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Modern Portuguese Literature

Modern Portuguese Literature

Code	16929
Year	3
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	TP(60H)
Scientific area	Literaturas
Entry requirements	--Be fluent in Portuguese Language.
Learning outcomes	1. Distinguish the concepts of modernity and modernism; 2. Develop critical thinking in relation to the literary institution; 3. Characterize the literary trends embraced by modernity and by Portuguese modernism; 4. Identify the main writers and aggregators magazines of Portuguese modernism; 5. Analyze relevant literary texts of the Portuguese modernity and modernism.
Syllabus	1. Modernity: concept and problematisation of the distinction 'classic' and 'modern'. 2. Cesario Verde's poetry: modernity marks and ideological coordinates. Analysis of poems. 3. Portuguese symbolism: characterization; sources; leading figures and texts; importance of symbolism in the Portuguese literary scene; 3.1. Relief of the Raul Brandão’s novel to the modern Portuguese narrative. Selected excerpts analysis of the «Os Pobres». 3.2. The poetry of Pessanha: «Clepsidra». Structure of the work. Title’s symbology. Analysis of poems. Importance to the Orphic movement. 4. First Portuguese Modernism: continuities and rupture in relation to Symbolism. Periodization and aesthetic-ideological characterization. «Orpheus»: tutelary figures and -isms sustained. 4.1. Pessoa orthonymous and heteronym. Analysis of poems. 5. Second Portuguese Modernism: the generation of «Presença». Periodization and aesthetic and ideological trends. Authors of reference. 5.1. Régio's poetry. Analysis of poems.
Main Bibliography	BAUDELAIRE, C. (2004), O Pintor da Vida Moderna, posfácio de T. Cruz, Lisboa, Vega. BRANDÃO, R. (1984), Os Pobres, org. Vítor Viçoso, Mem Martins, Editorial Comunicação. COELHO, J. do P. (1998), Diversidade e Unidade em Fernando Pessoa, Lisboa, Verbo. LISBOA, E., (1984). O segundo modernismo em Portugal, Lisboa, ICLP. LOPES, Ó. e MARINHO, Mª de F. (ed.) (2004), História da Literatura Portuguesa, vol. 6, Do Simbolismo ao Modernismo, Lisboa, Alfa. PESSANHA, C., Clepsydra (1995), ed. crítica P. Franchetti, Lisboa, Relógio d’Água. PESSOA, F. (2007), Ficções do Interlúdio. Poemas Publicados em Vida, ed. de F. Cabral Martins, Lisboa, Assírio e Alvim. PESSOA, F. (1997), Mensagem, ed. D. Mourão-Ferreira, Lisboa, Ática. RÉGIO, J. (2005), Cântico Negro, ed. de L. Adriano Carlos e valter hugo mãe, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Quasi. VERDE, C. (2006), Cânticos do Realismo e Outros Poemas. 32 Cartas. Textos de Fialho de Almeida e Fernando Pessoa, org. T. Sobral Cunha, Lisboa, Relógio d’Água.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	The assessment criteria were discussed and establised in the firt class of the semester: - First test: 31th October (8 values); - Second test: 12th December (8 values); The syllabus of the first test is not repeated in the second test. In the exams, of course, all syllabus can be subejct of evaluation. All this is explained to stiudents inthe first class of the semester. attendance and pertinent participation in classes along the semester: 2 values maximum Lecture and oral presentation of a text of the Modern Portuguese Literature: 2 values. 25th November. The acess to exams is only possible with 6 values mimimum along the semester.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.