Problemas Críticos da Literatura Brasileira (not translated)
Code
711091126
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To increase the knowledge of Brazilian literature; b) To understand the central problems of development and present of Brazilian literature, by reviewing the major debates at decisive moments and reading the works that are linked to them;
c) To acquire knowledge about the Brazilian contribution to world literature, deepening the study of some key players for this contribution; d) To acquire knowledge about the problems of world literature, relations between countries and literature, the problem of national specificity of literature and the historicity of literature notion; e) deepen the knowledge of literary theory, the experience of literary reading and the mastery of literary analysis techniques.
Prerequisites
Not appplied.
Subject matter
1) The Brazilian modernism: the structuring of contemporary Brazilian literature.
a) Mário de Andrade and the balance of the modernist movement;
2) Revising modernism:
a) The ´50s and the new Brazilian poetry: Drummond, Jorge de Lima, Manuel Bandeira;
3) The case of fiction as modernism revisionism. Theories of modernist survival.
a) The romance of 30. Readings on Graciliano Ramos, Cyro dos Anjos and Cornelio Pena.
b) Guimarães Rosa and the modernist legacy.
Bibliography
Mário de Andrade, «O Movimento Modernista» (1942), Aspectos da literatura brasileira, 5.ª ed., São Paulo, Livraria Martins, 1974.
Abel Barros Baptista e Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre, «Conversa interessantíssima», apresentação de Seria uma rima, não seria uma solução. Antologia da poesia modernista brasileira (1922-1930), Lisboa, Cotovia, 2005.
Abel Barros Baptista, \"Definição do modernismo brasileiro\", in De espéice complicada. Ensaios de critica literária. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2010.
Mário da Silva Brito, História do Modernismo Brasileiro. Antecedentes da Semana de Arte Moderna, 6.ª ed., Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira, 1997.
João Luiz Lafetá, 1930: a crítica e o modernismo, 2.ª ed., São Paulo, Livraria Duas Cidades/Editora 34, 2000.
Arnaldo Saraiva, Modernismo brasileiro e modernismo português. Subsídios para o seu estudo e para a história das suas relações, Campinas, Unicamp, 2004.
Teaching method
Percentage of practical classes: 60%. Predominance of readings and analysis in class, with lectures introducing the texts and organizing conclusions.
Evaluation method
In the evaluation, student participation will have an important weight, between 20 and 30%. A midterm paper corresponds to 35% of the final grade, and a final paper will be worth between 35% and 45%. The determination of these weights depends on the texts to study each year and the degree of difficulty they present.