Works of Contemporary Portuguese Literature - 2nd semester
Code
711091124
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Paula Cristina Costa
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To study some authors of the second half of the twentieth-century and the first decade of the twenty-first century, meaningful of important poetics of our literature for those decades.
To study specific aspects of the works of each of them as well as some of the major tendences of our Contemporary Literature.
To develop the critical capabilities required by students to analyse different texts.
To establish dialogs between the different poetics of the studied authors.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Some Contemporary Poetics: from the tiniest to the excess
I Sophia de Mello Breyner
II António Ramos Rosa
III Herberto Helder
IV Ruy Belo
V José Agostinho Baptista
VI Gonçalo M. Tavares
Bibliography
Andersen, Sophia Mello Breyner, Obra Poética, Lisboa, Caminho, 2011 (Escolha de textos)
Baptista, José Agostinho, Biografia, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2000 (Escolha de textos)
Belo, Ruy , Todos os Poemas, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2000 (Escolha de textos)
Helder, Herberto , Os Passos em Volta, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 7ª ed., 1997 (Escolha de Textos)
Rosa, António Ramos, Antologia Poética, Lisboa, Dom Quixote, 2001 (Escolha de Textos)
Tavares, Gonçalo M., Uma Viagem à Índia, Lisboa, Caminho, 3ª ed., 2011 (Escolha de excertos).
Teaching method
To present and to question theoretical concepts. Analysis of texts. Oral discussion of some aspects and themes of the texts.
Evaluation:
To present and to question theoretical concepts. Analysis of texts. Oral discussion of some aspects and themes of the texts.
Evaluation:
Two mandatory individual exams (each accounting for 50% of the final grade) and one optional course-work. If the student chooses to do this course-work, each component will acount for 1/3 of the final grade.
Evaluation method
Two mandatory individual exams (each accounting for 50% of the final grade) and one optional course-work. If the student chooses to do this course-work, each component will acount for 1/3 of the final grade.