Sumários

Cinema and modern literature

20 Dezembro 2023, 15:30 Joana Matos Frias

A brief comment on movies such as Manhatta' (dir. Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler), Man with a Movie Camera (dir. Dziga Vertov), and Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang): urban life, camera movements, and the major principles of editing and montage. 


The art of the novel

19 Dezembro 2023, 14:00 Joana Matos Frias

The art of the novel as a great question of modern literatures: a comment on some of Milan Kundera's claims.


Defences of poetry II

12 Dezembro 2023, 11:00 Joana Matos Frias

Taste, imagination, empathy and art for art sake in Victor Hugo, Shelley and Théophile Gautier. 


Defences of poetry

5 Dezembro 2023, 11:00 Joana Matos Frias

The act of defence as a major question of modern literatures: historical grounds, romantic context, famous examples.

The special cases of Victor Hugo's, Théophile Gautier's and Shelley's forewords and essays: the historical process of poetry and its aesthetical movement.


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28 Novembro 2023, 11:00 Joana Matos Frias

Teacher on medical leave.