Sumários

Portuguese literature in 20th and 21st Centuries: introduction.

27 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Introduction to main topics, authors, and literary movements of the Portuguese Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Camilo Pessanha

22 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Guest Professor: Jeffrey Childs.

Introduction to Camilo Pessanha's life and literary work. Introduction to the Symbolism.

Reading and discussion about:

a) Camilo Pessanha, Selected Poetry, translated by Jeffrey Childs (“Who soiled these linens, who left them stained and torn”, “Images that flicker across the retinas”, “I cannot say if this is love. But if pain grips me”; "I saw a light in a lost country"; "Desires"; "Madrigal"; "Ice Sonnet").

b) Charles Baudelaire, "Correspondences", The Flowers of Evil, Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guil, 1954.

c) John Ashbery, "As You Came From The Holy Land", Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1975.

External activity

20 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Guided tour to Casa Fernando Pessoa by its staff.

Eça de Queirós

15 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Reading and discussion about Eça de Queirós, “The Ideosyncrasies of a Young blond woman”, in: The Mandarin and Other Stories, Trans. Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus, 2009.

Notions of: Literary Realism and Romantism in the European and Portuguese Literatures; Lisbon in the 19th century.

Luís de Camões - Epic Poetry

13 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Reading and discussion about "The Lusiads" (excerpts from Canto I, Canto IV, Canto V, CantoX), Trans. Landeg White, Oxford World Classics, 2008.