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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 according to Baudelaire. 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. (1995): Clepsydra. 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.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.