Biography writing

Objectives

Available soon

General characterization

Code

7220911666

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Maria Antónia Neves Nazaré de Oliveira

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

  • AAVV, Lives for Sale, edit. Mark Bostridge, London, Continuum, 2004.
  • BAKEWELL, Sarah, How To Live. A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, London, Vintage, 2011.
  • BARNES, Julian, O Papagaio de Flaubert, Quetzal, 2010.
  • CASTRO, Ruy, O Anjo Pornográfico. A Vida de Nelson Rodrigues, Lisboa, Tinta da China, 2017.
  • HAMILTON, Nigel, How To Do a Biography. A Primer, Harvard U. Press, 2008.
  • HOLMES, Richard, Footsteps. Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, London, Flamingo, 1995.
  • MARÍAS, Javier, Vidas Escritas, trad. Salvato Telles de Menezes, Lisboa, Quetzal, 2018. MALCOLM, Janet, A Mulher Calada, Companhia das Letras, 1995.
  • MIRANDA, Paulo José, A Morte Não É Prioritária. Biografia de Manoel de Oliveira, Contraponto, 2019.
  • OLIVEIRA, Maria Antónia, Alexandre O’Neill. Uma Biografia Literária, Lisboa, Dom Quixote, 2007.
  • Rollynson, Carl, A Higher Form of Canibalism? Adventures in the Arts and Politics of Biography, Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
  • STRACHEY, Lytton, Eminent Victorians, London, Penguin Books, 1986.
  • Valente, Vasco Pulido, Glória. Biografa de J. C. Vieira de Castro, Lisboa, Gótica, 2001.
  • WOOLF, Virginia, Orlando. A Biography, London, Vintage, 2002.

Teaching method

Available soon

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

Available soon

Programs

Programs where the course is taught: