Sumários
The concept of time in modern times
17 Outubro 2023, 11:00 • Joana Matos Frias
Readings of Saint Augustine's Confessions and of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets: the perception of time as a subjective question. Effects and consequences in the understanding of literary history, with reference to Eliot's 1919 essay "Tradition and the individual talent". The temporal and the timeless: variations.
The modern artist according to Baudelaire III
10 Outubro 2023, 11:00 • Joana Matos Frias
From movement and speed to the perception of change. Paris change: progress and technical problems. The importance of the present (time, tense).
The modern artist according to Baudelaire II
3 Outubro 2023, 11:00 • Joana Matos Frias
Modern forms of attention and the importance of movement and speed: the artist as a walker and the depicting of carriages.
The modern artist according to Baudelaire
26 Setembro 2023, 11:00 • Joana Matos Frias
The Painter of Modern Life: man of the world, man of crowds, child. With special reference to Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Man of the Crowd.
Some versions of modernity
19 Setembro 2023, 11:00 • Joana Matos Frias
Modern literature(s) according to E. R. Curtius, H. U. Gumbrecht, Octavio Paz, M. Calinescu and Antoine Compagnon: a detailed comment on the course's bibliography and its most important arguments.