Sumários
Final presentations
2 Junho 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes
Final oral presentations.
trauma in ficiton and painting
26 Maio 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes
Sue Hubbard, “Mona Lisa” and “Jackson Pollok’s Curtains,” in Rothko’s Red and Other Stories (2008): two stories on trauma and painting.
AleksandraStokohiel's oral presentation on Mark Rothko's painting and philosophy.
Reading Assignments:
- Hubbard, Sue. (2008) “Mona Lisa” and “Jackson Pollok’s Curtains,” in Rothko’s Red and Other Stories. Cambridge: Salt Publishing. *
- Caruth, Cathy. (1996) Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Frank, Arthur W. (1995) The Wounded Storyteller. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press, 2013.
Bright disease in painting and fiction
19 Maio 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes
Harriet Scott Chessman, Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper (2001): Mary Cassatt and a case of Bright disease, as documented in feminine painting and writing.
Luís Silva's oral presentation on the same.
Reading Assignment:
- Chessman, Harriet Scott, (2002) Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper. New York: Plume.*
A. S. Byatt and anorexia
5 Maio 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes
A.S. Byatt, “The Chinese Lobster,” in The Matisse Stories: a story of anorexia.
Reading Assignments:
- Byatt, A. S. (1992) “The Chinese Lobster,” in The Matisse Stories. London: Vintage.*
- Ellmann, Maud. (1993) The Hunger Artists: Starving, Writing & Imprisonment. London: Virago Press.