PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 2 MOD.1

The teaching of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature 2 MOD 1 is common to all the addresses of the degree course in Languages, Civilizations and Language Sciences.

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of Portuguese language literatures, with particular attention to the development of some poems and texts from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Knowledge of the socio-cultural and historical-political dynamics that affect literary production; ability to understand some of the main works of Portuguese language culture both in terms of content and in terms of their socio-cultural, literary and artistic implications.
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: apply the knowledge acquired to the context of Portuguese language literatures in the historical-cultural and political context in which it was produced.
3. Autonomy of judgment: ability to acquire and apply adequate critical tools in the analysis of poetry or a text on the thematic and stylistic-formal level, also relating them to the context;
4. Communication skills: understanding the exposition of an academic speech; knowing how to present a studied problem in a clear and coherent manner, knowing how to express concepts with clarity and terminological precision.
5. Learning ability: learning to recognize poetic and narrative genres; learning to reflect on the meaning of metaphors in a more complex way.

Basic knowledge of European history and culture.

The LITERATURES OF PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE: A PLURAL WORLD
The course provides a brief overview of the history of Portuguese language literatures in a synthetic way in order to satisfy the needs of a preliminary approach to the knowledge of the category of Portuguese-speaking cultures. The course covers a time span that goes from medieval Iberian lyric poetry to the contemporary era. The course will be dedicated to the works of some of the most representative writers in the Portuguese-speaking context. On the one hand, the course will try to provide an in-depth study of the main literary themes and movements and on the other hand, analyze part of the work of the various writers cited, placing them in the historical context of literary movements. Information on the authors and a summary critical perspective will be provided, as well as texts in full or anthological version 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 (openaccess)
Further specific bibliography will be provided during the course.

The exam is a written exercise. Students MAY do a creative work evaluated up to 10 pt and presented in class in the last days of the course. This work would consist of doing a more in-depth research of a work or a creative oral presentation of a text or poem, transforming it into an artistic product such as an exhibition, theatrical drama or any other form of art. It can be done in a group or alone and specific guidance will be given during the course.
The final written exam has 6 questions (5 points each) and must be handwritten, made between 3 or 4 pages (about half a page for each question). It must be a personal commentary that shows how to intertwine the various points of the study, in order to verify the depth of the topic developed and its connection with the entire content of the course (debate, bibliography and lessons). For those who have done the creative work, it is enough to answer four questions.

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Evaluation criteria.
The evaluation will take into consideration the ability to critically use specific literature (30%), use concepts appropriately (15%), arrange data correctly (15%), the ability to analyze the literary text (30%) and originality (10%).

The course will be divided into lectures; seminars; interactive activities. The course deals with literature in an interdisciplinary way; multimedia materials will be used in addition to the bibliography, such as interviews and documentaries.

All students are invited to have an interview with the teacher at the beginning of the course to have a personal orientation.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development