Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Paper Pg 1

Introduction to the Language, Literatures and Cultures of the Portuguese-speaking World

* The SPECIMEN PAPER for this new paper Pg1 can be found here.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PAPER WILL BE COMPULSORY FOR PART IA OPTION B STUDENTS FROM MICHAELMAS 2012 AND THAT IN PART IB IT WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE TO PART IB OPTION A STUDENTS, I.E. THOSE STUDENTS WHO IN THEIR FIRST YEAR WERE AB INITIO PORTUGUESE STUDENTS.

THIS PAPER WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO OFFER AS A PORTFOLIO OF ESSAYS.

Reading List

PLEASE NOTE: This page is being revised and a new webpage will be uploaded in due course. Do please note that the actual set of texts/authors/artists to be studied in 2013/14 will change from those mentioned below. For the draft lecture list for next academic year, please click here. Any queries regarding this paper should be addressed to Prof Manucha Lisboa mmgl100@cam.ac.uk

This new paper Pg1 is designed to give you an introduction to the main areas of study in the Portuguese Tripos, allowing you to sample study of literature, linguistics and art, from the nineteenth century to the present, including authors from Portugal, Brazil, Angola and Mozambique, and one Portuguese artist.

Lectures will be given during the Michaelmas and Lent terms and take place on Wednesdays at 12 p.m. and some weeks also on Mondays at 1 p.m.

You are strongly encouraged to read all the texts from the reading list over the summer vacation. You can purchase these texts from local bookshops (Heffers and Waterstone's are aware of our reading lists), or from online book-sellers like Amazon, Livraria Leitura, alibris or abebooks.

Paper structure

The paper is divided into four sections: Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa and Linguistics.
There will be nineteen lectures for Literature (Sections A, B and C) and five lectures for Linguistics (Section D).

Section A - Portugal

• Fernando Pessoa: Mensagem and selected heteronymic poetry
• Eça de Queirós: O Crime do Padre Amaro
• Paula Rego: paintings, pastels, prints and lithographs from 1960 to the present
• Hélia Correia, 'Fascinação' (short story)
• Alexandre Herculano, 'A Dama Pé de Cabra' (short story) (N.B. Hélia Correia's 'Fascinação' and Herculano's 'A Dama Pé de Cabra' are available together in a volume by Ed. Relógio de Água, Lisbon, 2004)
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Section B - Brazil

• Manuel Bandeira, Antologia Poética
• Graciliano Ramos, Vidas Secas

Section C - Lusophone Africa

• Luís Bernardo Honwana: Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso
• José Eduardo Agualusa, Nação Crioula

Section D – Linguistics is split into two strands

• Structure
  
• Phonetics and phonology of Portuguese
• Morphology of Portuguese
• Syntax of Portuguese

Varieties

• Varieties 1 (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Varieties 2 (Portuguese Creoles: Cape Verdian)

  At the same time, you will be covering some of the material in supervision. 

  For the Linguistics topic you will have one supervision per term, organised centrally. With your Literature supervisor, you wil normallyl have three supervisions in the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. The department’s policy is:

  • that supervisions should as far as possible keep in step with the lectures, so that the lectures provide background information for work being done in detail with supervisors
  • that students attend supervisions on literature and linguistics
  • that students should normally do detailed work on six of the texts
  • that these texts should be drawn evenly from each of the three sections.

  In the Easter term, before the examination, there are no lectures but you may have revision supervisions.

  Examination

  In the examination you are asked to answer three questions, each taken from a different section. The Brazilian section includes the option of a commentary question. In addition, two or three questions of a comparative nature will be included at the end of section C, but which can be answered with reference to authors/artist from sections A, B or C.

  It is expected that you will have prepared more than the minimum required to answer three questions in the examination; you will have done preparation for the paper skimpily and unproductively otherwise.