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Portuguese Literature I
Courses Degree in Humanities
Cod: 51165
Department: DH
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Literature
Total working hours: 156
Total contact time: 15

Curricular unit that offers a panoramic view of Portuguese Literature, from the end of the 12th Century to the 16th Century. The main features that illustrate and distinguish the various literary forms cultivated during this time span are presented, as well as its most significant authors. Some specific texts considered as paradigmatic for the period under study will be analysed. Each year teo authors or two literary works will be proposed for a deeper study.

Portuguese Literature
Medieval Literature
16th Century Literature

By the end of this curricular unit, the student must have acquired / developed:
•broad knowledge on Medieval and 16th Century Portuguese Literature;
•competence to understand and to read critically texts in ancient and renaissance Portuguese;
•capacity to apply, in a selective and critical way, the acquired knowledge in the analysis of various kinds of texts;
•facility of expression, synthesis, reflection and criticism.

I.Medieval Literature
 a.Troubadour poetry
 b.“Matter of Brittany”
 c.Hagiographical, didactical and sapiential literature
 d.Historiography
 e.Literary production of the Avis court
II.16th Century literature
 a.Poetic anthologies
 b.Vicentine and post-Vicentine theatre
 c.Menina e Moça, by Bernardim Ribeiro
 d.Chivalry romances
 e.The chronicles of the Portuguese expansion
 f.Renaissance dialogues

Main Bibliography
MAGALHÃES, Isabel Allegro de (coord.), História e Antologia da Literatura Portuguesa I: séculos XIII-XV, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007 (Volume I) - also online: http://www.leitura.gulbenkian.pt/boletim_cultural/boletim_cultural.php?serie=HALP (fasc. nº 1 a 9)
MAGALHÃES, Isabel Allegro de (coord.), História e Antologia da Literatura Portuguesa I: século XVI, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007 (Volume II - tomos I e II) also online:
http://www.leitura.gulbenkian.pt/boletim_cultural/boletim_cultural.php?serie=HALP (fasc. nº 10 a 27)

Support bibliography:
BUESCU, Maria Leonor Carvalhão, Literatura Portuguesa Medieval, Lisboa, Universidade Aberta, 1990.
SARAIVA, António José & LOPES, Óscar, História da Literatura Portuguesa, Porto, Porto Editora, 2000.
TAVANI, Guiseppe & LANCIANI, Julia (org.), Dicionário da Literatura Medieval Galega e Portuguesa, Lisboa, Caminho, 1993.
NB: Complementary bibliography will be recommended for each specific topic of the curricular unit’s contents.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).