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Lost Horizon and Nora Webster

2 Abril 2019, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Continued screening of Lost Horizon and discussion of the themes presented in Nora Webster. 

The arts influencing one another

28 Março 2019, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

The interconnection between different art forms is well known and discussed but Colm Tóibín offers an excellent example of how he as a writer uses other art forms to introduce new directions to his writing. In Nora Webster he uses 2 films to introduce other perspectives to the story that he is developing - George Cukor's Gaslight  and Frank Capra's New Horizon. We discussed the elements that Gaslight could have introduced and we read the sections on New Horizon in preparation for the viewing of this film. Began viewing  Frank Capra's  New Horizon. 

Close reading of literary texts

26 Março 2019, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Applied close reading techniques to the following texts:

The short stories "Ripe Figs" and "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and the poem "The Baloon of the Mind" by W.B. Yeats

Discussion of Hermeneutical Injustice and how contact with the arts in particular cinema and literature may overcome hermeneutic lacunas

21 Março 2019, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students presented chapter 7 Hermeneutical Injustice of Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice: Power and Ethics of Knowing. 

Class discussion of the chapter and how the arts in particular cinema and literature may overcome hermeneutic lacunas - illustration of how George Cukor's Gaslight (1944) offered an illustration of a phenonena - emotiional manipulation - can be illustrated in a film and even then go on to give a name to the phenomena, in this case gaslighting.

Discussion of how Testamonial and Hermeneutical Injustice fit together. 

I have sent the Powerpoint presentations used to illustrate these points to students' campus emails. 

Students must submit a printed copy of  their first essay ( a technical or theoretical analysis of one of the three films viewed The Talented Mr. Ripley, Black Women in Medicine and Gaslight) at the next class on 26th March. 

Continued viewing and discussion of George Cuckor's Gaslight (1944)

19 Março 2019, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Continued viewing and discussion of George Cuckor's Gaslight (1944).


Also discussion of students' essay layout.