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Oral and Marginal Literatures

Code 8581
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Literaturas
Mode of delivery - Lessons of practical-theoretical nature. - Sessions of tutorial guidance.
Work placements It doesn't apply.
Learning outcomes - Have critical thinking about canonized or marginalized literature.
- Know and characterize genres of marginal texts (oral or written).
- Develop a work on the subject of oral and written margined litterature or texts on the path of literary institutional recognition. By the end of the semester, the student must be able to:
- master the concepts of literary institution, literary canon and marginality;
- explain the marginalization of some oral and written texts;
- recognize the particularities of simple and complex shapes of marginalized written and oral literatures;
- identify and characterize the different types of marginalized texts by the literary establishment;
- analyze texts from oral tradition and from marginalized written literature;
- recognize the potential of teaching and ethics of oral and marginal literature;
- develop a work with scientific rigor on the subject of oral and written margined literature.
Syllabus 1. Notion of literary institution, canon and marginality.
2. The Grimm's brothers, Propp and Jolles: milestones in the recovery of oral traditional literature;
3. Simple and complex forms of oral literature: typological distinction, function and common structures.
4. Genres of margined written literature: distinction and typological characterization. Highlighting some genres in the path of the institutional recognition.
4.1. Folk tale and children's short story: distinction. Comparativist study of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "A Fada Oriana," of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.
4.2. Literary crime fiction. Pioneering work of Poe and Conan Doyle.
4.3. Science fiction. Pioneering work of Jules Verne.

Main Bibliography Main bibliography:
ANDRESEN, Sophia de Mello Breyner, A Fada Oriana, ilustrações de Armando Alves, Porto, Figueirinhas, s/d.
ARAÚJO, Manuel António Teixeira, A Emancipação da Literatura Infantil, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2008.
BETTELHEIM, Bruno, Psicanálise dos Contos de Fadas, Venda Nova, Bertrand, 9ª ed., 2002.
BLOOM, Harold, O Cânone Ocidental, Lisboa, Temas e Debates, 2011.
ESCARPIT, Robert, Sociologia da Literatura, Lisboa, Arcádia, 1969.
GARRETT, Almeida, Romanceiro, org. de Tarracha Ferreira, Lisboa, Ulisseia, 1997.
GRIMM, Irmãos (org. de), Contos de Fadas, São Paulo, Ed. Iluminuras, 4ª ed., 2002.
JOLLES, André, Formes Simples, Paris, Seuil, 1996.
PROPP, Vladimir, Morfologia do Conto, Lisboa, Vega, 3ª ed., 1992.
SARAIVA, Arnaldo, Literatura Marginal izada, Porto, ed. de autor, 1975.
ZUMTHOR, Paul, Introduction à la Poesie Orale, Paris, Seuil, 1995.

All the other references will be recommended during the semmester.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2015-01-20

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