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Temas de Cultura Portuguesa I
Courses Doutoramento em Estudos Portugueses
Cod: 53042
Department: DH
ECTS: 15
Scientific area: Portuguese Literature and Culture
Total working hours: 390
Total contact time: 60

The course Themes of Portuguese Culture I offers an in-depth study of fictional texts by José Saramago, José Cardoso Pires, and Lídia Jorge, based on a comparative and transmedial approach. Drawing on concepts and reflections developed within the field of Narrative Studies, with an emphasis on intermediality, the course outlines a path of reading and research focused on works deliberately constructed in dialogue with other forms of artistic expression, especially cinema and music. In this context, literature is understood as a space of aesthetic convergence, in which narrative strategies evoke practices and representations characteristic of other media.

The course aims to promote critical reflection on the relationships between literary form, cultural memory, and artistic practices in contemporary Portugal, fostering research and further study of Portuguese Culture and Literature from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Contemporary Portuguese Literature

Portuguese Culture

Intermediality

Narrative construction

By the end of this course, doctoral students are expected to have developed the following general and specific skills:

  • Ability to relate literary texts to their cultural contexts of production;
  • Ability to establish relevant connections between different works and artistic languages;
  • Ability to identify and analyze intermedial dialogues and narrative strategies in the novelistic construction of José Saramago, José Cardoso Pires, Lídia Jorge and other contemporary writers;
  • Ability to formulate and express ideas with clarity, rigor, and critical reasoning;
  • Ability to carry out in-depth research, using the tools acquired throughout the course to write assignments that offer a critical and innovative approach to the topics studied.

Focusing on fiction produced in Portugal from the 20th to the 21st century, with particular emphasis on texts that, either explicitly or implicitly, engage in dialogue with cinema and music, the syllabus for Themes of Portuguese Culture I is organized around three major themes. These will be explored with the support of selected critical texts and narratological concepts used as heuristic tools:

  1. Seeing books, reading films: foundations of intermediality;
  2. Musicalization and cinematization of literary narrative;
  3. Memory, identity, and artistic practices.

NOTE: Only a few mandatory and/or reference readings are listed here. Specific bibliography for each of the modules in the syllabus will be provided during the course.

 

DAWSON, Paul; MÄKELÄ, Maria (orgs.). The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. New York: Routledge, 2023.

GENETTE, Gérard. Métalepse : de la figure à la fiction. Paris: Seuil, 2004.

HERMAN, David; JAHN, Manfred; RYAN, Marie-Laure (orgs.). Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. New York: Routledge, 2005.

JORGE, Lídia. A costa dos murmúrios. Lisboa: Editores Reunidos, 1994 [1988].

JORGE, Lídia. A noite das mulheres cantoras. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2011.

JORGE, Lídia. Os memoráveis. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2014.

PIRES, José Cardoso. Balada da Praia dos Cães. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 2015 [1982].

PIRES, José Cardoso. E agora, José? 2. ed. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 1999.

PIRES, José Cardoso. O Delfim. 15. ed. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 2015 [1968].

RAJEWSKY, Irina. “Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Remediation: A Literary Perspective on Intermediality”, Intermédialités : Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques. Université de Montréal, n. 6, 2005. 43-64.

SARAMAGO, José. Discursos de Estocolmo. Lisboa: Fundação José Saramago, s.d [1998].

SARAMAGO, José. Ensaio sobre a cegueira. 27. ed. Porto: Porto Editora, 2022 [1995].

SARAMAGO, José. Levantado do chão. 21. ed. Porto: Porto Editora, 2018 [1980].

SARAMAGO, José. O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis. 25. ed. Porto: Porto Editora, 2016 [1984].

WOLF, Werner. The Musicalization of Fiction: a Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

E-learning.

Assessment is individual and involves two different approaches: continuous assessment (60%) and final assessment (40%). This evaluation will be carried out using various methods defined in the course’s Learning Contract.