Sumários

Andrea Levy's 'Uriah's War' (2014)

21 Novembro 2019, 15:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Andrea Levy's 'Uriah's War' (2014)


Andrew Motion, The Cinder Path (2009)

14 Novembro 2019, 15:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Andrew Motion, The Cinder Path (2009).
The five 'Harry Patch' poems.

After silence, poetry again.
Beginnings and endings.

Elegies and other poems.

Revisting war and memory.


Julian Barnes's short fiction 'Evermore' (1995)

7 Novembro 2019, 15:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Julian Barnes short fiction 'Evermore' (1995)


Pat Barker's Regeneration (1991)

31 Outubro 2019, 15:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Pat Barker's Regeneration (1991).


Revisiting (very) tough myths.

The Great War and postmodern memory.

Trauma and silence.

History, fiction, identity.

The 'memory boom' - Jay Winter, 2006 and the writing of (war) fiction.


Woolf and her refusal of former narrative conventions.

24 Outubro 2019, 15:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Jacob's Room as a groundbreaking fictional text in October 1922.

Woolf and her refusal of former narrative conventions.

Modernisms and the challenges of the new.

Heroism and the common man?