Dicionário Breve de Termos Literários, Lisboa, Editorial  Presença, 2004.

E-learning.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 or 3 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a presence-based final exam (p-folio) in the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final presence-based exam (100%).