Department of Spanish and Portuguese

VT: Love, Desire, and the Lyric 

This course studies a broad range of poetry in Portuguese from Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking Africa across different periods from medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric to contemporary poetry. We will explore how poetry treats topics like love, desire, gender, and sexuality on the thematic level, but also how eroticism, identity, or the body inform and transform both poetic practices and our reading and understanding of poetry’s import. We will devote more time to the twentieth century, what critics call the golden era of poetry in Portuguese, including the modernist, experimental, and concrete movements. Some claim Portuguese is particularly poetic as a language and poets and poetic movements have had outsized historical and political significance and shaped national and cultural identities. Let’s reconsider some of these canonical and less canonical voices and ask ourselves how the leitmotivs of love and desire are intimately tied to the poetic.

HISP-P 470    #23284    12:45P-2:00P      TR      GA 0009     Prof. Estela Vieira

Note: Above class meets with HISP-P 570

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