HISP-P 498 Portuguese Honors Seminar (3 credits)  AUTHORIZED

This course is for majors who are doing Honors in Portuguese.  This
P498, section 6287, meets with P400, Literatures in the Portuguese-
Speaking World I.   See description for P400, section 24689 below.

Description:
P400 is the first semester of a two-semester introduction to the
literatures of the Portuguese-speaking world.  In the first semester
we will focus on the literatures of Portugal and Brazil, from the
12th to the 19th century.  The purpose of the course is not to
present an exhaustive chronological survey, but to introduce
students to some of the major texts and themes of Luso-Brazilian
literature through the careful reading of representative poetic,
narrative and dramatic works.  Texts and themes we will consider
include: love, satire and the grotesque in medieval Galician-
Portuguese poetry, farce and social commentary in the 16th-century
theater of Gil Vicente, visions of Portuguese grandeur and decadence
in Luís de Camões epic poetry, the rhetoric of excess in Padre
Antônio Vieira’s Baroque sermons, and the use and abuse of history
in Romantic theater and poetry.

Requirements:
All students will be required to take a midterm and a final exam.
They will also write a paper on a topic to be discussed with the
instructor (undergraduates: 8-10 pages; graduate students: 15 pages).

HISP-P 498  6287  1:00P-2:15P  TR   BH242 Dr. Sabrina Karpa-Wilson