Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

Literary Genres I

• code 12306
• course 4
• term Semester 1
• type OB
• credits 6

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan

Head instructor

Dr. Marc SOGUES - msogues@uic.es

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.

- 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.

• E14 - To develop the ability for critical analysis with regard to literary and artistic expression.
• E22 - To acquire knowledge of and the ability to use data collection instruments (biliographic catalogues, inventory archives, documentary sources, electronic sources, etc).
• E26 - Ability to read and write texts in one's own language and other languages, as well as transcribe, summarise and categorise pertinent information.
• G01 - To analyse and interpret social and cultural environments to identify need, opportunities, weaknesses and strenghts..

- 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.

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.

This course will consist of a combination of both theory lessons (presentation of different subjects) and practice sessions (oral tests, text analysis, discussions…).

• 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%).

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.