Modernity and Tradition: Issues of Cultural Modernity in Contemporary Portugal
Objectives
a) Promoting a general overview on the main cultural transformations during the 19th and 20th centuries b) Acquiring knowledge and skills that allow further and deepen analysis of the themes studied.
General characterization
Code
722051135
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
José Manuel Viegas Neves
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
•CHARTIER, Roger (2002), Os desafios da escrita, São Paulo, Editora UNESP.
•EAGLETON, Terry (2003), A ideia de cultura, Lisboa, Temas e Debates.
•FARIA, Miguel Figueira de, SOUSA, Paulo Silveira e, TRINDADE, Luís, MELO,
Daniel, GEORGE, João Pedro (2013-2015), “A cultura”, in Nuno Gonçalo
Monteiro e António Costa Pinto (dir.), História contemporânea de Portugal,
1808-2010, Lisboa, Objetiva, vols. 1-5.
•LOPES, João Teixeira (2007), Da democratização à democracia cultural - uma
reflexão sobre políticas culturais e espaço público, Porto, Profedições.
•MELO, Daniel (2004), A leitura pública no Portugal contemporâneo (1926-
1987), Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.
•NEVES, José (dir.; 2010), Como se faz um povo: ensaios em História
contemporânea de Portugal, Lisboa, Edições Tinta-da-China.
•PITA, António Pedro, TRINDADE, Luís (orgs.; 2008), Transformações
estruturais do campo cultural português, 1900-1950, Coimbra, CEIS20 e
Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.
Teaching method
Theorerical classes: presentation of the syllabus main topics.
Theoreitical and pratical classes: debating selected readings and audiovisual elements. Oral presentation of the readings.
Evaluation method
Método de avaliação - 1. Class participation(20%), 2. Presentation of readings(10%), 3. Written essay (supported by bibliography and empirical info (70%)
Subject matter
Introduction
1. Cultural History and the new fields of study
2. People and elites: national identity, popular culture and avanguardes
Culture and Politics
3. Education, print and reading
4. The intellectual in his labyrinth: cultural dimensions and interaction with
modes, spaces and circuits of reading and publishing
5. Cultural democratization: libraries for all; book and reading expansion;
contribution of the «apostles» of the book and reading
Cultural History Labs
6. Catalogues, book collections and innovations
7. The impact of censorship on behavior and public space
8. Reading in 19th century Portugal: audiences and choices
9. Social and cultural change: publishing, book access and uses of reading
10. New challenges: threats to bibliodiversity and pluralism; the role of
interculturality and citizenship
11.-12. Internet, (dis)information, activism and social networks
13.-14. Oral presentation of texts and debate
15.-16. Presentation and discussion of seminar final essays