Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Literary Genres I
Other languages of instruction: Catalan
Teaching staff
Introduction
The analysis of the evolution of poetic and dramatic literary genres gives us the key to understand the essential expressions of our culture, history and identity. Students will reach a full understanding of the essential aspects of the human condition by reading and comparatively discussing the most significant works of Literature history.
Objectives
- To understand and interpret the diverse literary creations of western culture.
- To develop the students’ own creative skills by analysing literary works.
- To identify and recognise the different formulas and mechanisms typically used in poetic and dramatic work.
- To progress in their ability for critical opinion and aesthetic judgment.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- CP05 - Students will be able to analyse socio-cultural, historical and artistic structures, from a respect for the fundamental rights of equality between men and women, using language that avoids androcentricity and stereotypes.
- HB03 - Students will be able to develop a coherent understanding and expression of ideas and arguments, both orally and in writing.
- HB04 - Students will be able to develop the capacity for analysis, synthesis and critical thinking.
- HB08 - Students will be able to research different humanistic disciplines based on an analysis and comparison of relevant information.
- HB12 - Students will be able to adequately and effectively apply methods and techniques specific to different humanities disciplines when problem solving and when elaborating critical and well-founded arguments.
- HB14 - Students will be able to critically evaluate cultural and humanistic production.
- HB17 - Students will be able to use data collection tools with a high degree of independence, such as library catalogues, archival inventories, documentary sources, electronic references and other resources.
- HB19 - Students will be able to analyse original texts or documents in their mother tongue and in other languages, with appropriate summaries and categorisation techniques.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- The student identifies the thematic and stylistic constants in the course of literary history through the comparative study of the various schools of thought and cultural traditions.
- The student recognises and deciphers the poetic and dramatic genres.
- The student understands the structure of the current literary scene in the light of tradition.
Syllabus
1.- Introduction to literary genres.
2.- Literature and Myth: Greece and Rome.
3.- European Middle Age: a dialog of traditions.
4.- Renaissance Humanism’s literary genres.
5.- The Baroque formula.
6.- Enlightenment and Romanticism: lights and shadows.
7.- From literary Realism to literary renovation in the n 20th century.
8.- Conclusions.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
This course will consist of a combination of both theory lessons (presentation of different subjects) and practice sessions (oral tests, text analysis, discussions…).
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
- Exams (60%)
- Written literary analysis (30%)
- Oral literary presentations and participation in discussions (10%)
Four short exams will represent 60% of the global evaluation. Literary analysis has two parts: a written part (30%) and an oral part with a discussion (10%).
Bibliography and resources
TEATRE / TEATRO / DRAMA
AAVV.: The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre, ed. Martin Banham, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
BOBES NAVES, M.C.: Semiología de la obra dramática, Madrid, Taurus, 1987.
CASTRI, M.: Por un teatro político: Piscator, Brecht, Artaud, Madrid, Akal, 1999
DORT, Bernard, Tendencias del teatro actual (trad. Manuel Vidal), Madrid, Fundamentos, 1975.
ESSLIN, Martin, El teatro del absurdo (trad. Manuel Herrero), Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1966.
OLIVA, César, TORRES MONREAL, Francisco, Historia básica del arte escénico, Madrid, Cátedra, 1990.
PANDOLFI, Vito (1964), Història del teatre (trad. Jaume Fuster; ed. Josep M. Benet i Jornet i Josep M. Carandell), Barcelona, Institut del Teatre. Diputació de Barcelona, 1989-1993, 3 v.
PAVIS, Patrice, Diccionario del teatro, Barcelona, Paidós, 1983.
SALVAT, R.: Historia del teatro moderno, Barcelona, Peninsula, 1981
SANCHEZ, José; A. (ed.): La escena moderna, Madrid, Akal, 1999
SZONDI, P.: Teoria del drama modern, Barcelona, Institut del Teatre, 1986.
UBERSFELD, Anne: Lire le théatre;atre (3 vols.), Paris, Editions Sociales, 1982.
POESIA / POESÍA / POETRY
Ballart, P. (1998): El contorn del poema, Barcelona, Quaderns Crema. [Trad. Castellana en El Acantilado]
Bousoño, C. (1970): Teoria de la expresión poética, 2 vols., Madrid, Gredos.
Cabo Aseguinolaza, F. (ed.) (1999): Teorías sobre la lírica, Madrid, Arco/Libros.
Eliot, T.S. (2004): El bosque sagrado, Madrid, Langre.
Friedrich, H. (1974): Estructura de la lírica moderna. De Baudelaire hasta nuestros días, Barcelona, Seix Barral.
Gómez Bedate, P. (1990): Introducción a la poesía lírica, Barcelona, PPU.
Núñez Ramos, R. (1992): La poesía, Madrid, Síntesis.
Paz, O. (1986): El arco y la lira, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Todó;, Ll. Mª; (1987): El Simbolismo. El nacimiento de la poesía moderna, Barcelona, Montesinos.