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Portuguese Literature 4

Objectives

a) Familiarise students with some works of 20th and 21st century Portuguese literature;
b) To analyse how the selected texts upset the most conventional understandings of the way we inhabit the world, the house, especially with regard to the words that gravitate in its lexical field: build, live, origin, place, live together.
c) Acquire the ability to propose new readings based on the works included in the programme.

General characterization

Code

01109501

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Golgona Luminita Anghel

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • Franco Alexandre, António, “As Moradas (1 a 3)” in Poemas, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 1996, pp. 275-367.
  • Helder, Herberto, “Prefácio”, in Poemas Completos, Lisboa, Porto Editora, 2014, pp. 9-13.
  • ________________, “Lugar lugares”, in Os Passos em Volta (1963), Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2015, pp. 49-57.
  • ________________, Photomaton & Vox (1979), Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2006.
  • Lopes, Adília, Estar em casa, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2018.
  • Neto Jorge, Luiza, “As Casas” in Poesia, 2ª edição, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2001, pp. 97-106.
  • Oliveira, Carlos de, Casa na Duna (1943), Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2004.
  • Pires Cabral, Rui, Morada, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2015.
  • Velho da Costa, Maria, Casas Pardas, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2013.

Teaching method

Reading theoretical texts and literary texts, tracing lines of conceptualisation that build theories. Analysing and discussing theses, constructing problems.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Participation in class (10%), Preparation of a written assignment (45%), Written Test(45%)

Subject matter

We propose a transversal reading of the literary object, as a way of experiencing it as a laboratory for a question that exceeds it and yet can only be apprehended within it: how to live together.


Topics:


1. Community and ‘idiorhythmy’ (Barthes);
2. Luiza Neto Jorge: ‘the house/ useless dwelling place/ of those who live’;
3. Carlos de Oliveira, ‘destroyed house’; ‘ghost house’; ‘model house: from Finisterre to Pouca terra’;
4. Maria Velho da Costa, ‘houses, names and pronouns’; ‘Painting yourself with the colours of the world’; ‘the imagined hypothesis of a familiar space’; ‘inhabiting/ writing a female book, all inside’;
5. Herberto Helder, ‘Let's talk about houses’; ‘All places are abroad’; ‘What remains in the dwelling?’;
6. Adília Lopes, ‘self-construction and photo-assembly’; ‘The abyss inside the house’;
7. António Franco Alexandre, ‘the breath of some houses, air passages, thin clouds’;
8. Rui Pires Cabral, ‘an atopic dwelling’.