Poetics in the XXth and XXIth centuries.
Code
722111059
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Acquisition of a panoramics of the main tendancies of the European Poetry of the XXth century.
2. The continuity of poetic propposals since the Modernism until today.
3. To undersatand the differences and ressemblamves between the poetics since Symbolism until Post-Modernism.
4. Definition of the concept of Poetics and how it applies to the individual practices of poetic creation.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
A. A view of the poetry of the XXth and XXth centuries through a study of the main caracteristics of the poets influents in the Canon.
1. Poetry and thought.
2. The subject: identy and difference.
3. Poetry and other arts.
4. The experience of word and the rupture of the formal limits of the poem.
B. Theoretical problems.
1. Literary history: generation, movements, magazines.
2. Problems in the analysis of poetic text.
3. Comparative poetics.
Bibliography
TEIXEIRA DE PASCOAES, Os Poetas Lusíadas. Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim.
JOÃO GASPAR SIMÕES. 1931. O mistério da poesia. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade. (reed. Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda).
JOSÉ RÉGIO. 1977. Páginas de doutrina e crítica da Presença.Brasília: Brasília Editora.
ANDRÉ BRETON. 1977. Manifestes du surréalisme. paris: Idées/Gallimard.
EDUARDO LOURENÇO . 1988. Tempo e Poesia. Lisboa: Relógio dÁgua.
EDUARDO LOURENÇO. 1993. O canto do signo. Lisboa: Presença.
Teaching method
Seminars: 60%; lectures: 40%.
1. seminars on topics of the syllabus focusing specifically on historic and theoretic issues; students will be introduced to methods of efficient organization of information and development of critical skills as well as to methods for management of research resources; reading critical studies and literary bibliography aims to provide students with significant scientific autonomy and the capacity to evaluate their learning progress; 2. supervised practical analysis of critical and literary texts chosen in the perspective of the course and relevant for their study and discussion with the group ;
3. Preparing students to produce an essay on a topic of the syllabus.
Evaluation method
1. Two classroom assignments - oral presentations;
2. An individual essay to be discussed oraly with the group (15 pages).