2023

Classical Matrices of Literature

Name: Classical Matrices of Literature
Code: LLT14408M
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area: Literature

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

Presentation

This course aims to develop analytical skills in the context of the reception of the Classics.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1. To know and discuss theoretical seminal elements as defined in classical literature.
2. To critically analyse genres, characters and narrative structures in specific contexts of classical literature.
3. To discuss the assumptions of adaptations, transformations and subversions of classical models.
4. To develop analytical skills in the context of the reception of the Classics.

Contents

1. Poetics and Rhetoric: aesthetic-literary reflections in the literary framework of Classical Antiquity.
2. Creation of models (genres, characters, narrative structures): hybridization, transformation, recomposition.
3. Reception:
3.1. Theorizing the reception of classics.
3.2. Rewriting and rereading in later literature(s): case studies.

Teaching Methods

Articulated and critical exposition of the themes and texts. Research, analysis, discussion and synthesis. Continuous assessment and an essay (100%) or final assessment (written exam: 100%).