tutorials

2 Maio 2024, 11:00 • Ângela Fernandes

Tutorials about Paper 1: individual conversations and advice about the research proposals.

All students will present orally their work in progress to the group in two seminar sessions taking place on the 9th May and on the 16th May (10.30-14.00, room B112.C, at the library building).

The final paper is due by the 7^th June 2024 (online at the e-learning platform, and in paper).

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18 Abril 2024, 11:00 • Ângela Fernandes

There was no class: the Professor was participating in a conference at the University of the Basque Country – Bilbao

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Coetzee, Kavafis and Montaigne

11 Abril 2024, 11:00 • Ângela Fernandes

The representation of the “barbarians” in the novel by Coetzee, in the poem “Waiting for the barbarians" by Kavafis, and in the essay “Of Cannibals”, by Michel de Montaigne: the role of the “other” in identity building, and the dilemmas arising from experiencing different points of view.

Students handed in Paper 1 (written summary of their research proposal).

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Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee

4 Abril 2024, 11:00 • Ângela Fernandes

Group discussion about the second written exercises (corrected and assessed) and about the research proposals to the final essay presented by each student.

The novel Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee: the narrative structure and the representation of a colonial /imperial perspective.

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Clarice Lispector: accepting the mystery

21 Março 2024, 11:00 • Ângela Fernandes

Lecture by Prof. Alva Martínez Teixeiro on the literary work by Clarice Lispector: life and writing as mysterious processes, against over-interpretation; the short-story “The crime of the mathematics professor” and the uncertain boundaries between human and animal.

Second written exercise in class.

 

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