2000

Romanticism originated the essential characteristics of modern poetry: Marking pace more than metrics, free verse, blank spaces and typographic marks to express silence, negative categories used to explain poems, the use of hyperbaton to express the fragmentation of reality, the uselessness of syntax or a poem´s tendency to narrate. The course examines the theoretic assumptions of English and German romanticism, and the works of William Blank, to recognize the theoretic fundamentals of the English poet. Similarly, the theoretic assumptions of Symbolism are studied in the work of the modern poet par excellence, Charles Baudelaire, and those of Surrealism in the novel Nadja by Andre Breton.

Mandatory requirement to obtain title of Writer, according to the student’s research interests: narrative gender (novel, story, tale) Lyric (poetry), literary movement or historical problem, literature theory or critic. It is a monographic research work under the direction of a Professor and it does not require the students’ full attendance to the university’s campus.

The course takes a descriptive journey through the states and levels of a language in order to understand the linguistic characteristics of Spanish in its different stages.

This course delves into the study of the Latin language, by reading and interpreting advanced classic texts from Roman culture. The reading of Cicero, Catullus, Ovid and Virgil complete the panorama.

This course delves into the study of the Greek language, by reading and interpreting advanced classic texts from Greek culture. The reading of Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sappho and Sophocles complete the panorama.

Apply the knowledge of grammar and syntax of the Latin language acquired in courses prior to the reading and interpretation of Latin authors. Special emphasis is placed on verb syntax.

In addition to being a simple panoramic view of some of the central texts of literary tradition in Brazil, this course attempts to reflect on the connections and divergences between this literature and that of the rest of Latin America. Therefore, we will follow a problematic periodization in order to see how certain currents that are central to writing in Latin America (Modernism, regionalist writing, boom, the Dictator Novel) have slightly different manifestations in the Brazilian setting, for historic and cultural reasons. On another note, the course aims to familiarize students with contemporaneous literary theory centered on Brazilian literature with its different aspects.

This course will examine three tale collections in their historic and cultural contexts: the Arabian collection Arabian Nights (6-14th Century) and the Castilian collections adapted from Arabian Kalila and Dimna (8th Century) and Sendebar (8th Century). The pieces will be analyzed in their literary, didactic (as transmitters of ethic, spiritual, political and aesthetic knowledge) and historic (as products of the traffic of fiction between Medieval Europe and the Middle East) dimensions, and as meeting points between oral tradition and writing). It will also study its influence on the formation of the modern genres of short stories and novels, as well as the formation of modern authors and readers. Reading the medieval works suggested in this course will help identify the main themes and motivations present in the medieval beginnings of vernacular literature that continue to affect their ulterior development.