PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 2 MOD.1
- Academic year
- 2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- LETTERATURA PORTOGHESE E BRASILIANA 2 MOD.1
- Course code
- LT002V (AF:277658 AR:166133)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6 out of 12 of PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 2
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-LIN/08
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 2
- Where
- VENEZIA
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The course aims to provide an overview of nineteenth-century Portuguese culture through the in-depth study of literary fiction (especially novels, but also short stories and novellas).
Expected learning outcomes
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: applying the knowledge acquired to the contextualization of novels in the historical-cultural, literary and political framework in which they were produced.
3. Autonomy of judgement: ability to acquire and apply adequate critical tools in the analysis of the narrative texts indicated, on a thematic and stylistic-formal level, also putting them in relation to the context; being able to formulate a personal evaluation and commentary on the literary and cultural specificities that emerged during the course; ability to identify thematic nuclei within the covered topics and to autonomously select critical commentary texts that refer to these nuclei.
4. Communicative skills: understanding the exposition of an academic discourse; knowing how to present in a clear and coherent way a studied problem; knowing how to argue in a coherent and effective way.
5. Ability to learn: learning how to recognise the type of text and formulate hypotheses of analysis; learning how to establish appropriate links between the facts and materials examined and the ideas and context in which they are expressed; learning the basics of building a bibliography from a thematic nucleus of interest.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
A. In Portuguese:
- GARRETT, Almeida, Portugal na balança da Europa, Coimbra, Universidade de Coimbra, 2013 [1830].
- GARRETT, Almeida, Viagens na minha terra, Porto, Bloco Gráfico, 1980 [1846].
- HERCULANO, Alexandre, Eurico, o Presbítero, Venda Nova/Amadora, Livraria Bertrand, s.d. [1844].
- HERCULANO, Alexandre, Lendas e narrativas, Lisboa, Editorial Comunicação, 1987 [1851].
- HERCULANO, Alexandre, “Qual é o estado da nossa literatura? Qual é o trilho que ela hoje tem a seguir?”, in Opúsculos IX, Lisboa, Livraria Bertrand, 1982 [1873-1876], pp. 1-8.
- BRANCO, Camilo Castelo, Amor de perdição, Porto, Porto Editora, 1980 [1862].
- DINIS, Júlio, A morgadinha dos canaviais, Porto, Livraria Figueirinhas, 1965 [1868].
- QUENTAL, Antero de, Causas da decadência dos povos peninsulares, Lisboa, Tinta da China, 2008 [1871].
- QUENTAL, Antero de, Considerações sobre a philosophia da história litterária portugueza (A proposito d'alguns livros recentes), Porto / Braga, Livraria internacional, 1872.
- ALMEIDA, Fialho de, A cidade do vício, Porto, Clássica Editora, 1982 [1882].
- QUEIRÓS, Eça de, O crime do padre Amaro, Porto, Lello & Irmão, s.d. [1876].
- QUEIRÓS, Eça de, A ilustre casa de Ramires, Porto, Livraria Chardron, 1900.
- QUEIRÓS, Eça de, A correspondência de Fradique Mendes, Porto, Livraria Chardron, 1900.
- QUEIRÓS, Eça de, “Positivismo e idealismo”, in Notas contemporâneas, Porto, Livraria Lello & irmãos, 1945, pp. 239-253.
B. Translated into Italian:
- GARRETT, Almeida, Viaggi nella mia terra, Bracciano, Tuga edizioni, 2015.
- HERCULANO, Alexandre, La volta, Perugia, Edizioni dell'Urogallo, 2019.
- BRANCO, Camilo Castelo, Amore di perdizione: memorie di una famiglia, Palermo, Sellerio, 2000.
- QUENTAL, Antero de, Cause della decadenza dei popoli peninsulari, Perugia, Edizioni dell'Urogallo, 2014.
- QUENTAL, Antero de, Scritti letterari, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso.
- QUEIRÓS, Eça de, La colpa di don Amaro, Milano, Rizzoli, 1962.
- QUEIRÓS, Eça de, L'illustre casata Ramires, Firenze, Sansoni, 1963.
- QUEIRÓS, Eça de, La corrispondenza di Fradique Mendes, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis, 2009.
2. Critical works on the theoretical, historical and historical-literary framework:
LANCIANI, Giulia, Il Settecento e l’Ottocento in Portogallo, Roma, UniversItalia, 2014.
MARINHO, Maria de Fátima, O romance histórico em Portugal, Porto, Campo das Letras, 1999.
MORETTI, Franco, Il romanzo, Torino, Einaudi, 2000.
RAMOS, Rui, História de Portugal, Lisboa, A esfera dos livros, 2015.
RUSSO, Vincenzo e VECCHI, Roberto, La letteratura portoghese: i testi e le idee, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2017.
SARAIVA, António José e LÓPES, Óscar Lópes, História da literatura portuguesa, 17ª ed., Lisboa, Porto Editora, 2004.
3. Critical essays:
ABBATI, Orietta, “Elementi ideologico-pedagogici nel romanzo storico di Alexandre Herculano”, in Annali dell’Istituto universitario Orientale di Napoli - Sezione romanza, 2007, pp. 623-644.
ALONSO, Claudia Pazos, "Ana Plácido, uma escritora oitocentista exemplar" in PETROW, Peter et al., Avanços em literatura e cultura portuguesa: da Idade Média ao século XIX, Faro/Santiago de Compostela, AIL/Através Editora, 2012, pp. 249-266.
RUSSO, Vincenzo, "Cultura e immaginario coloniale nel Portogallo finesecolare", in ACQUARELLI, Luca, Tenebre bianche: immaginari coloniali fin de siècle, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis, 2008, pp. 29-77.
SIMÕES, Manuel Gaspar, “A função intertextual de Carlos Fradique Mendes”, in Rassegna Iberistica, 44, 1992, pp. 3-16.
SILVESTRE, Osvaldo Manuel, "La volta: una presentazione", in HERCULANO, Alexandre, La volta, Perugia, Edizioni dell'Urogallo, 2019, pp. IX-XXIII.
Assessment methods
- For second year students: oral test, after a short written exercise on the construction of an annotated bibliography.
Teaching methods
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Further information
Other texts will be made available online during the course.