Sumários

Luís de Camões - Lyric Poetry

8 Outubro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Notions of: European Renaissance; Portugal in the 16th Century; Lyric poetry in the renaissance.


Introduction to the literary work of Camões. 

Reading and discussion of:

Luís de Camões, Selected Poetry (“The state I´m in in so unsteady”; “My errors, cruel fortune and ardent love”; “Oh let that sad and joyful dawn”; “The sky, the earth, the wind blowing softly...”; “With the pitcher on her head”; “That lovely slave”, in: Sonnets and Other Poems, Trans. Richard Zenith, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2009. 


The India Play

6 Outubro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Presentation and discussion of: 


Gil Vicente, The India Play, in: Three Discovery Plays, Aris & Phillips Ltd, Warminster. 


Troubadour Poetry (cont.)

1 Outubro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Review of the previous class.


Thematic and formal approach to the Cantigas de Amor. Notions of: Provençal Literature; Portugal under the reign of D. Dinis; medieval literary conceptions of love and eroticism.    

Reading of, and discussion about, the following songs: “Song about the Pain of Love and Sea”; “Song in Provençal Style”; “Song about the Provençal Poets”, in: 113 Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems. Trad. Richard Zenith. Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1995.

Listening to "O que nunca vos cuidei a dizer" (D. Dinis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkzqAH8y0uY .

Introduction to the Galician-Portuguese Medieval Songs database: http://cantigas.fcsh.unl.pt/index.asp?ling=eng .


Troubadour Poetry

29 Setembro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Introduction to the Galician-Portuguese Literature.


Notions of: oral literature; galician-portuguese language; medieval songs; poetic lyricism; courtly love; major song genres (Cantiga de Amigo, Cantiga de Escárnio e Maldizer, e Cantiga de Amor).

Brief thematic and formal approach to "Cantiga de Amigo"  and "Cantiga de Escárnio e Maldizer".

Reading of, and discussion about, the following troubadour songs:“Song for a Sleeping Lover”; “Song for a Sleepless Night”; “Seven Songs for a Beloved in Vigo”; “Song for an Unarriving Lover”; “Song to a Learned Abbess”; “Song for an Ugly Lady”, in: 113 Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems. Trad. Richard Zenith. Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1995. 

Listening to the first of the "Seven Songs for a Beloved in Vigo" (Martin Codax): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFyGDTaHD0 .


Introdução

24 Setembro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Apresentação do textbook, do syllabus e do calendário de aulas a dar.

Informação sobre avaliação: 
30% para 3 Response papers (10% cada)
20% para preparação dos textos e participação nas aulas
50% Exame final