Literature and Visual Arts

Name: Literature and Visual Arts
Code: LLT10885L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To develop the study, the reflection and the debate between teacher and
students about the relations between Literature and Visual Arts, trying to find
certain aesthetic and thematic correspondences between certain literary
authors and artists.

Contents

- Poetry, art and beauty: literary and artistic modernism
- Grotesque in Art and Literature
- Magic Realism and Surrealism
- Photography: Paulo Nozolino and Rui Nunes
- The Graphic Novel of Art Spiegelmann and Neil Gaiman

Teaching Methods

Pluridisciplinary practices; viewing of documentaries, films and other cultural
expressions that could complement the reading of literary and critical works.
Students active participation and presence in classes; research abilities;
reading and viewing practices; involvement in cultural activities; the quality of
written essays and oral presentations in classes.