Unit PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE I
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- A000134
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Vera Lucia De Oliveira
- Teachers
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- Vera Lucia De Oliveira
- Hours
- 54 ore - Vera Lucia De Oliveira
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Lingue e letterature moderne
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Portuguese
- Contents
- THE MAGICAL AND MYTHICAL BRASIL OF GUIMARÃES ROSA
- Reference texts
- Various theoretical and practical material will be provided through the Unistudim platform: http://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BORIS, Fausto, Storia del Brasile, Fabula, 2010.
GUIMARÃES ROSA, João, Sagarana, Ed. Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro, 1984, 28ª ed. [ed. it. Sagarana, a cura di S. La Regina, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1994].
GUIMARÃES ROSA, João, Manuelzão e Miguilim, Nova Fronteira, Rio de Janeiro 1984 [ed. it. Miguilim, trad. di Edoardo Bizzarri, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1984].
GUIMARÃES ROSA, João, Primeiras Estórias. Nova Fronteira. Rio de Janeiro 2001 [ed. it. La terza sponda del fiume, a cura di Giulia Lanciani, Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2003].
OLIVEIRA, Vera Lúcia de. Storie nella storia: Le parabole di Guimarães Rosa, Pensa Multimedia, Lecce, 2006.
STEGAGNO PICCHIO, Luciana, Storia breve della letteratura brasiliana, Il Melangolo, Genova, 2005.
For working and otherwise non-attending students the bibliography is the same, but it is advisable to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the year for any bibliographical additions where necessary.
Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (Prof. Alessandra Di Pilla:
alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Educational objectives
- LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Knowledge:
The course introduces a deeper understanding of Brazilian literature and culture through one of the greatest writers of the Portuguese language, João Guimarães Rosa. Rosa's work focuses on the agrarian communities of central Brazil in which the mixture of Amerindian, Afro-Brazilian and Portuguese elements favored the formation of an original culture and in which the linguistic structures of archaic Portuguese were maintained, to which semantic-lexical structures of Bantu and indigenous Central Brazilian origin were amalgamated.
It will provide useful elements for understanding the hybrid and complex reality of a country-continent also in its relations with other Portuguese-speaking nations.
It will foster an understanding of the history and formation of Brazilian society in its difficult relationship with its past as a nation that underwent a violent process of colonization that led to the almost total disappearance of the indigenous population following the arrival of the Portuguese and Europeans.
Skills:
To know how to frame authors, works and phenomena in relation to historical and socio-cultural contexts, as well as public and critical reception.
To be able to analyze and communicate the main phases and authors of Brazilian and Portuguese literature with a good knowledge of the specific vocabulary.
Capabilities:
Contribute to the development of communication skills, the application of one's knowledge and the refinement of learning practices.
To mature an adequate capacity for critical judgement also in function of autonomous research and in-depth study paths.
The knowledge acquired at the end of the course can be applied by students in a future professional context: in school teaching following the qualification processes, in cultural institutions, in publishing and literary translation. - Prerequisites
- No prerequisites needed to understand the contents covered and pursue learning objectives.
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of classroom lectures on all subjects of the program and will be held entirely in Portuguese.
The teacher will encourage the participatory intervention by the students both with the request for any clarifications or with the expression of personal opinions. The project will promote active reception of the course
content which, in turn, allow a weighted acquisition of the contents.
Students with disabilities and/or SLDs may request, in consultation with the lecturer, any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other technological tools to facilitate the study phase. For general information, please consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Contact Person (Prof. A. Di Pilla).
In the academic year 2023/2024, the University of Perugia has made provision for 11 categories of students to be admitted to the DaD. Students who may be interested are invited to check the possibility of following the lessons in DaD at the website ).
DAD Procedure - University of Perugia (unipg.it) - Other information
- During the course, several activities will take place such as lectures, panel discussions and film screenings in Portuguese on the course topics and other issues related to the Portuguese and Brazilian cultures.
Students should report to the professor for the full schedule of these
activities at the beginning of the first and second semesters.
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). - Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an oral interview lasting about half an hour with an open stimulus, with an open answer on the covered topics and it will be aimed at verifying both the understanding and the ability to apply the knowledge discussed during the course.
The final evaluation of the oral examination will be calculated in thirtieths.
Students who have attended at least 70 per cent of the lectures will be given the opportunity to take the exemption from some exams in seminar form.
Students with disabilities and / or with DSA: for the modality of carrying out the verification tests, students can take advantage of inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensatory measures provided for by the legislation. Technologies, tools and measures must be
requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the tests.
For general information, consult the University Services on the page
https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator. - Extended program
- In literature course focuses on the work of João Guimarães Rosa (1907-1967), the greatest of contemporary Brazilian storytellers, who has been translated into many languages. Guimarães Rosa's short stories have as their setting Minas Gerais and describe events, landscapes, and customs typical of a region that is marginal to more familiar Brazil. The characters are country people, original, straightforward, simple and authentic types, now resigned, now rebellious. The universe of the sertão is rough and often cruel, a world of frontier and fences, divided rigidly between rich and poor, bandits and helpless people, cunning and clueless characters. It is in the stories, reconstruction, and literary reorganization of this microcosm that the dichotomous poles are attenuated, the imbalances offset. The course focuses on the analysis of some of the author's best-known short stories, found in Sagarana, Primeiras Estórias and Campo Geral. In them, an attempt will be made to highlight the compositional structural mechanisms of the texts also in their relations with the socio-historical context that serves as their setting.
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