Comparative Studies in Iberian Literature
Code
722111040
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Isabel Rute Araújo Branco
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To develop skills in knowledge of the literatures of the Iberian Peninsula, from the perspective of comparative literature.
b) To depth knowledge of the respective social and historical-artistic-literary, national, Iberian and European contexts.
c) To know the contexts which determine those constructions.
d) To study the proposed texts to prepare a personal investigation.
e) To produce work of textual analysis and theoretical reflection, applying the knowledge acquired.
f) To produce na autonomous research project and a research paper, which will be presented and debated orally.
Prerequisites
Medium knowledge of Spanish.
Subject matter
1. The magical realism concept.
2. The origins of the Iberian magical realism: folk traditions, everyday practices, beliefs and attitudes, culture and literature over the centuries.
3. Processes receiving the Spanish-American magical realism in the Iberian Peninsula in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
4. Contemporary Iberian literatures:
a) Os Casos do Beco das Sardinheiras, de Mário de Carvalho (1982); and A Jangada de Pedra, de José Saramago (1986).
b) Si o vello Sinbad volvese as illas (Cuando el viejo Simbad vuelva a las islas), de Álvaro Cunqueiro (1961); Cantiga de agüero, de Carmen Gómez Ojea (1982); and Bi anai (Dos hermanos), de Bernardo Atxaga (1985).
Bibliography
Bowers, Maggie Ann. 2004. Magic(al) Realism, Routledge, New York.
Guillén, Claudio. 2005. Entre lo uno y lo diverso. Introducción a la Literatura Comparada (ayer y hoy), Tusquets Editores, Barcelona.
Gracia, Jordi (ed.).2004. La llegada de los bárbaros: la recepción de la narrativa hispanoamericana en España, 1960-1981. EDHASA, Barcelona.
Melo, João de. 1998. «Gabriel García Márquez e o Realismo Mágico Latino-Americano», Camões. Revista de Letras e Culturas Lusófonas, n.º 2,.
Rico, Francisco (coord.). 2001. Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española, Ed. Crítica, Barcelona,
Saramago, José. 1992. «A Península Ibérica entre a Europa e a América Latina», Revista Vértice, n.º 47.
Silva, Teresa Cristina Cerdeira da. 1989. José Saramago. Entre a História e a Ficção: Uma Saga de Portugueses, Dom Quixote, Lisboa.
Simson, Ingrid (ed.), 2007. América en España: influencias, intereses, imágenes, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Frankfurt.
Teaching method
Presentation of the various topics by the lecturer; reading and discussion of a selection of texts covering the topics outlined in the syllabus;
Tutorial supervision of the research work related to the final paper chosen by the student.
Evaluation method
1-Oral presentations, seminars, readings and research results on the objectives of the seminar and its group discussion (40%); 2- written and oral discussion of a final work, individual, including bibliography (12-15 pages), guided by the teacher (60%).