Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
L-LIN/08 (PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Curriculum
LINGUE PER L'IMPRESA
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Portuguese language required.
Learning outcomes
Students will learn about the main events, personalities and ideas related to Portugal, specifically in the19th and 20th century. Students will critically analyse literary texts and essays, being able to relate each text to the others and to contextualize them into the Portuguese and European cultural history.
Course contents
Literature as a means to interpret culture.
During the course, students will analyse literary texts and critical essays, and some works of art, movies or music pieces, through which will be possible to define and interpret some characters of the Portuguese culture. The aim of the course is to meditate on the connection that these texts maintain with the political and social changes occurred in Portugal in the 19th and 20th Century.
Teaching methods
Classes will be delivered in Portuguese. Individual presentations, reading and discussion of essays. Exhibition of documentaries and films.
Reccomended or required readings
General bibliography:
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques, Breve História de Portugal, Lisboa, Presença, 2001 (chapters about 19th e 20th Century).
• Valeria Tocco, Breve storia della letteratura portoghese, Roma, Carocci, 2011 (cap. 5-8). Only for the authors and topics debated during classes see: António José Saraiva - Oscar Lopes, Historia da literatura portuguesa Porto, Porto editora, 1987 (6a Época: cap. I; II; III; VII; VIII; X – 7a Época: cap. I-VIII)
Other texts:
• Literary and critical texts will be indicated or given in paper or pdf during the course.
Assessment methods
For students who will attend the classes the evaluation will be determined by the following:
60% from the final text in Portuguese
20% from the individual presentation (10 minutes). Only if the number of students allows it.
20% from a review of a movie or a documentary (1-2 pages in Portuguese)
Students who can’t attend the classes should contact the Professor.
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