PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 1

The course of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature 2 MOD 1 is common to all the curricula available in the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Language, Civilisation and the Science of Language.

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the Portuguese lyric, with particular study of poetry of the twentieth century. Knowledge of socio-cultural and historical-political dynamics that affect literary production; ability to understand the importance of the poetic phenomenon; ability to understand some of the main poems of Portuguese culture both in terms of content and in terms of their socio-cultural, literary, and artistic implications.
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: to apply the knowledge acquired to the context of poetry 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 poetry, on a thematic and stylistic-formal level, also putting them in relation to the context.
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 express concepts with clarity and terminological precision.
5. Ability to learn: learning how to recognize poetic genres and think about the meaning of metaphors in a more complex way.

Basic knowledge of European history and culture.

The course is developed in two parts; a first dedicated to the study of Portuguese poetry in a time span that runs from medieval Iberian opera to nowadays; a second that will be dedicated to the works of the most representative poets of Portuguese poetry from XX century, as Fernando Pessoa, Eugénio de Andrade, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Jorge de Sena, Fiama Hasse Paes Brandão, Luiza Neto Jorge, Mário Cesariny and so on. In the first segment, an in-depth study will be dedicated to the themes and poetic movements and in the second segment, specific poet’s tests will be analysed, framing them in the historical context of the literary movements. It will be provided: information on the authors and a critical perspective summary beyond texts in full version or anthology that will also be examined based on the information already given

BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:

ARSILO, Vincenzo. “Só água era memória”: lógica residuale e declinazione dell’oblio in Eugénio de Andrade. Rassegna Iberistica, 2007.
BARBIERI, M. La poesia medievale galego-portoghese. Liriche della "saudade/canzoni di scherno e maldicenza". In: Letteratura del Portogallo. Verona: Fiorini Editore, 2007.
BONI, Guia Minerva. Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (open access).
LANCIANI, G. Profilo di storia linguistica e letteraria del Portogallo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1999.
MILDONIAN, Paola. Ulisse e il mito atlantico nella poesia portoghese. Fiorini; Verona, 2000.
PICCHIO, L. Stegagno. Il Portogallo. Dalle origini al Seicento. Firenze: Passigli, 2001.
______. Antologia della poesia portoghese e brasiliana. Roma: Fireze: La Biblioteca di Reppublica E-ducation. It, 2004.
RUSSO, V. B. Pizzo. La letteratura portoghese medievale. In Le letteratura romanze medievale. L'area iberica, a cura di M. L. Meneghetti. Bari: Laterza, 1999.
TAVANI, G. Da Pessoa a Oliveira: la moderna poesia portoghese: modernismo, surrealismo e neorrealismo. Milano: Accademia, 1973.
TOCCO, Valeria. Breve storia della letteratura portoghese. Roma Canocci, 2011.
VECCHI, R.; CALAFATE RIBEIRO, M. A Guerra Colonial e a poesia portoguesa contemporânea: quatro tempos de uma memória (open access)

Other specific bibliography will be provided during the course.

The exam will be an oral interview (consisting of some questions, 20’), in Italian in which the student's ability to read and analyse a passage taken from a text from the bibliography will be tested. All parts of the program will be considered fundamental.
The exam aims to verify the knowledge of the topics covered in the course; the understanding of the works studied, the understanding of the concepts and the quality of the exhibition and the ability to develop judgments in establishing and relationships between the topics presented during the course.

The course will be divided into lectures and literary translation laboratories for an in-depth study of the linguistic-cultural aspects of the texts analysed during the various meetings. The course deals with literature in an interdisciplinary way; multimedia materials will be used in addition to the bibliography, such as interviews and documentaries.

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Other specific bibliography will be provided during the course.
Non-attending students are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.

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