A. S. Byatt and aging

28 Abril 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

A.S. Byatt, “Medusa's ankles,” in The Matisse Stories:

growing old as a woman – theme and problem.

Oral presentation by one student.

Reading Assignment:

- Byatt, A. S. (1992) “Medusa’s Ankles,” in The Matisse Stories. London: Vintage.*

- Baars, Jan. (2012) Aging and the Art of Living. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Introducing visual literacy and close reading of film stills

21 Abril 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Introducing visual literacy as an application of close reading to film stills.

Close reading of the Still Alice slide.

Free writing to the prompt "Looking straight ahead ...."

NB: A aula foi lecionada pela Prof.ª Drª Cecília Beecher Martins, devido à ausência da docente no estrangeiro (com equiparação a Bolseira).

Deborah Davis, Strapless (2004) and John Singer Sargent

7 Abril 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Deborah Davis, Strapless (2004) – John Singer Sargent, Decadence and the fin-de-siècle, and the fear of old age and death.

An overview of the work and career of John Singer Sargent. The importance of Madame X in his career. The impact of the painting's reception on the sitter's reputation and further life, as described in the book by Davis.

Reading Assignments:

- Davis, Deborah.  (2004) Strapless. New York: Tarcher / Penguin.*

The Pre-Raphaelites

31 Março 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

The Pre-Raphaelites – Painters in love with death: examples from poetry and painting.

Oral presentation of a work in progress on Pre-raphaelite Women artists by one of the students.

Reading Assignment:

Hares-Stryker, Carolyn. (1997) An Anthology of Pre-Raphaelite Writings. Sheffield: Academic Press.

D. H. Lawrence: as writer and painter

24 Março 2017, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

D. H. Lawrence: the beginning - Sons and Lovers – Oedipus complex and the death of the mother: euthanasia?

D. H. Lawrence: tuberculosis and the proximity of death - “The Ship of Death” (1929).

Reading Assignments:

- Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers. (1913) Harmondsworth: Penguin.

- Freud, Sigmund, “The Most Prevalent Form of Degradation in Erotic Life” (1912), in D. H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers: Text, Background and Criticism, ed. Julian Moynahan. New York: The Viking Press, 1968 (rpt. 1976), 498-510.

- Lawrence, D. H. The Flying Fish (1925) in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, ed. and introd. Edward D. McDonald. London: Heinemann, 1936, 780-98.

- Lawrence, D. H. “The Ship of Death” (1929) in The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence – Vol. I, coll., ed. and introd. Vivian De Sola Pinto and Warren Roberts, London: Heinemann, 1972, 716-20.