Portuguese Literature: Modern and Contemporary Legacy

Objectives

1. To understand aesthetic-literary trends of the 19th and 20th centuries.

1.1. To relate literary movements with the evolution of the awareness of the world.

1.2. To study authors and works which represent the Portuguese literature of these periods.

1.3. To recognise traits of the different movements in texts by different authors.

1.4. To distinguish individual options in the literary expression of different authors.

1.5. To understand literature as a privileged form of human expression and communication.

2. Skills and abilities

2.1. To improve skills in reading literary texts.

2.2. To broaden cultural references and knowledge of the self and the other in their plurality

2.3. To foster a critical awareness towards ideas and texts

2.4. To cooperate, with sound reasoning, in constructing the sense of literary texts.

2.5. To develop the capacity for autonomous research.

Program

The idea of Modernity: History of the concept; fundamental changes in western thought and their consequences.

The contribution to the evolution of modern thought of the principal literary schools and movements of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries (Romanticism, Realism, Vanguards, Modernism and Postmodernism).

Contextual integration of the diverse changes in which our literature evolved.

Study of the works of the most representative authors of each of these movements or schools.

The collective and individual contribution of writers in understanding essential human values and the creation of a new worldview, which will become a legacy for the new generations.

Teaching Methodologies

Classes will combine theory and practice, and the presentation of theoretical content will accompany the study of authors and works. The critical and theoretical texts will be discussed by teacher and students and the literary texts will be analysed and commented on by the students. Students, guided by the teacher, will also be asked to undertake autonomous research, synthesis, discussion, textual analysis and comment, so as to use the knowledge acquired in a critical way.

Bibliography

CALINESCU, As Cinco Faces da Modernidade, Lisboa, Ed. Vega, 1999.

COMPAGNON, Antoine, Les Cinq Paradoxes de la Modernité, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1990.

FOKKEMA, Dowe W., História Literária. Modernismo e Pós-modernismo (trad. De Abel Barros Baptista), Lisboa, Veja Univ

GUIMARÃES, Fernando, Simbolismo, Modernismo e Vanguardas, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1982.

MARINHO, Maria de Fátima, A Poesia Portuguesa nos Meados do Século XX. Rupturas e Continuidades, Lisboa, Caminho, 1989.

MARTINHO, Fernando J. B., Pessoa e a Moderna Poesia Portuguesa (Do Orpheu a 1960), Lisboa, Instituto de Cultura e Língua Portuguesa, 1983.

PEREIRA, José Carlos Seabra, História Crítica da Literatura Portuguesa. Do Fim- de- Século ao Modernismo, vol. VII, Lisboa,/ S. Paulo, Editorial Verbo, 1995.

REIS, Carlos, Literatura Portuguesa Moderna e Contemporânea, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 1990.