Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The theoretical approach carried out in class will be articulated with textual analysis. Thus the participation of students will be systematically requested either through their participation in the seminar or with regard to the presentation of written essays.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester students should be able to problematize issues related to the aesthetical dynamics studied during the semester. It is also expected that students develop interpretive and argumentative skills.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Romanticism: the emergence of an inaugural poetics

1.1. New publics, new genres, new languages

2. Literature and representation of reality: the 19^th century manners novel

3. Poetics(s) of Modernism

4. Literature, society and ideology: Neo-Realism

5. Poetics(s) of Post-Moderism.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos António Alves dos Reis

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Written assignments (60%), participation in seminar activities (30%), attendance (10%): 100.0%

Bibliography

ARNAUT, Ana Paula (2002). Post-Modernismo no romance português contemporâneo. Coimbra: Almedina.

CALINESCU, Matei (2000). As cinco faces da modernidade. Lisboa: Vega.

COHEN, M.; PRENDERGAST, C. eds. (1995) Spectacles of realism: body, gender, genre. Mineapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press.

FRANÇA, José-Augusto (1993). O Romantismo em Portugal. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.

LOURENÇO, Eduardo (2003) Tempo e Poesia. Lisboa: Gradiva.

HUTCHEON, Linda, Poética do Pós-Modernismo. Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1991.

REIS, Carlos (2005). História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa. Do Neo-Realismo ao Post-Modernismo. Vol. IX. Lisboa: Verbo.

REIS, Carlos (1983). O discurso ideológico do Neo-Realismo português. Coimbra: Almedina.

ROE, Nicholas ed. (2008). Romanticism. An Oxford Guide. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

SANTANA, M. Helena (2007). Literatura e ciência na ficção do século XIX: a narrativa naturalista e pós-naturalista portuguesa, Lisboa: IN-CM.