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
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 of Globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. P., 2004.
Teaching method
Lectures with integrated discussion. The films under analysis will be commented and discussed in the classroom.
Evaluation method
Continuous Assessment - classroom written assignment(50%), classroom written assignment(50%)
Subject matter
The destabilization of forms and identities we call metamorphosis is a challenging figure for the type of critical interrogation at stake in the comparative reading of artistic representations. In this course, we will ask what happens when literature, film and art in general take metamorphosis as subject matter. We will consider, on the one hand, how art problematizes identity through transformation; and how the metamorphosis of this very subject throughout the centuries reflects a continuous interrogation of the transformative powers of art itself. We will read and discuss works by Ovid, Gogol, Stevenson, Bergman, Cassavetes, Lispector, Cortázar, Cronenberg, Kafka, Guimarães Rosa, and Tourneur).