Contemporary Portuguese Literature

Code:

EPL027

Acronym:

LPCONT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Portuguese Language Literature

Instance: 2021/2022 - 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	1	CL - Study Plan	1	-	6	-
			2
EP	17	EP - Study Plan	3	-	6	-
LLC	29	LLC - Monodisciplinary Study Plan	2	-	6	-
			3
		LLC - Bidisciplinar Study Plan (Portuguese Studies)	2	-	6	-
			3

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To study Portuguese Literature after the Modernism, highlighting Surrealism and post 80s authors.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be able to recognise the general evolution of 20th-century poetry from the 1940s onwards; to apply basic notions of poetics and narratology, of 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

Neo-realism 
2. Surrealism in Portugal

•   Mario Cesariny de Vasconcelos Works
•   Nobilíssima Visão
    
•   Manual de Prestidigitação

3. José Cardoso Pires, O Delfim
4. Eugénio de Andrade, Memória Doutro Rio
5. Herberto Helder

•   Lugar Lugares (Os passos em Volta)
  
•   Some poems of A Colher na Boca e Eletronicolírica

6. Post-modern historiographic metafiction

•       José Saramago, História do cerco de Lisboa

7. Hélia Correia, Um Bailarino na Batalha

 

Mandatory literature

OLIVEIRA, Carlos ; Trabalho Poético, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2003
VASCONCELOS, Mário Cesariny; Pena Capital, 2ª ed., Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 1999
Helder, Herberto, 1930-; Os^passos em volta
Helder, Herberto, 1930-; Ofício cantante. ISBN: 978-972-37-1396-1
Pires, José Cardoso, 1925-1998; Jogos de azar

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. 

 

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	90,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	106,00
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

 exam - 70%; participation - 10%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations

Observations

Due to the eLearning process adopted since March 16, the final exam (70% of the total evaluation) will take place online.