History of Portuguese Literature

Code:

LEI009

Acronym:

HLP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Portuguese Literature

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

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

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEI	49	Study plan	1	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Through a combinatory process of chronological and typological criteria, one aims to provide students with a steady knowledge of influent texts and voices of Portuguese literary history either fictional or poetical ones, and to familiarize them with categories and conceptual tools necessary to their study. Furthermore, one aims to improve the students literary skills.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semestre, the students are expected to have a critical and grounded understanding of the selected texts, as well as of their contexts of production and reception. They are also expected to master literary tools applied to the reading of  a set of works  of different types and aesthetics, which occupies an important place in Portuguese Literary History.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. INTRODUTION: literature histories, conventional periodological, literary schools and movements.

2.XVIth CENTURY
2.1.  At the heart of the canon
Luís Vaz de Camões: study of the author´s epical and lyrical poetry according to contemporary criticism

3. XIXth CENTURY
3.1. Romanticism
3.1.1. The emergence of Romanticism in Portugal: Almeida Garrett, D. Branca
3.2. Historical novel: Alexandre Herculano, Eurico, o Presbítero
3.3.  Realism-Naturalism
3.4. Eça de Queirós, “Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loira”
3.5. The poetry of the city: Cesário Verde, O sentimento de um Ocidental

4. XXth and XXIth CENTURIES
4.1. The Orpheu generation: iconic authors and programmatic texts
4.1.1. Fernando Pessoa, O Livro do Desassossego
4.2. The loss of the Empire: new fictional paths in Portuguese Literature - António Lobo Antunes, As Naus
4.3. Womens´s voices in poetry and the rewriting of tradition: Ana Luísa Amaral, Minha Senhora de Quê
4.4.  Portuguese Literature and world literature:  Gonçalo M. Tavares, Um Homem, Klaus Klump

Mandatory literature

Amaral, Ana Luísa; Minha Senhora de Quê (1990), Quetzal, 1999
Antunes, António Lobo; As Naus, Leya. ISBN: 978-972-20-5995-4
Camões, Luís Vaz; Os Lusíadas
Queirós, Eça de; Contos (1902)
Pessoa, Fernando; Livro do Desassossego, Assírio & Alvim, 2018. ISBN: 978-972-0-78330-1
Sá-Carneiro, Mário de ; A Confissão de Lúcio. ISBN: 972-37-0492-7
Tavares, Gonçalo M.; Um Homem, Klaus Klump, Caminho, 2003
Verde, Cesário; O sentimento dum ocidental , Campo das Letras, 2005
Garrett, Almeida; D. Branca ou a Conquista do Algarve

Complementary Bibliography

Arnaut, Ana Paula; António Lobo Antunes, Edições 70, 2009
Buescu, Helena Carvalhão; Dicionário do romantismo literário português. ISBN: 972-21-1101-9
Castro, Francisco Lyon de (ed.); História da Literatura Portuguesa, 7 vols, Publicações Alfa, 2001
Lopes, Óscar; História da Literatura Portuguesa, 17ª ed. corr. e atualizada, Porto Editora, 2001
Marinho, Maria de Fátima ; Um Poço sem Fundo – Novas Reflexões sobre Literatura e História, Campo das Letras, 2005
Pizarro, Jerónimo; Ler Pessoa, Tinta da China, 2018
Silva, Vítor Manuel Aguiar; Camões: labirintos e fascínios, Cotovia, 1994
Silva, Vítor Aguiar ; Dicionário de Luís de Camões, Caminho, 2011. ISBN: 978 9722121460

Comments from the literature

1.At the beginning of the semester, guidance will be given to students regarding the editions to purchase/consult with regard to the works of Camões and Almeida Garrett;
2.Online sites that provide some of the texts (or parts) studied will also be indicated;
3.Some theoretical-critical bibliography texts will be made available to students in the Docs folder. from UC.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository theoretical classes on the programme contents and practical classes, with literary reviews and comments and critical texts on the topics taught in theory classes, which can take the form of discussions or work done individually or in groups.

Tutorials, in which work done by students will be constantly supervised on a personal basis, provided that the number of students enrolled allows this type of supervision.

keywords

Humanities
Humanities > History
Humanities > 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)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Mandatory attendance of at least 75% of estimated classes, according to Assessment Regulations, Article 9.

Calculation formula of final grade

Written essay (30%) with final exam (70%).

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

According to the Assessment Regulations.