História Cultural e Artística Francesa
Courses Licenciatura em Humanidades
The course, sub-titled ‘Art and Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-gardes of the 20th century’, offers an overview of French cultural and artistic history from Romanticism to Surrealism. Opting for a comparative methodology, it will focus on the relationship between the visual arts and poetry, through the most striking aesthetic and literary movements of the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the first quarter of the 20th century. The study of selected poems by some Romantic authors and the works of Baudelaire and Apollinaire will be articulated with a reflection on the concepts of rupture, modernity, and avant-garde based on the theoretical production of the authors themselves.
French Literature
Poetry
Romanticism
Symbolism
Surrealism
Avant-garde
At the end of this course unit students should be able to:
- identify the aesthetic movements and their key moments in European and French culture from the first half of the 19th century to the end of the first quarter of the 20th century
- understand the concept of “avant-garde”
- understand the ongoing dialogue between literature and art, history and society through the works on offer
- critically analyse literary, metaliterary and pictorial documents, using a comparative methodology and appropriate terminology
ART AND POETRY FROM ROMANTICISM TO THE AVANT-GARDES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
1. Romanticism
1.1 Historical context and fundamental principles
1.2 Romantic poetry, from Lamartine to Nerval
2. Baudelaire and Symbolism
2.1 A new poetry
2.2 Baudelaire’s reflection on art
3. Art and the Avant-Garde: Apollinaire
3.1. Apollinaire's “esprit nouveau”
3.2 Alcools (1913) and Calligrammes (1918): poetic experimentation and visual poetry
Works
APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume – Alcools suivi de Calligrammes. Paris: Pocket Classiques, 2018 (ou outra edição integral)
BAUDELAIRE, Charles − Les Fleurs du Mal. Ed. John E. Jackson. Préface Yves Bonnefoy. Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1972 (ou outra edição de bolso). Ebook: Les Fleurs du mal (Poche 1972), de Charles Baudelaire | Livre de Poche
BAUDELAIRE, Charles – A invenção da modernidade (sobre arte, literatura e música). Trad. Pedro Tamen. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 2006.
BAUDELAIRE, Charles − Le spleen de Paris : petits poèmes en prose. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2006.
Studies
COMPAGNON, Antoine − Les cinq paradoxes de la modernité. Paris: Seuil, 1990.
LOURENÇO, Jorge Fazenda − O Essencial sobre Charles Baudelaire. Lisboa: INCM, 2022.
MONTEIRO, Ofélia ; OLIVEIRA, Cristina Cordeiro − Literatura Francesa Moderna e Contemporânea. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 1991
Other resources will be made available and / or advised throughout the semester.
E-learning
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%).