Comparative Literature
Objectives
This course is designed to develop a degree of competence in analysis and critical writing and to strenghthen reading, theoretical thinking and argumentation skills applied to the comparative study of Literature.The capacity to build up relations and theoretical problems will be trained through the analysis of a selection of works and themes, with focus on theoretical, interarts and interdisciplinary relations.
General characterization
Code
01100539
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Clara Maria Abreu Rowland
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
BROWN, Sarah A., Ovid. Myth and Metamorphosis. London: Bristol Classical Press.
CLARKE, Bruce, Allegories of Writing. The Subject of Metamorphosis. Albany: SUNY, 1995.
CLARKE, Bruce, Posthuman Metamorphosis. Narrative and Systems. New York: Fordham U P, 2008.
GROSS, Kenneth, The Dream of the Moving Statue. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.
MASSEY, Irving, The Gaping Pig. Literature and Metamorphosis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
SAUSSY, Haun (org.), Comparative Literature in an Age ofGlobalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. P., 2004.
WARNER, Marina, Fantastic Metamorphosis, Other Worlds, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.
Teaching method
Lectures with integrated discussion. Commented screening of the films under analysis.
Evaluation method
2 written classroom assignments (50% each) or a classroom assignment and a final paper (50% each)
Subject matter
15/2 Introduction to the syllabus
20/2 Vertigo, A. Hitchcock
22/2 Vertigo, A. Hitchcock
27/2 Vertigo and Ovid's Metamorphoses
29/2 Vertigo and Ovid's Metamorphoses
5/3 Ovid's Metamorphoses
7/3 L. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
12/3 Gogol, The Overcoat and The Nose
14/3 R. Torpor, The Tenant
19/3 R. Torpor, The Tenant
21/3 R. Torpor, The Tenant
Páscoa
2/4 Robert L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
4/4 Robert L. Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
9/4 Ingmar Bergman: Persona
11/4 Ingmar Bergman: Persona
16/4 Closing of the first section of the syllabus
18/4 Written classroom assessment
23/4 Metamorphosis and the human: Clarice Lispector, “A Menor Mulher do Mundo” e “A Quinta História”
30/4 David Cronenberg: The Fly
2/5 David Cronenberg: The Fly
7/5 Kafka, “The Transformation”
9/5 Kafka, “The Transformation”
14/5 Kafka, “The Transformation”
16/5 Jacques Tourneur, Cat People
21/5 Jacques Tourneur, Cat People
23/5 J. G. Rosa, “Meu Tio o Iauaretê”
28/5 J. G. Rosa, “Meu Tio o Iauaretê”
30/5 Written classroom assessment
Avaliação. 2 exercícios escritos presenciais (50%) ou 1 exercício escrito (o 1º), um trabalho (50% cada)