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Literature and Image

Code 16596
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload TP(45H)
Scientific area Literatura
Entry requirements Fluency in Portuguese.
Learning outcomes 1. Promote a discussion around some key concepts, such as representation, interpretation and transmediality;
2. Explore the relationship between Literature and other arts;
3. Promote an analysis of visual products: paintings, photography, theater performances and movies;
4. Develop critical capacities in order to analyse artistic, visual and literary objects;
5. Plan, write and present academic papers.
Syllabus 1. Key concepts: interpretation, representation, intertextuality, hybridization, intermediality and transmediality;
2. Text and Meaning;
3. The concept of Literature;
4. The Literary analysis;
5. The power of images;
6. The visual analysis.
6.1 How to do a painting analysis: some rules;
6.2 How to do a movie analysis (formal and contextual);
7. Some examples of relationships between literary, visual and cinematographic objects;
8. Theoretical and thematic materializations of Lusophony and its Lusotopies;
9. Elaboration of practical exercises.
Main Bibliography AGUIAR E SILVA, Vítor Manuel de (1986), Teoria da Literatura. Coimbra: Almedina.

APARICI, Roberto & GARCIA MATILLA, Augustin (1989), Lectura de Imágines. Madrid: de la Torre.

BAETENS, J. (2008), Novelization: From Film to Novel. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

BRUHN, Jørgen (2016), The Intermediality of Narrative Literature: Medialities Matter. Londres: Palgrave Macmillan.

CLÉDER, Jean & JULLIER, Laurent (2017), Analyser une adaptation: du texte à l'écran. Paris: Flammarion.

GAUTHIER, Guy (1996), Veinte lecciones sobre la imagen y el sentido. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra.

GRISHAKOVA, Marina & RYAN, Marie-Laure eds. (2010), Intermediality and Storytelling. Berlim: De Gruyter.

GUIMARÃES, F. (2003), Artes Plásticas e Literatura. Porto: Campo das Letras.

JOLY, M. (1994), Introdução à Análise da Imagem. Lisboa: Edições 70.

MCFARLANE, B. (1996), Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria This course unit will include a theoretical component, delivered through lectures and the promotion of debates on the proposed topics, as well as a practical component, consisting of exercises analyzing literary and visual objects. Assessment will be based on the production of a scientific article along with its presentation (60% + 20% of the final grade), which should reflect the intertextuality between a literary work of the student’s choice and one or more visual objects. Attendance and critical participation in class will also be assessed (20% of the final grade), with a minimum attendance requirement of 80% of the sessions.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-09-19

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