Contemporary Portuguese Literature

Code:

EPL027

Acronym:

LPCONT

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Portuguese Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	2	Study Plan-Lang.Sciences:Port.Second Language	1	-	6	-
			2
EPL	28	Study Plan	3	-	6	-
LLC	15	Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/English	2	-	6	-
			3
		Joint Language Plan-Portuguese/Classical Languages	2	-	6	-
			3
		Single Language Plan-Spanish	3	-	6	-
		Portuguese and Foreign Lauguage(German)	2	-	6	-
			3
		Portuguese and Foreign Lauguage (Spanish)	2	-	6	-
			3
		Portuguese and Foreign Lauguage (French)	2	-	6	-
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Know and discuss the writings of pivotal writers in Portuguese poetry panorama after Modernism; identify and characterise some of the landmark moments in the evolution of contemporary Portuguese literature, bearing in mind the historical-literary, cultural and aesthetic factors; recognise the general evolution of 20th century poetry from the 1940s onwards; strengthen and apply the basic notions of poetry, literary history and aesthetics; Produce, at analysis and comment level, a critical and reasoned discourse, on the works and discussions included in the course programme.

Program

1. Poetry and revolution
1.1 Carlos de Oliveira and Neo-Realism
1.2 Mário Cesariny and the Surrealist revolution

2. Innovation and lyrical tradition
2.1 Jorge de Sena: poetry and testimony
2.2 Eugénio de Andrade: subjectivity and the experience of the body
2.3 Sophia: the names and the things

3. António Ramos Rosa and the poetic word

4. Vanguard revisited
4.1 Poetry and experimentalism in the 1960s
4.2 Herberto Helder or the continuous poem

Fields of work:
1. Aesthetic vanguard and political vanguard; literature and the polymorphism of the concepts of real and of realism; Marxism and Realism (connections and tensions); the Surrealist poetry and the achievement of new dimensions of subjectivity and of the real; relations between ethics and aesthetics.
2. Modernity, Modernism, tradition and innovation; subjectivity and impersonality, ethical and aesthetic commitment; the body-soul vs. the dichotomy body/soul; poetry, accuracy, meaning and reference.
3. Poetry and knowledge; the concept of poetic language; metaphor and meaning;
4. Vanguardism as an aesthetic reference or the impossibility of being repeated; Vanguardism as a “style” (Danto); traces of the poetry of the 60s; a new discursive consciousness; the “body engine” and the renovation of poetic writing.

Mandatory literature

OLIVEIRA, Carlos ; Trabalho Poético, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2003
VASCONCELOS, Mário Cesariny; Pena Capital, 2ª ed., Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 1999
ANDRADE, Eugénio; Antologia Breve, 7ª ed., rev. e aumentada, Porto, Fundação Eugénio de Andrade,, 1999
HELDER, Herberto; Ou o Poema Contínuo – Súmula, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2004

Teaching methods and learning activities

Oriented analysis and comments on literary texts, theory texts and critical texts; theory explanation and discussion.

keywords

Humanities > Literature > European literature > Romance literatures > Portuguese literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00
	Trabalho escrito	31,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	73
	Total:	73,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law

Calculation formula of final grade

Reading report - 30%; exam - 70%. Final grade: weighted average of the assessment components.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations