Portuguese Literature from the Baroque to Neoclassicism

Code:

EPL028

Acronym:

LPBNEO

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

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

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	0	Study Plan-Lang.Sciences:Port.Second Language	1	-	6	-
			2
EPL	16	Study Plan	2	-	6	-
LLC	6	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

1. Contact with and discuss some of the most significant literary works of the Baroque and Neoclassical periods in Portugal;
2. Identify and characterise the theory basics and aesthetic-literary practices developed throughout the 16th and 17th centuries;
3. Properly apply the basic theory instruments to the review of lyrical and narrative literary texts;
4. Produce, at analysis and comment level, a critical and reasoned discourse.

Program

1. The Baroque aesthetics and the concepts of “sharpness” and “talent”: the “codes” and practices.

1.1. Obras Métricas (1665), by D. Francisco Manuel de Melo.
1.2. A Fénix Renascida and Postilhão de Apolo.
1.3. António Vieira and the sacred rhetoric.


2. The Neo-Classical reaction and the theory of “good taste”.

2.1. Luís António Verney and “Verdadeiro Método de Estudar” (1746)
2.2. The “Arcadian” theorisation and practice.
2.2.1. Correia Garção, António Dinis da Cruz e Silva, Domingos Reis Quita and Manuel de Figueiredo.

Mandatory literature

Poesia maneirista (apres. crítica e notas de Isabel Almeida, Ed. Comunicação, 1998
MARQUES, João Francisco; A Parenética portuguesa e a Restauração (1640-1668), INIC, 1989
VISTARINI, António Bernat; Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666). Textos y contextos del Barroco peninsular, Palma, 1992
SILVA, Vítor Manuel de Aguiar; Escavações de arqueologia literária II: a Grinalda de Apolo, cancioneiro inédito de Cristóvão Alão de Morais, Diacrítica, nº 10 (1995), pp. 563-569, 1995
MENDES, Margarida Vieira; A oratória barroca de Vieira, Caminho, 1989
AA.VV; Vieira Escritor , Cosmos, 1997
SILVA, Vítor Manuel de Aguiar; Camões: labirintos e fascínios, Cotovia, 1994
VIEIRA, António; Sermões, Lello & Irmão, s/d
AA.VV; estudos introdutórios a Obras Métricas de D. Francisco Manuel de Melo , IPLB, 2006
MARAVALL José António; La Cultura del Barroco, Arial, 1983
SILVA, Vítor Manuel de Aguiar; Maneirismo e Barroco na Poesia Lírica Portuguesa, Centro de Estudos Românicos, 1975
Poetas do período Barroco (int. e org. de Maria Lucília Gonçalves Pires, Duarte Reis, 2003
VERNEY, Luís António; Cartas sobre Retórica e Poética (int. de M. Lucília Gonçalves Pires), , Presença, 1991
GARÇÃO, P. A. Correia; Obras completas , Sá da Costa, 1982-1983
MELO, D. Francisco Manuel de (ed. coordenada por Maria Lucília Gonçalves Pires e José Adriano de Freitas Carvalho; Obras Métricas , IPLB, 2006
VIEIRA, António; Obras completas , Sá da Costa, 1945-1946
EGIDO, Aurora; De la mano di Artemia. Literatura, emblemática, Mnemotecnia y arte en el siglo de Oro,, José J. de Olañeta, editor y Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2004
PIRES, Maria Lucília Gonçalves; Xadrez de palavras. Estudos de literatura barroca, Cosmos, 1996
CASTRO, Aníbal Pinto de; Retórica e Teorização Literária em Portugal do Humanismo ao Neoclassicismo,, Imprensa da universidade, 1973
CASTRO, Aníbal Pinto de; Os códigos poéticos em Portugal do Renascimento ao Barroco. Seus fundamentos. Seus conteúdos. Sua evolução., Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, 31 (1985), pp 505-531, 1985
CASTRO, Aníbal Pinto de; La teoria poética e la formazione letteraria dei codici del Barroco portoghese», Italienisch-europaisch Kulturbeziehungen im Zeitalter des Barok, pp. 317-329, Stauffenburg Verlag, 1991

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository theoretical classes on programme contents, text analysis, individual support to students to develop their writing and research skills

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

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 or research assignment - 30%; exam - 70%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations