Studies on Fernando Pessoa

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012243
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

– Lectures with introduce the topics and provide a structure to the subsequent discussion on the major aspects of the course and to the analysis of key texts.

- This work continues outside of classes, through meetings during office hours and by email (suggestion of new topics, discussion of approaches, guidance on research and bibliography).

– Students present individual research papers or take an exam, also followed by discussion with the teacher.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be introduced to the conditions of production of the work of Fernando Pessoa – seen not as a masterly and predictable author, but as a problematic creative genius – and encouraged to read and interpret the texts by his different heteronyms.

They will acquire the methodological tools needed to engage critically with the literary creation of this author.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the singularity of Fernando Pessoa

1.1. Aesthetic and literary context

1.2. Presence and trajectory of Pessoa

1.3. The editorial contingencies of his work. The critical reception of Pessoa; the interdependence of Pessoa’s reception and the development of 20th century Portuguese poetry

2. The poetics of Fernando Pessoa

2.1. The post-Baudelairean search for the New

2.2. Aesthetic programs according to their historicity (Paulism, Intersectionism, Sensationism…)

2.3. Poetic feigning and its multiple implications

2.4. The axial value of irony and the purpose of human self-consciousness

2.5. The dramatic vector in the scale of lyric poetry

3. The overdetermined and multifunctional phenomenon of heteronymy: “drama in people” and dramapoem

3.1. Decentering of the self, radicalization of irony and discursive fragmentation

3.2. Heteronymy as thinking device and as textual genre program

3.3. The role of heteronymic creations in the dynamics of the literary field of the time

Head Lecturer(s)

António Apolinário Caetano da Silva Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

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

Bibliography

Blanco, J. (2008). Pessoana. Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim.
F. Cabral Martins (Ed.) (2008). Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo Português. Lisboa: Caminho.
Bréchon, R. (1996). Estranho Estrangeiro. Lisboa: Quetzal Ed.
Lourenço, E. (1986). Fernando, Rei da nossa Baviera. Lisboa: INCM.
Idem (2000). Pessoa Revisitado. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Coelho, J. do P. (1987). Diversidade e Unidade em Fernando Pessoa. Lisboa: Verbo.
Seabra, J. A. (1988). Fernando Pessoa ou o Poetodrama. Lisboa: INCM.
Idem (1996). O Coração do Texto. Lisboa: Ed. Cosmos.
Garcia, J. M. (1985). Fernando Pessoa: «coração despedaçado». Ponta Delgada: Univ. Açores.
Quadros, A. (1984). Fernando Pessoa – Vida, Personalidade e Génio. Lisboa: Dom Quixote.
Centeno, Y. K. (2004). Fernando Pessoa: Magia e Fantasia. Lisboa: ASA.
Rocha, A. (2012). Fernando Pessoa e o Quinto Império. Porto: UC Editora.