Texts of Literatures in the Portuguese language II

Code:

LEI015

Acronym:

TLLP_II

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Portuguese Literature

Instance: 2024/2025 - 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	35	Study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: English could be used when necessary; students are allowed to write the final essay in other languages (English, French, Spanish or Italian)

Objectives

The main goal is to provide students with a minimum knowledge about Brazilian and African literatures in Portuguese, based on important texts from the respective systems in which the topic of the travel is deciding. Therefore, students should be able to read literary texts by integrating them in the respective context and applying basic notions of poetics, narratology and literary history. On the other hand, students should be able to problematize the notion of travel and to produce a critical discourse about the points of the syllabus.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the course, the student should be able to formulate, supported in the literature, a personal discourse about the topics covered.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Meanings of travel: encounter, confrontation, understanding

1. From the other to the same

          1.1. Pero Vaz de Caminha’s letter on the finding of Brazil

          1.2. Serafim Ponte Grande, by Oswald de Andrade

2. Travel and flight: Morte e vida severina, by João Cabral de Melo Neto
3. Typologies of travel in the twentieth century Brazilian short story

          3.1. Clarice Lispector

          3.2. Lygia Fagundes Telles

4. Up this river: from Cadornega to Luandino Vieira
5. From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, from history to stories

          5.1. O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo, by Germano Almeida

          5.2. Ventos do apocalipse, by Paulina Chiziane

          5.3. O outro pé da sereia, by Mia Couto

Mandatory literature

José Manuel Garcia; O descobrimento do Brasil nos textos de 1500 a 1571
Oswald de Andrade; Serafim Ponte Grande. ISBN: 85-250-0858-3
João Cabral de Melo Neto; Poesia completa
Lispector, Clarice; Legião Estrangeira. ISBN: 85-325-0945-2
Telles, Lygia Fagundes; Os contos, Companhia das Letras, 2018
Cadornega, António de Oliveira de; História geral das guerras angolanas
Vieira, José Luandino; De rios velhos e guerrilheiros: 1. O livros dos rios, Caminho, 2007
Almeida, Germano; O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo. ISBN: 972-21-0575-2
Chiziane, Paulina; Ventos do apocalipse. ISBN: 972-21-1262-7
Couto, MIa; O outro pé da sereia. ISBN: 972-21-1795-5

Comments from the literature

A more detailed reading list can be found in course "Documents". The basic bibliography is also available in that section.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical explanation of the syllabus, commentary and analysis of text. Pupil participation is encouraged. Classes are theoretical, theoretical-practical and practical, also having sessions tutorials.

The evaluation has three components with different weights: A) Writing evaluation (two tests) - 50%, B) Two small works  - 30% C) Work in class - 20%.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Teste	50,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	120,00
Frequência das aulas	42,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

• Two Written tests — 50% (a score of 10 out of 20)
•Two small papers, to be indicated in class — 30% (a score of 6 out of 20)
• Classroom work — 20% (a score of 4 out of 20)

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to course regulations and other applicable rules.

Classification improvement

Only of "exams" component