Sumários

Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These, 2021.

29 Novembro 2023, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Oral presentations on Small Things Like These.

Further discussion on the novel: how it engages with the past; the ethical dilemmas that it represents; how its narrative options impact on the reader.


Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These, 2021.

27 Novembro 2023, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Historical backdrop: the Magdalen laundries:

Oral presentations on Peter Mullan, dir., The Magdalen Sisters, 2002.

Eavan Boland, Poems.

22 Novembro 2023, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Oral presentation on "Quarantine";

Further discussion on Boland's engagement with the personal and collective past (“Mise Éire”, The Journey, 1987; "Lava Cameo", In a Time of Violence, 1994).

Eavan Boland, Poems.

20 Novembro 2023, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Introduction to the author's work and its literary and historical backdrop: gender, authorship and representation.

Oral presentations on Boland’s poems: "This Moment"; "Pomegranate".

Seamus Heaney: Poems (2).

15 Novembro 2023, 15:30 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Oral presentations on "Punishment", North, 1975; "Had I Been Awake" and "Human Chain", Human Chain, 2013.