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Portuguese Literature in the 20th Century

Objectives

o study the main authors of the Portuguese Modernism: Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Almada Negreiros.

To study the Portuguese Modernism in the context of the european avant-garde: cubism, futurism, sensacionism and other isms.

To analyse some «revues» from the Portuguese Modernism: «Orpheu», «Portugal Futurista».

From the analysis of some important texts of the Portuguese Modernism, to develop the critical capabilities required for students to reflect on and to research about the Portuguese Modernism, as well as to be able to study in depth the work of the authors studied.

General characterization

Code

711091116

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Paula Cristina Lopes da Costa, Golgona Luminita Anghel

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

Burger, Teoria da Vanguarda, Lisboa, Vega/Universidade, 1993

Compagnon, Antoine, Les Cinq Paradoxes de la Modernité, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1990

Guimarães, Fernando, Simbolismo, Modernismo e Vanguardas, Porto, Lello & Irmãos Ed., 1992

Campos, Álvaro de, Poesia, Ed. Teresa Rita Lopes, Lisboa, Assírio &Alvim, 2002

Negreiros, Almada, Nome de Guerra, Lisboa, Ed. Assírio & Alvim, 2001

Orpheu I, II e III, Lisboa, Contexto, 1982

Sá-Carneiro, Mário, Poemas Completos, Ed. Fernando Cabral Martins, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 1996

Sá-Carneiro, Mário, A Confissão de Lúcio, Lisboa, Ed. Fernando Cabral Martins, Assírio & Alvim, 1999

Teaching method

To present and to question theoretical concepts. Analysis of texts. Oral discussion of some aspects and themes of the texts.

Evaluation method

Assessment - Two mandatory individual exams (each accounting for 50% of the final grade) and one optional course-work. If the student chooses to do this course-work, each component will acount for 1/3 of the final grade.(100%)

Subject matter

I. The Portuguese Modernism: between tradition and «avant-garde»
The «Orpheu» group. The «revues». The «interarts» project.
The isms: paulism, interseccionism, cubism, futurism, sensacionism and other isms.

II.
Three main authors of the Portuguese Modernism:

Fernando Pessoa: the poetic of fake
Mário de Sá-Carneiro: between Me and the Other
Almada Negreiros: from futurism to surrealism