Sumários

Meeting with students.

16 Dezembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Meeting with students.


Second written test.

14 Dezembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Second written test.


Taking stock.

9 Dezembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Taking stock: from technicalities (who tells; who sees) to the impact of such aesthetic choices on readers and viewers; identifying recurrences and changes from pre- to post-independence Ireland: intersections between history and story; the political and the personal; how to access a silenced and unknown past.


Twenty-first century Short story: Anne Enright and Sally Rooney.

7 Dezembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Conclusion of students' presentation on Anne Enright, “Three Stories About Love”, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, ed. Sinéad Gleeson, 2015: discussion of each of the stories and the narrative arc they represent.

2. Student's presentation on Sally Rooney, “Robbie Brady’s Astonishing Late Goal Takes its Place in our Personal Histories”, in The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories, ed. Sinéad Gleeson, London: Head of Zeus, 2020, pp. 673-678: discussion of the story's aesthetics and ethics.


Twenty-first century short story: Lucy Caldwell and Anne Enright.

2 Dezembro 2021, 12:30 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Students' presentation on Lucy Caldwell, “Mayday”, Intimacies: Eleven More Stories, London: Faber and Faber, 2021, pp. 10-20: historical backdrop on abortion in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; the short story as a narrative form; "Mayday": how it approaches such a sensitive topic as abortion; discussion.

2. Students' presentation on Anne Enright, “Three Stories About Love”, The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, ed. Sinéad Gleeson, 2015: introduction to the author and her work; historical backdrop to the story: Celtic Tiger Ireland (ca. 1992-2008); 2008 Financial Crash and emigration.