Portuguese Literature from Romanticism to Fin-de-Siècle

Year
0
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
01012358
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

Teaching methods include an expository component, in which the teacher will provide summaries and overviews of the topics, and scheduled presentations by the students, guided and moderated by the teacher. For each edition of the course, a number of works and texts will be chosen as compulsory reading; additional historical-literary and critical bibliography will be used for consultation and discussion.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, students should be familiar with the dominant literary characteristics and developments of historical-literary period between Romanticism and the turn of the 20th century. This includes a knowledge of the major works of the 19th century Portuguese literary canon, as well as their periodiological frames. In addition, students should understand the social and cultural factors that indirectly influenced literary developments and their relation with coeval artistic phenomena, as well as with similar thematic and formal phenomena in other literatures, European in particular. These broad aims will be particularized according to the specific contents of the syllabi designed by different teachers for this course.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Portuguese Romanticism and its literary and ideological relations with the European space. The literary production of the first Romantic generation, particularly that of Almeida Garrett; literature with historical themes in the context of Portuguese Romanticism. The evolution of Romanticism in Portugal: from early Romanticism to the third Romantic generation. Nineteenth-century novel writing after Romanticism, in particular Camilo Castelo Branco. The emergence of Realism and Naturalism; the 70s generation. Affirmation and transformation of Eça de Queirós’s literary production. The literary crisis of Realism and Naturalism; turn of the century “isms”, particularly symbolist aestetics.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Helena Jacinto Santana

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

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

Bibliography

Biblos. Enciclopédia Verbo das Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa. (5 vols.). (1995-2005). Lisboa: Verbo.
Buescu, H. C. (1997). Dicionário do Romantismo Literário Português. Lisboa: Caminho.
Pereira, J. C. S. (2004). História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa. Volume VII: Do Fim-de-século ao Modernismo. 2Lisboa: Verbo.
Reis, C. e Pires, M. da N. (1999). História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa. Volume V: O Romantismo (2ª ed.). Lisboa: Verbo.
Reis, C. (Ed.). (2001) História da Literatura Portuguesa. O Romantismo e o Naturalismo. Lisboa: Alfa.
Ribeiro, M. A. (2000). História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa. Volume VI: Realismo e Naturalismo (2ª ed.). Lisboa: Verbo.
Saraiva, A.J. e Lopes, O. (s/d). História da Literatura Portuguesa (16º ed.). Porto: Porto Editora.