IPLUSO 27546

Alternative Narratologies

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  This CU approaches narrative not merely as a technique or a relationship between form and content, but as a way of structuring and framing the cognition of the various elements involved. It explores alternatives to the Aristotelian narrative model by examining literary concepts as they have been applied across literature, cinema, and other arts, with particular emphasis on comics and narrative illustration. The CU aims to understand the production of graphic-visual narratives beyond genre classifications and market-driven categories, highlighting authorial and experimental practices. Students are introduced to a broad field of artistic creation that challenges the structural and ontological boundaries of literature, cinema, illustration, and comics. The CU develops creative skills in experimentation and writing, both as a literary practice and as a tool for other media, while encouraging poetic, innovative, and self-reflexive approaches to contemporary graphic narratives.
• ProgramaProgramme

  - Unnatural Narratives: Challenges to principles of causality, logic, time, and other classical narratological structures. - Slowness: Modes of resistance to the consumption of plot-driven narratives; fostering environments rich in referential density, ambiguity, cognitive integration, and emotional impact. - Shortness: Exploration of rhythmic disjunctions, montage, and fragmentation not oriented toward linear plot construction. - Graphesis: Investigations into visual design forms and graphic environments as contributors to narrative meaning-making. - Ergodic Literature: Material structuring of texts that invite non-trivial reading protocols. - Constraints: The use of "limiting" strategies to unlock new pathways of literary and narrative exploration.
• ObjectivosObjectives

  This CU approaches narrative not merely as a technique or a relationship between form and content, but as a way of structuring and framing the cognition of the various elements involved. It explores alternatives to the Aristotelian narrative model by examining literary concepts as they have been applied across literature, cinema, and other arts, with particular emphasis on comics and narrative illustration. The CU aims to understand the production of graphic-visual narratives beyond genre classifications and market-driven categories, highlighting authorial and experimental practices. Students are introduced to a broad field of artistic creation that challenges the structural and ontological boundaries of literature, cinema, illustration, and comics. The CU develops creative skills in experimentation and writing, both as a literary practice and as a tool for other media, while encouraging poetic, innovative, and self-reflexive approaches to contemporary graphic narratives.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  ALBER, J., Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen, e Brian Richardson. "Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models". In NARRATIVE, Vol. 18, No. 2 (May 2010); pps. 113-136. ALFERI, P. (2016) Brefs. Paris: P.O.L éditeur. BAL, M. (1997). Narratology. Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. University Press of Toronto: Toronto. Ca¿layan, Emre. Poetics of Slow Cinema. Nostalgia, Absurdism, Boredom. Suíça: Palgrave Macmillan 2018. CALVINO, I. (1998), Seis Propostas para o Próximo Milénio. Teorema: Lisboa. Dancyger, K. e Jeff Rush. (2007) Alternative Scriptwriting. Successfully Breaking the Rules. Amsterdão: Focal Press/Elsevier. JAFFE, I. (2014) Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action. Nova Iorque: Wallflower Press.  
• MetodologiaMethodology

  As a course unit that is potentially theoretical in nature, the focus will be placed on a series of short writing and presentation exercises centered on the students' own work, aimed at applying the discussed narratological elements or concepts. There will be theoretical presentations offering general frameworks for each dimensions under discussion, always accompanied by examples of recognized works in the relevant fields, which will serve as models for the students' future research and creative exploration. Striving to integrate the transversal content of the other course units as much as possible, this approach will also help students to strengthen the conceptual foundation of their individual projects.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  5
• NaturezaNature

  Optional
• EstágioInternship

  Não