2023
Contemporary Portuguese Literature I
Name: Contemporary Portuguese Literature I
Code: LLT11298M
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area:
Literature
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
In conjunction with the unit Lit. Port. Contemp. II, this program seeks to understand the central aesthetic link
between corporeality, desire and literature.
Instances in whose merge the categories of biological and symbolic, sensory and transcendent, the body and
the eroticism work, in the fictional contemporary Portuguese narrative, as heuristic concepts, to improve the
understanding of a fundamental trait of artistic creation: its central eroticism, its visceral connection to an
organic sphere, imaginary and libido, main expression of literary iconicity.
Some works of selected authors (Camilo Castelo-Branco, Eça de Queirós) may bear witness to the persistence,
break or inflection of aesthetic models and stylistic practices in its intimate connection with erotic array of
literary creation.
between corporeality, desire and literature.
Instances in whose merge the categories of biological and symbolic, sensory and transcendent, the body and
the eroticism work, in the fictional contemporary Portuguese narrative, as heuristic concepts, to improve the
understanding of a fundamental trait of artistic creation: its central eroticism, its visceral connection to an
organic sphere, imaginary and libido, main expression of literary iconicity.
Some works of selected authors (Camilo Castelo-Branco, Eça de Queirós) may bear witness to the persistence,
break or inflection of aesthetic models and stylistic practices in its intimate connection with erotic array of
literary creation.
Contents
1. The love and literature
1.1 The discursive continuum of Western sexuality;
1.2 The discourse on eroticism: from Plato to Foucault;
2. Evolutionary codification of literary erotica, the sentimental idealization of courteous empowerment and
postmodernity.
2.1 The revolution of erotic romanticism
2.1.1 Camilo Castelo Branco: The satirical novel
2.2 Ironização and somatization undertaken by literary realism-naturalism
2.2.1 Eça de Queirós Eroticism: a personal mythology and literary evolution
1.1 The discursive continuum of Western sexuality;
1.2 The discourse on eroticism: from Plato to Foucault;
2. Evolutionary codification of literary erotica, the sentimental idealization of courteous empowerment and
postmodernity.
2.1 The revolution of erotic romanticism
2.1.1 Camilo Castelo Branco: The satirical novel
2.2 Ironização and somatization undertaken by literary realism-naturalism
2.2.1 Eça de Queirós Eroticism: a personal mythology and literary evolution
Teaching Methods
The methodologies adopted in this unit are:
1. Classroom sessions of theoretical-practical methodology, in which one the following teaching strategies and
continuous evaluation (formative, direct observation) will be observed:
- exposure to historical and epistemological notions, central to the content covered;
- reflection based on theoretical and critical texts;
- Theoretical and methodological explanations, with visual support, followed by discussion;
- exploratory and dialogic reading of texts or works proposed for application and / or questioning of key
concepts previously discussed;
- Registration of the hermeneutics syntheses.
2. Autonomous work of individual research, embodied in the writing of a text of a scientific nature,
accompanied by the teacher, where students explore, in the corpus properly choosing the productivity of the
themes and concepts developed in the classroom sessions. This work will also be assessed.
1. Classroom sessions of theoretical-practical methodology, in which one the following teaching strategies and
continuous evaluation (formative, direct observation) will be observed:
- exposure to historical and epistemological notions, central to the content covered;
- reflection based on theoretical and critical texts;
- Theoretical and methodological explanations, with visual support, followed by discussion;
- exploratory and dialogic reading of texts or works proposed for application and / or questioning of key
concepts previously discussed;
- Registration of the hermeneutics syntheses.
2. Autonomous work of individual research, embodied in the writing of a text of a scientific nature,
accompanied by the teacher, where students explore, in the corpus properly choosing the productivity of the
themes and concepts developed in the classroom sessions. This work will also be assessed.
Teaching Staff
- Ana Luísa Liberato Vieira Vilela Anileiro Onofre [responsible]
Certificações
