Contemporary Portuguese Literature - 1st semester
Code
722091081
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Paula Cristina Costa
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To define and to discuss the concepts of modern literature, contemporary literature, and classical literature.
To study some Portuguese authors in their dialogs between the classic and the contemporary: from Cesário Verde to Fernando Pessoa; from Cesário to Cesariny, Sophia, Nuno Júdice, Paulo José de Miranda and other contemporary poets. To study «Viagem à Índia» from Gonçalo M. Tavares and its dialogs with Camões, Homero and James Joyce.
From the analysis of these classic and contemporary texts, to develop the critical capabilities required to students to reflect on and to research the contemporary, not only as a historical category, but also as an aesthetic one.
Prerequisites
NOne.
Subject matter
I
The Portuguese Contemporary Poetry : definition dificulties
Modern/Post-Modern ; Classical/Contemporary
II
Cesário Verde to Fernando Pessoa : Modernism / Modernity. The Contemporary .
Cesário Verde to other Portuguese poets : Cesariny , Sophia , Nuno Judice ... .
Cesário Verde to Paulo José de Miranda : from poetry to fiction
III
Homero, Camões, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Joyce : the classical epic to the \"counter-epic \" contemporary
Ulysses to Bloom : several wanderings
Bibliography
Agamben, Giorgio, «O que é o Contemporâneo?», in Nudez, Lisboa, Relógio D`Água, 2010
Baudelaire, Charles, «Modernidade», in O Pintor da Vida Moderna, Lisboa, Vega, 2006
Calvino, Italo, «Porquê ler os clássicos» in Porquê ler os clássicos, lisboa, Teorema, 1994
Tavares, Gonçalo M. Viagem à Índia, Lisboa, Caminho, 3ª ed., 2011
Verde, Cesário, O Sentimento dum Ocidental»; «De Tarde», «Contrariedades» in Cesário Verde, Obra Completa, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1992
Teaching method
To present and to question theoretical concepts. Analysis of texts. Oral discussion of some aspects and themes of the texts.
Evaluation method
Written essay (20 pages) based on an individual research supervised by the teacher.