Modern and Contemporary Classical Tradition

Recommended Prerequisites

Graduation in Humanities. Some knowledge in Theory of Literature, Greek Literature. Competence in reading French and English.

Teaching Methods

Seminar. Introductory and conclusive syntheses presented by the teacher. Regular discussion of syntheses on different subjects presented by the students.

Learning Outcomes

Global consideration about the presence of Classical Culture under several forms of expression in Modern Occidental Culture

- Myth and its vitality in expressing the main traces of human nature, in the establishment of social comunities, in their intellectual manifestations.

- To prepare the students to a critical reading of recreations / rewritings on Classical subjects.

- To make them conscious about the successive interpenetrations experienced by Classical tradition.

- Paritcular consideration of this tradition in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Brazilian expression.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I-Introd.

Traditio and traductio. Cultural memory and identity. Tradition, criticism and crisis. Rededescovering and rereading. German Idealism. 20.th cent.Hermeutics-reading the Greeks in a more Greek way'. Modernity, fundamentalism, errancy.

II-Classical myths/motives in the western imaginary:

1-Epic and anti-epic heroe in the contemporary context: Manuel Alegre

2-The myth of Greece- newclassic idealization and idealistic mediation

a) Romanticism and utopic Greece. Travels to Greece. Ruins. Antiquity in contemporary poetry: dialogue with roots and utopization of the past

3-in novel: Vergílio Ferreira, F. Pais Brandão/Mário de Carvalho, Lobo Antunes

4-in drama, tragedy and comedy - text and performance.

Tragic models: Antígona (Cocteau, Anouilh, Zambrano, Sérgio, António Pedro, J. Dantas, J. Castro Osório, Hélia Correia, Eduarda Dionísio); Medeia (Anouilh, Hélia Correia, Mário Cláudio, Medeia em Camariñas, Gota d'Água);

Comic models: António José da Silva, Augusto Boal, Suassuna.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria de Fátima de Sousa e Silva

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Research work: 60.0%

Bibliography

 

H. ARENDT,Entre o Passado e o Futuro,Lisboa 2006

T.CARVALHO, Epopeia e Anti-epopeia. De Virgílio a Manuel Alegre,Coimbra 2008

R. M. COUTO, ‘Subsídios para uma leitura orientada do conto A inaudita guerra da Avenida Gago Coutinho’,Máthesis12 2003 313-325

P. E. EASTERLING — B. M. W. KNOX, The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. I. 2. Greek Drama,Cambridge 1989

M.C.FIALHO,'Vergílio Ferreira e a Antiguidade Clássica' in: A literatura clássica ou os clássicos na literatura, Lisboa 2012,197-206

C. MORAIS(ed), Máscaras portuguesas de Antígona,Aveiro2001

MH ROCHA PEREIRA,Novos Ensaios sobre Temas Clássicos na Poesia Portuguesa Lisboa1988

M. F. SILVA, ‘Uma ‘tradução’ livre de Sófocles: Antigone de Jean Anouilh': Aletria 2009, 177-189

M. F. SILVA (ed.), Ensaios sobre Mário de Carvalho, Coimbra 2012

O. SILVESTRE, ‘Mário de Carvalho:revolução e contra-revolução ou um passo atrás e dois à frente’, ColóquioLetras 147/148, 1998,209-229

O. TAPLIN, Greek tragedy in action,Berkeley 1978