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Mythology and Rhetoric

Code 8574
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area História das Culturas
Mode of delivery In person, in class, or by distance learning.
Work placements Does not apply.
Learning outcomes Discuss the concept of myth
Understand the importance of Rhetoric
Provide a space to consider mythology in different cultures
Check the survival and processing of mythological elements in Lusophone culture
Promote the understanding of the use and the dialogism of Mythology with the Rhetoric
At the end of the semester, the student should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Reveal awareness of myths.
- Show that it is capable of critical thinking; demonstrate communicative hability; communicate effectively and persuasively.
- Produce written texts and oral methodologies with rhetoric elements.
Syllabus - Myth: concept and importance.
- Rhetoric: concept and importance.
- Uses of mythology with rhetorical purposes in literary texts and discursive uses: development of practical exercises of reading, interpretation, writing and speaking.
Main Bibliography Black, E. (1978), Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method. Madison, U. of Wisconsin P.
Desbordes, F. (1996), La Rhétorique antique, Paris, Hachette.
Grimal, P. (1985), Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Oxford, Hyslop.
Hamilton, E. (1970), A Mitologia, Lisboa,Europa-América.
Kennedy, G.(1999), Classical rhetoric and its Christian and secular tradition from ancient to
moderm times, Chapel Hill/London, U. of North Carolina P.
Lausberg, H. (1993), Elementos de Retórica Literária, Lisboa, FCG.
Leeming, D. (2005), The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, Oxford, Oxford UP.
Lunsford, A. ed. (1995), Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition, Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P.
Pepe, C. (2013), The Genres of Rhetorical Speeches in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Leiden, Brill.
Smith, W. ed. (1870), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Boston, C. Little
and J. Brown.
References to full reading of Bibliography Active: set at the beginning of each year.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2015-01-20

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