2024

Comparative Literature II

Name: Comparative Literature II
Code: LLT11244M
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area: Literature

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

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To develop analytical competences in the sphere of the comparative literature and stimulate a critical approach and promote the investigative research;
To promote the practical use of the acquired knowledge.

Contents

Authors Corpus: Edgar Poe, Raymond Chandler, Paul Auster, Manuel Vasquez Montalban, Michel Butor, Georges Simenon e Jean-Christophe Grangé.

Representation of the reader in detective fiction

1. Origins and the notion of genre (detective and mystery novels);
2. Myth and the detective novel;
3. The fantastic and the detective novel;
4. The detective novel and “nouveau roman”;
5. The narrator and the reader in the detective novel.

Teaching Methods

- Seminar sessions (theoretical and practical);
- Written commentaries in class;
- Essays;
- Analysis of literary texts;
- Individual oral presentations.
Assessment:
Students may choose between two modes of assessment: (1) continuous or (2) exam.
I - Continuous Assessment:
Written piece of work: 50%. Oral presentation: 40%.
In the class, written works and oral participation: 10%.
II - Exam:
Final exam: Written test: 100%

Teaching Staff

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