17th and 18th Century Women's Literature

Code:

MELCI037

Acronym:

LFEM

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MELCI	2	Rom. and Class. Studies - Portuguese Literature	1	-	6	2	2
		Rom. and Class. Studies - Iberian Cultures	1	-	6	2	2
		Rom. and Class. Studies - Classical Literature	1	-	6	2	2

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course unit is designed for students to gain further and structured knowledge of female literary writing from the late 16th to the last quarter of the 18th century in Portugal. This will necessarily require the revision of annals of the History of Portuguese Literature and to ponder over its cannon. The aim is for students to learn about the most representative works by female writers during these centuries, the context in which they wrote and their reading habits, be it in profane or holy places. By the end of the semester, students should be able to have a structured vision of the dominating literary forms in women’s literature and of its dominant themes, as well as of the dialogue established with other acclaimed authors of world literature.

Program

1 – Women’s literature in Portugal: between the voice and the silence
1.1 – Emergency and roots
1.2 – Historical context and sociological universe
1.3 – From the manuscript to printed work. Path and hostility.

2. – Natur, context and role of women’s writing in Portugal from the late 16th to the 18th century: between silk and course garments

2.1 – Courtly literature, cloister literature
2.2 – Themes and genres: a prism of many faces

3 – Authors and auctoritas: between authority and obedience
3.1 – Maria de S. José
3.2 – Maria de Mesquita Pimentel
3.3 – Violante do Céu
3.2 – Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda
3.3 – Antónia Margarida de Castelo-Branco
3.4 – Madalena da Glória
3.5 – Maria do Céu
3.6 – Marquesa de Alorna

Mandatory literature

MORUJÃO, Isabel; Por Trás da Grade: Poesia Conventual Feminina em Portugal. Sécs. XVII-XVIII, FLUP, 2005
POUTRIN, Isabelle; Le voile et la plume. Autobiographie et sainteté féminine dans l'Espagne moderne, Madrid, Casa de Velásquez, 1995
CASTRO, Aníbal Pinto de; Retórica e Teorização literária em Portugal (...), Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 2008
CALVI, Giulia; La mujer barroca, Alianza Editorial, 1995
AA.VV; Las mujeres escritoras en la historia de la literatura española (coord. de Lucía Montejo Gurruchaga e Nieves Baranda Leturio, Ediciones U.N.E.D., 2002
ARIÈS, Philippe e DUBY, Georges (Dir.); História da Vida privada do renascimento ao Século das Luzes, Afrontamento, 1990
AA.VV; Women in reformation and Counter- Reformation Europe. Private and Public Worlds, Indiana University Press, 1989
DUBY, Georges; Histoire des femmes. XVIe - XVIIIe siècles, Plon, 1991
MARQUILHAS, Rita; A Faculdade das Letras: leitura e escrita em Portugal no séc. XVII, Imprensa Nacional, 2000
FERNANDES, Mª Lurdes Correia; Espelhos, Cartas, Guias. casamento e espiritualidade na Península Ibérica (1450-1700), Instituto Cultura Portuguesa - FLUP, 1995
BARBEITO CARNEIRO, María Isabel; Mujeres y Literatura del siglo de Oro (Espacios profanos y conventuales), Ediciones del Orto, 2006
MURIEL, Josefina; Cultura Femenina NovoHispana, Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, 1994
AA.VV.; Las sabias mujeres: educación, saber y autoría (siglos III-XVII), edición de María del Mar Graña Cid, Asociación Cultural Al-Mudayna, 1994
BARANDA LETURIO, Nieves ; «"Por ser de mano femenil la rima": De la mujer escritora a sus lectores», in Lisants et Lecteurs en Espagne - XVe-XIXe siècle, Université Michel de Montaigne, 1999
MICHAELIS, Carolina; A Infanta D. Maria de Portugal (1521-1577) e as suas damas, Biblioteca Nacional, 1994
MOREIRA, Maria Micaela Dias Pereira Ramon; A novela alegórica em Português dos Sécs. XVII e XVIII. O belo ao serviço do bem, Universidade do Minho, 2006
LOPES, Mª Antónia ; Mulheres, Espaço e Sociabilidade. A transformação dos papéis femininos em Portugal à luz de fontes literárias, Livros Horizonte, 1989
MORUJÃO, Isabel; Bibliografia Monástica Feminina, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 1995
Cartas de Lília e Tirse (1771-1777), Lisboa, Ed. Colibri - Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna, 2007
AA.VV.; Mulher. Espírito e Norma, Associação dos Amigos do Mosteiro de S. Cristóvão de Lafões, 2009
A cura di Anabela Galhardo do Couto; Gli Abiti Neri. Letteratura Femminile del Barocco Portoghese, Il Filo, Roma, 2007
Ana Hatherly; A Preciosa de Soror Maria do Céu, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 1990

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical presentation of program contents, text analysis, commentaries, debate.

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	30,00
	Trabalho escrito	107,00		2011-01-15
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	25	2011-01-15
	Total:	25,00

Eligibility for exams

Students must attend at least 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Research paper – 100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.