Seminar C in Literature
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.
Contents
- Techniques of Modern Fiction in As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary and The Sound and the Fury.
. The influences of the French symbolists, T.S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Mann.
. Interior monologues and subjective experience.
. Cubist nature of a polyphony of voices and the intricate changes of perspective.
. Characters and the abolition of chronology.
. Faulkner as a Southern Euripides - the presence of Evil and Death; echoes of Greek tragedy.
. An aesthetic of resistance - the concept of "endurance" in characterizing the individual destroyed by society and the dark forces within himself. 2nd Module
Intertextuality as crucial literary strategy in contemporary literature
1. Bakthin’s dialogism
2. Gerard Genette’s key concepts of intertextuality
3. Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence
3rd Module
3. Louis-Ferdinand Céline and António Lobo Antunes: glances cross around the memory.
- Critical and comparatist reading around the problem of the memory;
- Analysis of the memory in Voyage au bout de la nuit and Memória de Elefante:
- Memory and autobiography;
- Memory and War;
- Memory and despair;
- Memory and love;
- Memory and travel.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Methods (Methodology)
- Theoretical and practical sessions;
- Reading and interpretation of some works;
Assessment
According to the Regulamento Interno da Universidade de Évora and the Regulamento de Avaliação de Conhecimentos.
1 - Continuous Assessment:
Written work: 100%
2 - Exam:
Final exam: Written test: 100%
Recurso Exam: Written test: 100%
Recommended Reading
Bibliography:
1st Module
- Faulkner, William (1991) The Sound and the Fury. New York; Vintage.
______________ (2009) As I Lay Dying. New York: Norton.
______________ (1993) Sanctuary. New York: Vintage.
- Meriwether, James B. (1980) Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Blotner, Joseph (1977) Sellected Letters of William Faulkner. New York: Random House.
- Vale de Gato, Margarida. “The Influencing Simulacrum: Faulkner revised by António Lobo Antunes”, Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, ISSN: 0871-682X, nº 13, Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Univ. Nova de Lisboa, 2004: 153-164.2nd Module
- BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Questões de literatura e estética: a teoria do romance, São Paulo, HUCITEC, 1988.- BLOOM, Harold, A Angústia da Influência, Lisboa, Cotovia, 1991.
- JENNY, L. A estratégia da Forma. In: Poétique- Revista de teoria e análise literárias-Intertextualidades, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 1979.
- GENETTE, Gerard, Palimpsestes, Paris, Seuil, 1982.
3rd Module - Antunes, António Lobo: 2008, Memória de Elefante, Lisboa, Dom Quixote, edição ne varietur.- Cabral, Eunice et alii (Org.): 2003, A Escrita e o Mundo em Lobo Antunes, Actas do Colóquio Internacional da Universidade de Évora, Lisboa, Dom Quixote.
- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: 1952, Voyage au Bout de la Nuit, Paris.- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: 1966, Viagem ao fim da Noite, Lisboa, Ulisseia, tradução de Aníbal Fernandes.
- Chesneau, Albert: 1971, Essai de Psychocritique de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Archives des Lettres Modernes, nº 129.- Seixo, Maria Alzira (dir.): 2008, Dicionário de António Lobo Antunes, Lisboa, INCM, vol. I.
- Seixo, Maria Alzira (dir.): 2008, Dicionário de António Lobo Antunes, Lisboa, INCM, vol. II.
- Seixo, Maria Alzira: 2002, Os Romances de Lobo Antunes, Lisboa, Dom Quixote.
- Smith, André: 1973, La Nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Paris, Grasset.Murray, Philippe: 1981, Céline, Paris, Le Seuil, coll. Tel Quel.- Damour, Anne-Marie: 1983, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Voyage, Lisboa, PUF.
