Contemporary Poetics - 1st semester

Objectives

a) Aprofundar o conhecimento das correntes que, ao longo dos séculos XX e XXI, transformaram os modos de escrita e os modos de relação entre a escrita e a leitura.
b) Estudar a relevância das poéticas da contemporaneidade, no quadro de uma produção colaborativa entre várias artes, literária, plástica ou cinematográfica.
c) Analisar modos concretos da relação entre palavra e imagem na página e no livro.
d) Analisar a importância da performatividade.
e) Analisar os modos de produção literária em ambiente electrónico.
f) Desenvolver a capacidade de identificar e potenciar os elementos mais experimentais da produção literária contemporânea, estudando a sua incidência nos modos editoriais.

General characterization

Code

722091139

Credits

10

Responsible teacher

Fernando Cabral Martins

Hours

Weekly - 3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None.

Bibliography

AMIEL, Vincent (2007), \"Esthétique du Montage\", 3.ª ed., Paris, Armand Colin
BARTHES, Roland (1968), «The Death of the Author», in \"Literature in the Modern World\", Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990
BORNSTEIN, Georges (2001), \"Material Modernism. The Politics of the Page\"
DELEUZE, Gilles, e GUATTARI, Félix (1976), «A Thousand Plateaux», [«Rhizome»], in \"Literary Theory: An Anthology\", Oxford, Blackwell, 1998
FOUCAULT, Michel (1969), «What is an Author?», in \"Literature in the Modern World\", Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990
LANDOW,Georges P. (2006), Hypertext 3.0, Baltimore, The John Hopkins University Press
LOXLEY, James (2007), Performativity, Londres, Routledge
MACLUHAN, Marshall (1962), The Gutenberg Galaxy: the Making of Typographic Man, Toronto, The Toronto University Press
SITNEY, P. Adams (1990), \"Modernist Montage\", Nova Iorque, Columbia University Press

Teaching method

Exposure to historical and theoretical elements and its discussion in class, interspersed with the analysis of reference texts.

Evaluation method

Presentation of work in class, including a text analysis of about 5 pages, as well as a written essay of about 15 pages.

Subject matter

1- Text and the dependence on context: «Pierre Ménard» by J. L. Borges. The contemporary unravelling of that dependence: Deleuze and Guattari´s «rhizome».
2- The text as a process. Principles of Genetic Criticism: towards a science of writing.
3- The opposition between linguistic and bibliographic code. Effects of graphic materiality: William Blake as a reference; literary journals; different types of graphic novels; Gonçalo M. Tavares´ fiction with photographs.
4- The combination of verbal, plastic and phonographic texts: relations book-cd, book-dvd. Examples of Pessoa, Cesariny, Haroldo de Campos.
5- The performing quality as a concept and as an Avant-Garde vector: the paradigmatic case of Almada Negreiros, the manifests, the conferences and the theatre. Alberto Pimenta as a performer.
6- Montage as a mode of written production: the examples of Huismans, Eliot, Burroughs, Alexandre O´Neill, Herberto Helder, Godard, César Monteiro.

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