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Objectives

Learning in Portuguese Literature 2 should enable students to combine comprehensive knowledge of modern Portuguese literary history with attention to themes, motifs and lines of meaning that allow for the approximation of texts with distant origins and contexts. The ability to identify and research recurring motifs is important for establishing relationships within the discontinuity of works and the heterogeneity of authorial projects. An ability to formulate new problems arising from the transversal reading of texts based on their shared elements will, in the long term, be the desired effect, countering the tendency to reproduce a teleological sequence of programmatic principles translated into aesthetic “isms”.

General characterization

Code

711131052

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Maria Alexandra Moreira de Jesus Fieis e Melo

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • Feijó, António, Figueiredo, João, Tamen, Miguel (eds.), «O Cânone», Lisboa, Tinta da China, 2020.
  • Garrett, Almeida, «Viagens na Minha Terra». Porto, Edições Caixotim, 2004.
  • Jorge, Luiza Neto, «Poesia». Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2023.
  • Oliveira, Carlos de, «Finisterra - Paisagem e Povoamento», Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2021.
  • O'Neill, Alexandre, «Poesias Completas & Dispersos». Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2022.
  • Queirós, Eça de, «A Ilustre Casa de Ramires». Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 2004.
  • Verde, Cesário, «Obra Completa». Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 2010.

Teaching method

The basic teaching methodology is that of lessons that guide the critical gesture of bringing distant texts together. The procedure is carried out through the reading of specific passages, titles, paratexts, persistent metaphors and tropes, allusions or unintentional resonances, which highlight the confrontation of modern Portuguese literature with thematic or compositional traditions that communicate between apparently unrelated works. Students are given part of the class time to raise questions and discuss or analyze the guidance provided in each lesson.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - An attendance test/written test in the classroom midway through the semester(40%), An individual and/or group written assignment at the end of the semester(40%), Assessment of the student's attendance and participation in the series of classes that make up the semester (20%)

Subject matter

1. Work and the theme of work in 19th and 20th century fiction (a survey): from «Travels in My Homeland» (1846), by Almeida Garrett, to «Finisterra» (1978), by Carlos de Oliveira.
2. Criticism of national literature as a literary construct: the case of «A Ilustre Casa de Ramires» (1900), by Eça de Queirós, and its critical heritage in the 20th century.
3. Making and unmaking oneself in modern Portuguese poetry: readings of subjectivity in poems by Cesário Verde, Alexandre O'Neill and Luiza Neto Jorge.