Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500245 English Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504012 Spanish and Chinese Studies: Language, Literature and Culture | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504211 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504211 Spanish Language and Literature | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504212 English Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504212 English Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 0 | 1 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504388 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OT | 0 | 1 |
2504388 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504388 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 0 | 1 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 3 | 1 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 4 | 1 |
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Taking into account that the student has proved to acquire the basic competences by obtaining the credits corresponding to the basic and compulsory training subjects, it would be mandatory to show it with oral and written correctness.For this reason, any spelling and expression mistakes that may be committed will lead to a score decrease in the final grade.
The activities, practices and papers submitted in the subject must be original and under no circumstances will plagiarism of published materials from any means be admitted. The occasional submission of non-original material without a proper reference of its origin will automatically lead to the mark of "Suspenso" (0).
Likewise, it is considered that the student knows the standard rules of academic writing and work. However, the student can apply the specific rules that the teacher of the subject may indicate if it is necessary.
Theory and practice of comparative literature is part of the minor in Comparative Literature. The purpose of the subject is that the student becomes familiar with the concepts, methods and practices of comparative literature. The student must:
To be able to write and value the contributions of comparative literature in areas such as historiography, the study of literary genres, the study of topics and literary relations.
To know which relations of comparatism have been with Literary Theory and with other disciplines, especially since the paradigm change of the 80s
To know which are the new comparative approaches tendencies and to be able to explain which are their contributions in relation to older paradigms;
To learn how to apply in a proper manner the acquired principles and methods in the cultural analysis of texts of different types.
Theory and Practice of Comparative Literature
Code 100254
Contents
Introduction to the bases and methods of literary comparatism. Brief historical review of the discipline’s different approaches. Knowledge, reflection and use of the concepts and methods of comparative literature in a dialogue with literary theory. Analysis of texts, issues and problems of literary studies from a comparative and cultural approach, typical of the new paradigm (since the 80s).
Topic:
1- Problems and proposals for the delimitation of the discipline. The paradigm shift in literary studies
Comparative literature and the objections that have defined the discipline: national/supranational, unity/diversity, local/universal. Comparative fields: supranationality, internationality, universality, interdisciplinarity, difference. The comparability. Relation of comparative literature and between theory of literature. The paradigm shift of the 80s in literary studies.
Reading: text file (Campus Virtual)
2-Literary historiography, periodization and comparatism
What does writing history of literature entail? Assumptions of literary history: relations of history with past, present, narrativity and ideology. National literary history and nationalism. General literary history and canon. Criteria for periodization and historical-literary cataloguing. Categories, terminologies and implications. The universality of History. The idea of evolution. The concept of genealogy (Foucault). The archive.
Reading: text file (Campus Virtual)
3-Literary relations: the influenceon intertextuality. The translation
The notion of influence and other related concepts. Towards overcoming the concept of influence: intertextuality.
The limits of intertextual analysis. Issues of subjectivity and authority in literary relations. Translation as an intertextual phenomenon. The tyranny of the original. The unavoidable need for rewriting.
Due appropriations: translation and canon; translation and national literary history. Prominence of studies of/on translation in recent comparatism.
Reading: text file (Campus Virtual)
4-The study of genres and forms
The formal elements and the literary object. The notion of genre: classification criteria, historical criteria.
Conventions. Genre and paratexts. The law of genre. Study of a practical case.
Readings:
Text file (Campus Virtual)
Emmanuel Carrère, L'adversari, Anagrama, Barcelona, 2020.
5-Study of topics and literary motifs
The notion of topic and related concepts. The textual indications. Thematology and comparatism: supranational study of themes and motifs; interdisciplinary study of topics and motifs. The continuation and transformation of topics: rewritings. Study of a practical case.
Readings:
Text file (Campus Virtual)
6-Comparatism and postcolonial studies
Eurocentrism of traditional models of comparatism. West/east relations. Imperialism, language and literature. Cultural brand in methods and tools of literary analysis. National identity and comparative literature. Dangers of precolonial mythification. Multiculturalism, mestizaje and hybridism. Analysis of a text.
Readings:
Text file (Campus Virtual)
Ngugui wa Thiong'o, Descolonitzar la ment, Raig Verd, Barcelona, 2017.
7-Comparatism and studies of gender, ethnicity and sexuality.
The criticism of difference. The centrality and the periphery. Around a difference. Creation, representation and profitability of the stereotype. Dynamics inside/outside. The irreducibility of the difference. Claims of the prefix RE-. Strategic essentialisms. Subaltern voices. The danger of institutionalization. Analysis of a text.
Readings:
Text file (Campus Virtual)
Kopano Matlwa, Coconut, Sembra, València, 2020
Sebastià Portell, Transbord, Lleonard Muntaner, Palma, 2018.
