Discussion of set questions on novel Nora Webster

28 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Reading and discussion - students presented their readings of set questions in the manual on Nora Webster

Preparation for final longer assignment

23 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Discussed students' ideas individually with them. This was the culmination of an ongoing exchange of emails where students sent their ideas or more formal abstracts for reaction.

Presented the layout of the analysis they will have to do and students did the first introductory text in class, and we continued to discuss their ideas and questions as they did this.

The layout for final assignment can be seen below.

Layout for final film review

1. Introductory paragraph where you write your initial reasons for selecting the movie. You should do this before watching the movie again because often one is reacting to a memory of watching the film under particular circumstances. This will also help them to select specific connection points that they will later do their free associative film analysis to.

2. Introduction – technical details of the film

3. Brief plot summary/Description of mood and/or characters

4. Formal Analysis – following one of more of the perspectives presented by Timothy Corrigan: A Short Guide to Writing about Film – this to the whole movie.

5. Free Associative Analysis – to 2 or at the most 3 specific sections

6. Conclusion/Evaluation

7. Bibliography

Points 4&5 may be inter-spliced or presented sequentially. This is the author’s personal preference.

Layout for final literary review

1. Introductory paragraph where you write your initial reasons for selecting the book/play/movie/theme in a book. You should do this before reading the piece again because often one is reacting to a memory of reading a singular text under particular circumstances. This will also help to select specific connection points that you will later do your free associative literary analysis to (if applicable).

2. Identification of the piece and brief indication of where the position this plays/played in the author’s overall work

3. Formal introduction and situation of the relevance of the piece in literary history – the movement it belonged to etc.

4. Free Associative Analysis that can also move back to formal analysis as Holland does in his free associative film analysis

5. Conclusion

6. Bibliography

Layout for final song review

1. Introductory paragraph where you write their initial reasons for selecting the song. You should do this before listening to the piece again, or researching it because often one is reacting to a memory. This will also help to select specific connection points that you will later do your free associative literary analysis to.

2. Introduction – technical details about the song, the album, group, and platform released on.

3. Overview of response

4. Analysis

5. Free Associative Analysis

6. Conclusion/Evaluation

7. Bibliography

Attended open seminar and discussed corrected free associative film analysis

21 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

We attended the  “Representations of Home Open Seminar” organised by  CEAUL/ULICES (GI 4), given by Dr. Andreia Alves de Oliveira (www.andreiaoliveira.net) on the Persistent, Contradictory Feeling of “Home”.

Dr Oliveira is a photo-artist and researcher assoaciated with the University of London where she did her Phd. She is currently working on a project telling the stories of diferente generations of Portuguese emigrants in London through their interviews and her photos.The studente were very actively involed in the question and answer session after the seminar.

I also returned students' free associative film analysis and discussed the correction, in preparation for students' final assignment.

The purpose of the arts

16 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students presented their readings on why Tóbín used the films Gaslight and Lost Horizon in Nora Webster. 

Discussion of set novel Nora Webster

14 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students presented questions 3-6 in course manual  on Nora Webster.

Also submitted free associative analysis of Gaslight or review of Holland's analyses