Sumários

Jean Rhys and 'The Day they Burned the Books' (1960). The emergence of a new awareness of English literature and what is left of the Empire. Caryl Phillips 'Growing Pains' (2009)

10 Dezembro 2018, 10:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Concluding the reading of Jean Rhys and 'The Day they Burned the Books' (1960). 


The emergence of a new awareness of English literature and what is left of the Empire. Caryl Phillips 'Growing Pains' (2009)

Concluding the reading of 'Church Going' (1954). And a completely different writer, Jean Rhys and 'The Day they Burned the Books' (1960)

5 Dezembro 2018, 10:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Concluding the reading of 'Church Going' (1954). 


And a completely different writer, Jean Rhys and 'The Day they Burned the Books' (1960) - a diverse awareness of imperialism paving the way for yet another approach at contemporary reality and writing  issues.

Douglas and after. New Writing. Philip Larkin and 'Church Going' (1954)

3 Dezembro 2018, 10:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Douglas and after. 


New Writing. 

Philip Larkin and 'Church Going' (1954)

Keith Douglas and a new War poetry. 'Vergissmeinnicht' (1934, publ. 1944)

28 Novembro 2018, 10:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Keith Douglas and a new war poetry. 'Vergissmeinnicht' (1934, publ. 1944).


Distance and new writing for a new war. Against sentimentalism, issues of literary and personal self-awareness.
Reading of extracts from his Letters and of 'How to Kill' (1943).

The period between the wars. Woolf from A Room of One's Own (1929) to Three Guineas (1938)

26 Novembro 2018, 10:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

The period between the wars. 


Woolf from A Room of One's Own (1929) to Three Guineas (1938). From moderation to radicalism. Writing, politics and gender issues.