Sumários

Rebecca West

1 Outubro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier (1918)


- War combatants and civilians. 
- Differently gendered experiences.
- Heroism and the common man?
- Shell shock, individual trauma, social and cultural impact of the First World War.
- Narrative techniques – fictional (attempts at) representation in the context of Modernism(s).

The representation of the First World War - issues of technique, ethical issues, issues of personal and collective memory. The myth of English First World War poetry and some of its narrative treatments.

24 Setembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

The representation of the First World War 

- issues of technique, ethical issues, issues of personal and collective memory. 
The myth of English First World War poetry and some of its narrative treatments during and near the war - West, Hamilton, Woolf (1918, 1919, 1922).

Special attention devoted to the conversation edited by Santanu Das in The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War - (cf this Seminar's Programme ).

Discussing some of the questions addressed in Luísa Maria Flora's essay published in Etudes Brittaniques Contemporaines (2008) - (cf this Seminar's Programme).





Note 1: Most students already have access to the whole mandatory reading list. 
Some students still have no access to the card that allows them to use the Main Library as well as the Electronic Resources.

Introducing the Programme

17 Setembro 2020, 14:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Introducing the Programme of the Seminar, its goals and criteria.
Revisiting the objectives as laid out in the seminar's Abstract.
The issues of the representation of war as addressed in both texts from the period of the Great War (fictions of 1918, 1919 and 1922) and more recent approaches (in 1991, 1995, 2009 and 2014).Issues of heroism and issues of its literary representation.

A few poems of the First World War were read to the students as a brief Introductory approach to next week's Seminar. 


NOTE:
1. Copies of the Seminar Plan and of 4 different essays are available at Reprografia Verde.
2. One of the MA students is still not registered in Fénix.