POR 410 - E?a de Queir

3 credits G
Prerequisites: POR 331, 332; or consent of instructor
Study of the major works of the foremost Portuguese novelist of the nineteenth century. Examination of the aesthetic and ideological significance of E?a’s works. The analysis of his works as a critical response to European literature and philosophy, and specific authors of the Portuguese and Spanish tradition. Discussion of themes such as the relation between nature and culture, language and reality, technology and man, the past and historiography, and Portuguese nineteenth century society.