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.