Main Literature Works of the West II

Objectives

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.

Program

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”.

Teaching Methodologies

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.

Bibliography

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.