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Revisting some of the former questions for the test. George Orwell and 'Shooting an Elephant' (1936)

16 Novembro 2020, 09:30 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora



Revisting some of the former questions for the test. 


George Orwell and 'Shooting an Elephant' (1936) - his awareness of the Empire's decay. 
Issues of ethical consciousness and political choice in Orwell. 


Concluding the introduction to modernist short fiction as written by Katherine Mansfield -'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' (1920).

10 Novembro 2020, 11:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora



Concluding the introduction to modernist short fiction as written by Katherine Mansfield -'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' (1920).

Narrative techniques and the short story's episodic structure. Free indirect speech, symbolism, life as 'tragicomedy'.


Concluding the introduction to modernist short fiction as written by Katherine Mansfield -'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' (1920).

10 Novembro 2020, 09:30 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Concluding the introduction to modernist short fiction as written by Katherine Mansfield -'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' (1920).
Narrative techniques and the short story's episodic structure. Free indirect speech, symbolism, life as 'tragicomedy'.


Modernist short fiction as written by Katherine Mansfield. 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' (1920))

9 Novembro 2020, 09:30 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Modernist short fiction as written by Katherine Mansfield -'The Daughters of the Late Colonel' (1920).


Narrative techniques and the short story's episodic structure. Free indirect speech, symbolism, life as 'tragicomedy'.



Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall' (1917) - reality, both solid and fleeting reality...

3 Novembro 2020, 11:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall' (1917) - reality, both solid and fleeting reality...

1st person narrator, digressions and daydreaming. 
Reflections on the ephemerous nature of life, on the solidity of surfaces and the disturbing absence of proper tools for accessing the real