Language and Writing

Recommended Prerequisites

Level C1 in English.

Teaching Methods

The methodology followed in the classes of this seminar obeys the theoretical-practical nature of the curricular unit and the seminar regime recommended in a Masters degree. In expository classes, the contents will be discussed based on historical and theoretical texts; the more practical classes will encourage the master's students to approach different kinds of creative texts (literary, journalistic, interartistic, etc.), in order to produce a reflection on the operationalization of the aforementioned historical and theoretical contents.

Learning Outcomes

This program aims at:

1. Reflecting on the nature of language and text;

2. Teaching the history of that kind of the reflection;

3. Making visible the disruptive potential of literary language and text;

4. Providing the skills to deal with the problematics of textuality, whether in traditional or in experimental contexts;

5.  Promoting the critical reading of texts that open up perspectives on all the possible interdisciplinary, intertextual, intermodal and interarts crossings of language and textuality.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The matter of writing: from language to text

    1.1. The materiality of language and its social and political nature;

    1.2. Pleasure and power of language;

    1.3. The social and political function of text;

2. Creative writing: models and critical theory

    2.1. The different models of creative writing: interdisciplinarity and hybrydity;

    2.2. Poetic justice and the criteria for universal literary judgemnt;

    2.3. The "legibility" and/or the "truth" of a text;

    2.4. Transdiscoursivity and transindividuality ("objectivity"/"subjectivity"; "fiction"/"factuality");

    2.5. From text to hypertext.

Head Lecturer(s)

Graça Maria Constantino Nunes de Oliveira Capinha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 50.0%
Synthesis work: 50.0%

Bibliography

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BARTHES, R. 2006 O Grau Zero da Escrita. Edições 70.

BENJAMIN, W. 2008 Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Penguin Books

BERNSTEIN, Ch. 2016 Pitch of Poetry. Univ. of Chicago P.

BERNSTEIN, Ch. 2011 Attack of the Difficult Poems. Univ. of Chicago P.

EDWARDS, H.& LOCKHEART, J. 2018 “Creative Writing and the Other Arts”.In:Harper,G.ed. 2013.A Companion to Creative Writing. Wiley-Blackwell, p.144-159.

FAIRCLOUGH, N. 2001 Language and Power. Pearson Education.

FOUCAULT, M. 2014 As Palavras e as Coisas. Edições 70.

KEEBLE, R. e WHEELER, S. eds 2007 The Journalistic Imagination. Routledge

MORLEY,D. 2007 The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing.Cambridge Univ. Press

PERLOFF, M. 2016 Edge of Irony. Univ. of Chicago P.

PERLOFF, M. 2010 Unoriginal Genius. Univ. of Chicago P.

PHILIP, M. N. 2017 Blank: Essays and Interviews. Book*hug Press.

WOLFE, T. 2010 The New Journalism. MacMillan.