Sumários

Oral presentation of the essay on Lewis Yealland, his treatment of shell shock and its representation in Barker's Regeneration. Research issues.

10 Dezembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Oral presentation of the essay on Lewis Yealland, his treatment of shell shock and its representation in Barker's Regeneration.

Research issues.

Oral presentation on the Representation of female stereotypes in some of the fictions studied in the seminar. Oral presentation on film and the Great War with special reference to Sam Mendes's '1917'

3 Dezembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora



Oral presentation on the Representation of female stereotypes in some of the fictions studied in the seminar. 


Oral presentation on film and the Great War with special reference to Sam Mendes's '1917'.

Discussion in the group.

Billy Prior, toxic masculinity and the Regeneration Trilogy - a presentation followed by discussion. Research issues for the MA and PhD dissertations.

26 Novembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Billy Prior, toxic masculinity and the Regeneration Trilogy - a presentation followed by discussion. The presentation was made by Margarida Cupido Fonseca, MA English Literature whose dissertation (Dec.2019) focused on this particular issue.


Research issues for the MA and PhD dissertations.

Andrea Levy ' Uriah's War' (2014)

19 Novembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora



Andrea Levy ' Uriah's War' (2014)


Silence yet again and the timid rise of the (black) soldiers of the Empire (cf. again and among others, Santanu Das, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War, 2013).

History, Fiction, Identity / ies.

Andrew Motion and the 'Harry Patch' poems in The Cinder Path (2009)

12 Novembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Andrew Motion and the 'Harry Patch' poems in The Cinder Path  (2009)

Silence, poetry again.

Beginnings and Endings.
Dealing with memory, trauma, remembrance and public history.