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Literary Criticism and Creative Writing

Code 10957
Year 2
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Literaturas
Entry requirements There is not.
Mode of delivery Lessons of practical-theoretical nature. There are also sessions of tutorial guidance.
Work placements There are no work placements.
Learning outcomes This course unit aims to study literary criticism, based on concepts of literary theory, and also the creation of artistic texts, through practical exercises.
1. Show knowledge of the main trends of literary critical studies in Classical Antiquity, as well as throughout the XIX, XX and XXI centuries.
2. Apply techniques for analyzing the lyric and narrative texts, as well as be able to explain the specific dimensions of the dramatic text and the essay.
3. Reveal ability to produce poetic texts that respect some basic principles of the exercise of literary creation.
Syllabus 1. History of the lexeme "literature".
2. Plato and Aristotle;
3. Rhetoric: its importance to the deviation theories.
4. The idealist stylistic.
5. The Russian formalists.
6. Roman Jakobson:
- Literary Studies and Linguistic Studies;
- the theory of the poetic function.
7. Structuralism.
8. The pragmatic study of literature.
9. The aesthetics of reception: R. Ingarden, Iser, U. Eco and others.
10. Deconstruction.
11. The lyrical text analysis.
12. The narrative text analysis.
13. Discussing literary periodization.
14. Study of the dramatic text: its specificity.
15. Practical exercises to create lyrical texts.
16. The essay as a borderline gender.

This syllabus contains several points that develop either the critical and the creative dimension of the literary activity.
Main Bibliography 1. Main bibliography

Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva, "Teoria da Literatura", Coimbra, Almedina.
José María Pozuelo Yvancos, "Teoría del Lenguaje Literario", Madrid, Cátedra.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2020-01-16

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