Literary Modes and Genres (20094)
Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th.
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages:catalan
Teaching Staff: Dolors Ollé
1. Presentation of the subject
Genres and forms of the literary discourse
The course is intended as a formative process to favour the practice of the reflexive skills, of analytical imagination and of personal discourse on the literary texts in its different genres. The course will be based on the reflection about the use of basic Literature Theory strategies for the practice of professional reading. The contents propose: (a) a reflection about the literary genres as a structural category of the system, and (b) the analysis of the forms, actions and intentions, as powerful elements for the construction of meaning.
2. Competences to be attained
| General competences | Specific competences |
| Reading exercises. Development of the textual interpretative imagination and of the analytical reasoning. Form and meaning: observation and reflection about the meaning of the form as a meaningful strategy. Linguistic self-conscience. |
Genres and forms: theory and exemplary texts. Fundamental historical and philological contents about literary genres: tradition and modernity. The genres in the construction of meaning. Literary discourse: actions and intentions. |
3. Contents
1. Literature as discourse and as system.
2. Literary communication: meaning, sense and reference.
3. The meaning of form. Levels of poetic analysis.
4. Fiction and diction: speech and actions. Subjectivities, objects and mediations.
5. The poetics of the genres. The poetic form: the lyric I.
6. Narrative form: narration and mediations.
7. Dramatic form: text, paratextuality and spectacle.
*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology, and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.
4. Assessment
5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
5.2. Complementary bibliography
5.3. Teaching resources
6. Metodology
7. Planning of activities