Undergraduate Course: Dictatorship, Resistance and Revolution in 20th Century Portuguese Literature (ELCH10061)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course will examine Portuguese culture, society and political history through texts taken from a variety of genres. A wide-ranging selection of novels and short stories will be studied in the context of historical and political events. Particular attention will be paid to the following themes: empire and dictatorship; national identity and nation-building; religion; family, gender and sexuality; post-colonialism, post-modernism, revolution and ideology. These topics will allow the student to think and write comparatively, and to combine detailed textual analysis with theoretical debate and a consideration of historical and cultural factors. Classes will be a mixture of lecture, seminar and student-led discussion. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Entry to Portuguese Honours |
| Additional Costs | Students must purchase copies of the set texts |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- grasp major themes and trends in Portuguese culture in the 20th century, especially those concerning the dictatorship years and the post-colonial period
- evaluate the ways in which different genres and the diversity of Portuguese culture in the 20th century make possible different modes of engagement with these genres
- analyse Portuguese cultural materials using critical and theoretical methodologies to substantiate and illustrate arguments
- improve their skills of literary/filmic criticism and theoretical analysis
- enhance their communication skills through a variety of techniques, from essay writing, commentary analysis to oral presentations
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Reading List
Recommended:
David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
Eduardo Lourenço, Fernando Pessoa revisitado: leitura estruturante do drama em gente
Helena Kaufman & Anna Klobucka (eds), After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature
Hilary Owen & Anna Klobucka (Editors), Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections
Hilary Owen & Claudia Pazos-Alonso, Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Genealogy and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Raquel Ribeiro
Tel: (0131 6)51 7112
Email: raquel.ribeiro@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kat Zabecka
Tel: (0131 6)50 4026
Email: K.Zabecka@ed.ac.uk |
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