Contemporary Portuguese Literature
Objectives
a) Familiarize students with some works of Portuguese literature from the 20th century;
b) Analyze how the selected texts disturb the more conventional understandings of the walk, especially with regard to the words that gravitate in its lexical field: travel, flânerie, ambulation, dissidence, march, pilgrimage, wandering;
c) Acquire the ability to propose new readings based on the works included in the program.
General characterization
Code
722091081
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Golgona Luminita Anghel
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
N/A
Bibliography
- Llansol, Maria Gabriela, Os pregos na erva (1962), Lisboa, Edições Rolim, 1987.
- Helder, Herberto, Photomaton & Vox (1979), Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2006.
- Helder, Herberto, Os Passos em Volta (1963), Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2015.
- Oliveira, Carlos de, Pequenos burgueses (1948), Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2005.
- Castro, Manuel de, Bonsoir, Madame, Lisboa, Língua Morta, 2013.
- Costa, Maria Velho da, Desescrita, Porto, Afrontamento, 1973.
- Costa, Maria Velho da, Myra, Pinturas de Ilda David, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2008.
Teaching method
Reading theoretical texts and literary texts, drawing from them conceptualization lines that build theories. Analysis and discussion of theses, construction of problems.
Evaluation method
Continuous Assessment - Class participation(20%), Elaboration of a written work of 10 to 15 pages, based on the problems discussed in class(80%)
Subject matter
The Parisian flânerie described by Walter Benjamin is used by Dadaists as an artistic form that is inscribed in real space and time. The flâneur embodies this art of walking as a gesture of deciphering an enigmatic landscape where what matters is not the recognition of signs, but their inaugural encounter. We are interested in studying a collateral aspect that flânerie prophesies: the importance that the march acquires in some literary works of the 20th century. It is important to see how the walk has become contiguous with a way of thinking. We want to understand under what conditions thinking and walking are one and the same thing. We are looking for this: a thought that wanders, that follows the rhythm of a movement. Topics: 1. Manuel de Castro: "boats without a flag"; 2. Carlos de Oliveira: "write on the floor, read in the dust"; 3. Herberto Helder: "the extreme calligraphy of the world"; 4. Maria Velho da Costa: the return; 5. Maria Gabriela Llansol: "The Land out of joint".