The learning achievement of this subject by the student is distributed as follows:
Individual activities (50%). Comprehensive and critical reading of literary and theoretical texts. Schemes, conceptual maps and summaries making.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lecture preparation, exams, courseworks | 75 | 3 | 2, 4, 5, 10, 14, 7, 26, 24, 25, 28 |
Master classes, oral presentations and assesment | 60 | 2.4 | 2, 4, 5, 10, 14, 7, 26, 24, 25, 28 |
Tutoring (scheduled in advance) | 15 | 0.6 |
The student:
You will have to submit (as a preliminary and complementary group work) a script of the oral presentation that you will perform: planning, subject, lines of research, use of comparative methods, readings of literary and non-literary texts,basic structure of your exposition, bibliography, etc. This delivery will have been done in between 7 and 14 days before the oral presentation date through a group tutorial with the teacher. That submission represent 10% of the final grade..
- Individually submit a critical review referring, completing, developing or focusing on one or more of the themes emerged in the readings or in the discussions raised in the classroom. This set of critical reviews (or course diary) constitutes a continuous evaluation system that is worth the remaining 50% of the final grade.
- The student who does not perform ANY of the mandatory activities or tests will be considered "Not evaluated"
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
UNIQUE ASSESSMENT
In the event that students opt for the single assessment, they will have to sit a final exam (40%), make a video presentation of one of the subject's topics (40%) and a review of one of the compulsory readings (20%).
These activities must be handed in the first week of January after the holidays.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Critical reviews (3 in total) | 50% | 0 | 0 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 20, 8, 6, 5, 10, 9, 18, 15, 16, 12, 11, 14, 13, 17, 7, 19, 26, 21, 24, 23, 22, 25, 28, 27 |
Delivery of the structure and topics of the oral presentation: planning, development and tools | 10% | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 5, 10, 18, 14, 7, 26, 24, 25, 28 |
Oral Presentation and participation in the classroom | 40% | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 5, 10, 18, 14, 7, 26, 24, 25, 28 |
Specific bibliography of each subject:
It will be specified throughout the course and the dossiers and the obligatory readings will be delivered
(some of them already appear in the content of this teaching guide).
General bibliography:
Anthropos [monográfico: Teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada. Actualidad de la expresión literaria], 196 (2002).
Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature. A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Bernheimer, Charles. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore and London: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Brunel, Pierre y Yves Chevrel. Précis de Littérature Comparée. Paris: Puf, 1989.
Clausen, Christopher. "National Literatures in English: Toward a New Paradigm", New Literary History, 25
(1994): 61-72.
Clüver, Claus. "The Difference of Eight Decades: World Literature and the Demise of National Literatures".
Yearbook of Comparative and generla Literature 35 (1986): 14-24.
Curtius, Ernst Robert. Literatura europea y Edad Media latina.Vols. I y II. México: FCE, 1984.
Derrida, Jacques. Universidad sin condición. Trad. Cristina de Peretti y Paco Vidarte. Madrid: Trotta, 2002.
Fokkema, Douve W. "La literatura comparada i el nou paradigma", trad. Enric Bou, Els Marges 40 (1989):
5-18.
Gnisci, Armando (ed.). Introduzione alla letteratura comparata. Milano: Mondadori, 1999. [traducció castellana
de Luigi Giuliani. Barcelona: Crítica, 2002]
Guillén, Claudio. Entre lo uno y lo diverso. Introducción a la literatura comparada. Barcelona: Crítica, 1985.
Hunter, Lynette. Literary value / cultural power. Verbal arts in the twenty-first century. Manchester: Manchester
UP, 2001.
Marino, Adrian. Comparatisme et théorie de la littérature. Paris: Puf, 1988.
Moore, Alexandra S. & Goldberg, Elizabeth S. (eds.) Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies.
New York: MLA, 2015.
Remak, Henry H. H. "Comparative Literature. Its definition and Function". Comparative Literature: Method and
Perspective. Ed. Newton P. Stalknecht. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1971: 1-57.
Romero López, Dolores (ed.). Orientaciones en literatura comparada. Madrid: Arco libros, 1998.
Saussy, Haun (ed.) Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP,
2006.
Schmeling, Manfred. Teoría y praxis de la literatura comparada. Trad. Ignacio Torres Corredor. Barcelona:
Alfa, 1984.
Spivak, Gayatri Ch. Death of a discipline. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.
Valdés, Mario J. (ed.) Toward a Theory of Comparative Literature. Selected papers presented in the Division of
theory of Literature at the Xith International Comparative Literture Congress. New York, Bern, Frankfurt, Paris:
Peter Lang, 1990.
Vega, María José y Carbonell, Neus(eds.). La literatura comparada: principios y métodos. Madrid: Gredos,
1998. [MANUAL]
Villanueva, Darío; Domingo, César y Saussy, Haun. Lo que Borges le enseño a Cervantes. Madrid: Taurus,
2016.
Weisstein, Ulrich. Introducción a la literatura comparada. Trad. María Teresa Piñel. Barcelona: Planeta, 1975.
Wellek, René y Wallek, Austin. Teoría literaria. Madrid: Gredos, 1981.
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