Portuguese Culture

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012195
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Classes are based in selected texts from various periods and literary genres – from  the thirteenth century through twenty first century and comprising historiographic and didactic narrative, essays and poetry. These texts will be historically contextualized and critically discussed as representations of a certain idea of nationality.

Learning Outcomes

Regarding content and critical thinking, students should be able to:

a) understand the importance of myth in the construction of national identity;

b) question the correspondence between this assumed nation and people mirror and its successive historical causes.

Regarding skills, students should

a) have acquired (or consolidated) concepts and tools of analysis relevant to studies of culture reflection and be able to use them productively;

b) have developed skills of critical reading of primary and secondary sources.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

This course focuses on the birth and evolution of Portuguese mythography. The main structuring myths of national identity representation, as historical constructions, will be critically addressed and put into perspective. These myths  will be studied based on different types of texts (historiography, essays, literature, art) in a diacronic line (from its foundation to the present), and focused on its origin, fixing / institutionalization, rewritings and their ideological implications.

The topics and operating concepts to be discussed include: reality, representation, truth, fiction, history, myth, past, memory, culture, identity, people, tradition, state, nation.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria do Rosário Prata Ferreira dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Other: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Dias, J. (2004). O essencial sobre os elementos fundamentais da cultura portuguesa. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda.

Hall, S. (2005). A Identidade Cultural na Pós-Modernidade. Rio de Janeiro: DP&A.

Geary, P. J. (2008). O Mito das Nações: A Invenção do Nacionalismo. Lisboa: Gradiva.

Lourenço, E. (2001).  O labirinto da saudade: psicanálise mítica do destino português. Lisboa: Gradiva.

Moura, V. G. (2005). Lusitana praia: ensaios e anotações. Porto: Asa.

Saraiva, António José (1995). Para a história da cultura em Portugal. Lisboa: Gradiva. 2 vols.

Real, M. (2011). Introdução à cultura portuguesa: séculos XIII e XIX. Lisboa: Planeta.