1. To know and use adequately the key terms and concepts, as well as the analytical tools required by an proficient reading of literary texts;
2. To use adequately the key terms / concepts and the analytical tools mentioned in 1), whenever facing the same kind of texts, even if pertaing to different contexts;
3. To be able to face and actualize, in an appropriate manner, the aesthetic and cognitive scope of a literary texts, and of the special kind of world emerging from it.
1. Key terms / concepts and analytical tools:
1.1. Great books / classic / canon;
1.2. Literary mode/ literary genre;
1.3. Tragic / tragedy / dramatic text / theatrical text.
2. Texts and contexts — three moments for the reading the tragic:
2.1. Sofocles — “OEdipus Rex”;
2.2. William Shakespeare — “King Lear”;
2.3. Jean Racine — “Fedre”.
Classes will be theoretical-practical in nature: presentation of the key terms an concepts, the analytical devices, and the data required by the various themes to be covered.
Sófocles. REI ÉDIPO, em Sófocles. TRAGÉDIAS. Coimbra: Minerva, 2003.
Shakespeare, William. REI LEAR. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2005.
Racine, Jean. FEDRA. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003.
Aristóteles. POÉTICA. Lisboa: Fundação calouste Gulbenkian, 2004.
Bobes Naves, María del Carmen, ed. TEORÍA DEL TEATRO. Madrid: Arco / Libros, 1997.
Easterling, P. E., ed. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO GREEK TRAGEDY. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.
Machado, Roberto. O NASCIMENTO DO TRÁGICO. DE SCHILLER A NIETSZCHE. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2006.
Romilly, Jacqueline de. A TRAGÉDIA GREGA. Lisboa: Edições 70, 1999.
Silva, Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva. TEORIA DA LITERATURA. Coimbra: Almedina, 2011, 8.ª edição.
Sullà, Enric, ed. EL CANON LITERARIO. Madrid: Arco / Libros, 1998.
Szondi, Peter. ENSAIO SOBRE O TRÁGICO. Rio de Janeiro:Jorge Zahar, 2004.
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