Course of: PORTUGUESE LITERATURE III
DEGREE: MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CIVILISATIONS (First Degree (DM 270))
TYPE OF COURSE:
Language of instruction:
Italian Objectives of the course
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of contemporary Portuguese literature, through the particular point of view of some famous works wrote upon Lisbon.
Course contents
A literary look on contemporary Lisbon.
An overview of contemporary portuguese literature, through the point of view of some famous authors who wrote on Lisbon. The city is considered as a benchmark of portuguese culture, but also as a urban and poetic space in which the writers search their inner selves: the students will read and analise works from Cesário Verde, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago e António Lobo Antunes.
Recommended readings
ENRICO MARTINES, Sguardi letterari su Lisbona contemporanea, lecture notes.
LAURA CIPRIANI, Lisbona. Città dell’inquietudine, Milano, Unicopli, 2003.
ELIA GANDOLFI, La Lisbona postcoloniale nell'opera di Antonio Lobo Antunes, lecture notes.
Letture:
CESÁRIO VERDE, Poesie, Perugia, 1982.
FERNANDO PESSOA, Livro do Desassossego.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO, O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis, Lisboa, Caminho, 1984.
ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES, As Naus, Lisboa, Dom Quixote, Circulo de leitores, 1988.
JOSÉ CARDOSO PIRES, Lisboa, livro de bordo: vozes, olhares, memorações, Lisboa, Dom
Quixote, 1997.
Academic year:
2012
Course code:
15019
Year of study:
3
Semester:
2
Number of credits:
6 Name of lecturer
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