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.
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:
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.