Literary Cultures

5 ECTS / Semestral / Português
  • Contribute to the definition of literature in different historical and cultural contexts;
  • Recognize variables present in the communication of the literary phenomenon;
  • Characterize literary genres and literary periods;
  • Analyze different modes of literary achievement;
  • Identify literary canon and poetic arts;
  • Understand the relevance of the author, the text and the reader at different moments in the history of literature
  • Analyze, based on selected literary texts, issues related to tradition, rewriting and intertextuality;
  • Understand relationships between contemporary Portuguese-speaking culture and literature;
  • Identify relationships between literary cultures and intermedia discourses.

Faculty

Professor Auxiliar
PhD in Humanities (2001), in the speciality of Latin Literature - area of Renaissance Humanism in Portugal, with the thesis ‘O Padre Luís da Cruz, S. J. e a…
Professor Associado
João Amadeu Oliveira Carvalho da Silva is an associate professor at the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). He has a PhD in Humanities in the area of…