Professor Sabrina Karpa-Wilson
email: skarpawi@indiana.edu

P500	Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World I

TR 1:00pm – 2:15 pm/section #24870/3 cr./Ballantine Hall 242

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).

This class is offered jointly with Hisp P400 and P498.