2023

Comparative Literature I

Name: Comparative Literature I
Code: LLT11241M
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese, French
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, French
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

- Develop a comparative literary competence;
- Make aware of the aesthetic function of literature and culture;
- Stimulate a critical sense and carry out research;
- Develop critical and comparative reading competences for the critic reading of some novels
and emphasizing their predominant processes;
- Give students the fundamental theoretical and stylistic knowledge.

Contents

Authors Corpus: Miguel Cervantes; Ítalo Calvino; José Saramago; Mia Couto; Luís Sepúlveda, Machado de Assis; Philippe Sollers.

Representation of the reader and reading in the Novel

1. Ironic re(writing) and (re)reading;
2. The reader and the orality: the recover, (re)construction/(re)writing of orality.
3. Reading aloud and the different use of punctuation conventions,
4. Orality and Alterity.
5. The figure of the narrator-teller of stories and the reader-listener.

Teaching Methods

- Seminar sessions with of theoretical and practical nature;
- Written commentaries in class;
- Essays;
- Analysis of literary texts;
- Individual oral presentations.
Assessment:
According to the Regulamento Escolar Interno da Universidade de Évora.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment continuous or exam.
I - Continuous Assessment:
1 frequency: Written test: 50%. Oral presentation: 40%.
In the class, written works and oral participation: 10%.
II - Exam:
Final exam: Written test: 100%
Recurso Exam: Written test: 100%

Teaching Staff

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