Literature and Modernity

Year
1
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
02025977
Subject Area
Literature
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
10.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Good knowledge in theory and literary periodization is recommended.

Teaching Methods

Classes will function in the form of seminar sessions (textual analysis and discussion), with the active and permanent participation of the students.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this curricular unit, which will use a comparative perspective, the student will have acquired a critical view on the concepts of the modern and modernity, know the main works and authors from the period in question and understand the fundamental characteristics of modern literature, especially its rupture in regard to aesthetics movements of previous periods.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The concepts of the modern and modernity.

2. The poetic expression of Modernity: Baudelaire, Symbolism, Fin-de-Siècle, Hispanic Modernism.

3. The renovation of narrative discourse: from Flaubert to the “literature of the self”.

4. Literary and Artistic Avantgard: Cubism, Futurism, Imagism, Expressionism, Surrealism.

5. The poetics of Portuguese Modernism.

6. Some key-concepts of modern art: depersonalization, degeneracy, grotesque, fragment, alterity, dehumanization.

N.B. The syllabus and bibliography may change depending on teaching staff. 

Head Lecturer(s)

António Apolinário Caetano da Silva Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Oral or written presentation of critical commentary on texts and other materials provided by the teacher: 30.0%
Research work: 70.0%

Bibliography

Calinescu, M.(1999). As Cinco Faces da Modernidade (Modernismo, Vanguarda, Decadência, Kitsch, Pós-Modernismo). Lisboa: Vega.

Compagnon, A. (1990). Les cinq paradoxes de la modernité. Paris: Seuil.

Friedrich, H. (1999). Structure de la poésie moderne. Paris: Le Livre de Poche.

Kolocotroni, V., Goldman, J., & Taxidou, O. (2013). Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Levenson, M. (2011). Modernism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Lourenço, A. A. (2005). Eça de Queirós e o Naturalismo na Península Ibérica. Coimbra: Mar da Palavra.

Lourenço, A. A. (2009). Fernando Pessoa. Lisboa: Edições 70.

Martins, F. C. M. (2008). Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo português. Lisboa: Caminho.

Paz, O. (1974). Los hijos del limo: del romanticismo a la vanguardia. Barcelona: Seix Barral.