Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Topics of Literature written in Portuguese - 2nd semester

Code

722091126

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Estudos Portugueses

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Clara Maria Abreu Rowland

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course is designed to develop an advanced level of competence in analysis and critical production and to reinforce writing /reading competences and theoretical reflection and argumentation skills applied to a varied set of texts and essays. The capacity to build up relations and theoretical problems will be trained through the analysis of the selected works and themes.

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

RELAYS – LETTERS AND LETTER-WRITING IN LITERATURE WRITTEN IN PORTUGUESE
Stemming from the theoretical interrogation of the relations between letter-writing and literature, this seminar will focus on texts and films that explicitly enact the letter as a figure, while conveying issues such as destination, authority, materiality and the representation of writing or reading. The line of inquiry at stake will be discussed and put to test through reading and discussion of poems, novels and films from the universe of Literature written in Portuguese: works by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Ruy Belo, Bernardo Carvalho, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Camilo Castelo Branco, Manoel de Oliveira e Pedro Costa, among others.

Bibliography

Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, Antologia Poética. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2007. Carvalho, Bernardo, Nove Noites. Lisboa: Cotovia, 2002.

Carvalho, Ruy Duarte de, Os Papéis do Inglês. Lisboa: Cotovia, 2000.

Castelo Branco, Camilo, Amor de Perdição. Lisboa: INCM, 2012.
Belo, Ruy, Todos os Poemas – I, II, III. Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2004.

(filmografia)
Amor de Perdição, real. Manoel de Oliveira, 1978.
Casa de Lava, real. Pedro Costa, 1994.

Juventude em Marcha, real. Pedro Costa, 2006.

Teaching method

Classes combine theoretical and practical activities, including lecturing, group discussion and the students’ participation. Most working materials (namely recommended texts) are provided in anthologies and at the e-earning platform.

Evaluation method

The course follows a process of continuous evaluation. The final grade corresponds to the weighted average of two mandatory exercises: one paper, to be discussed individually during the semester; and a shorter essay/reaction paper, with discussion integrated in the course´s progress.

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