Contemporary Portuguese Literature

Code:

EPL027

Acronym:

LPCONT

Instance: 2015/2016 - 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	8	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
			2
EPL	17	Study Plan	3	-	6	-
LLC	14	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2013_2014	2	-	6	-
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To know and discuss the writings of pivotal writers in Portuguese poetry after Modernism; identify and characterise some of the landmark moments in the evolution of contemporary Portuguese literature, considering historical, literary, cultural and aesthetic conditions.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students will be able to recognise the general evolution of 20th century poetry from the 1940s onwards; to apply basic notions of poetics, literary history and aesthetics; to produce, at analysis and comment level, a critical and reasoned discourse, on the works and themes included in the course program.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable.

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 Andresen: the names and the things 3. António Ramos Rosa and the poetic word 4. Avantgarde revisited 4.1 Poetry and experimentalism in the 1960s 4.2 Herberto Helder or "the continuous poem"; hybridism in "Os Passos em Volta".

Fields of work: 1. Aesthetic Avantgard 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; Avantgardism as a “style” (Arthur Danto); traces of the poetry of the 60s; a new discursive consciousness; body and 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, 1930-; Os^passos em volta
Helder, Herberto, 1930-; Ofício cantante. ISBN: 978-972-37-1396-1

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching methods include lectures and practical classes, these ones oriented to the analysis and review of elements of primary and secondary bibliography. Students have at their disposal various types of work material, accessible on the Documents folder: general and specific bibliographies, several materials designed to provide a more directed study and to support debate the practical classes. In class, several types of digital material (power point, film clips, digitized texts) are used.

 

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	30,00
Estudo autónomo	76,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, except when 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