Sumários

Final presentations

2 Junho 2017, 10:00 Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Final oral presentations.

Mariana Loureiro's presentation on William Hogarth's art.


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.*


No classes

12 Maio 2017, 10:00 Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

No classes


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.