Course Description
Representative poetic texts from Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa analyzed in their cultural, social, and political contexts. Given in Portuguese.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate Students will be responsible for leading class discussion on selected days and will be required to write a 15-20 page final research paper.
Athena Title
Poetry of Port-Speaking World
Non-Traditional Format
Course will be offered approximately every two years.
Prerequisite
PORT 3030 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course will offer a comprehensive survey of lyric poetry written in Portuguese, from medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas to the present. Students will read selected works by representative Portuguese, Brazilian and Luso-African poets, as well as critical and theoretical texts examining major issues in the study of poetry in general and of Portuguese lyric tradition in particular. Undergraduate students will write a minimum of three (4-5 pp) critical papers in addition to two exams. Oral presentations in class will be required of both undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate students will also write a final research paper (15-20 pp). The course will be taught in Portuguese.
Topical Outline
Selections may include: 1. Medieval and Renaissance poetry: Cancioneiros, S de Miranda, Camoes 2. Baroque and Arcadism: Violante do C‚u, Greg¢rio de Matos, Cl udio Manuel da Costa 3. Romanticism: Almeida Garrett, Gon‡alves Dias, Castro Alves, Antero de Quental 4. Parnassianism and Realism: Olavo Bilac, Ces rio Verde 5. Symbolism: Cruz e Sousa, Ant¢nio Nobre, Camilo Pessanha, Florbela Espanca 6. Modernism and Postmodernism: Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, Agostinho Neto, Lu¡za Neto Jorge, Jos‚ Craveirinha
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