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Myths and Heroic Models

Objectives

a) To reflect upon literary myth, from the perspective of comparative literary studies;
b) To define heroic models and scrutinize their common underlying mythic basis;
c) To develop personal research on given texts;
d) To learn critical bibliography on the studied subjects;
e) To write textual analysis and theoretical reflexion texts on the basis of all acquired contents.

General characterization

Code

722111042

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Margarida Gouveia Esperança Pina Saraiva de Reffoios

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Brunel, P. (1992). Mythocritique. Paris: PUF Burkert, W. (2001), Mito e Mitologia. Lisboa: ed. 70. Durand, G. (1989). As estruturas Antropológicas do Imaginário. Trad.Hélder Godinho. Lisboa: Presença. Lévi-Strauss, C. (2007). Mito e Significado. Trad. António Marques Bessa. Lisboa: Edições 70. Nunes Esteves, E., Reffóios, M., Silva, M., Vilela, AL. (Eds).(2014). Representações do Mito na História e na Literatura. Évora: Cel.

Teaching method

1. seminars on topics of the syllabus focusing specifically on historic and theoretic issues; students will be introduced to methods of efficient organization of information and development of critical skills; reading critical studies and literary bibliography aims to provide students with significant scientific autonomy and the capacity to evaluate their learning progress;
2. supervised practical analysis of critical and literary texts chosen in the perspective of the course and relevant for their study and discussion with the group ;
3. Preparing students to produce an essay on a topic of the syllabus.
Seminars: 60%; lectures: 40%.
In class teaching

Evaluation method

Evaluation Method - 1 individual essay to be discussed oraly with the group (15 pages) (60%), 2 classroom assignments - oral presentations(40%)

Subject matter

1. The literary myth: historical and theoretical framework of the problem;
2. Study of mythical models and types of hero (and anti-hero) in Western Art; 3. The literary myth of \"Don Juan\":
3.1. El Burlador de Sevilla, Tirso de Molina;
3.2. Don Juan, Molière / Bertold Brecht´s version of Don Juan
3.3. D. João e a Máscara, António Patrício;
4. Rewriting the myth of Œdipus:
4.1. Jean Cocteau, La Machine infernale
4.2. Natália Correia, O progresso de Édipo
4.3. Philip Roth, The Human Stain
5. Particular structures of myth: the cathabasis and its parody; metamorphosis.