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

3 Novembro 2020, 09:30 • 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

'The Dead' - Joyce revisiting the Irish social short story tradition and bringing in narrative techniques the Modernists were refining and privileging

2 Novembro 2020, 09:30 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


'The Dead' - Joyce revisiting the Irish social short story tradition and bringing in narrative techniques the Modernists were refining and privileging.


Epiphany, 'narrated monologue' or free indirect discourse as well as the use of the more traditional narrator to present the characters and social atmosphere. The attention to detail in a long short story.

Symbols and the awareness and eventual acceptance of the life / death indissoluble relation.

Introducing central aspects of English modernist short fiction. Joyce and 'The Dead'

27 Outubro 2020, 11:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Introducing central aspects of English modernist short fiction. 


Some aspects of the tradition of the short story with particular reference to Poe's 'definition' of the 'short prose narrative'.
Modernist techniques as developed by decisive modernist short story writers. 

Joyce and 'The Dead'.

Introducing central aspects of English modernist short fiction. Joyce and 'The Dead'

27 Outubro 2020, 09:30 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Introducing central aspects of English modernist short fiction. 


Some aspects of the tradition of the short story with particular reference to Poe's 'definition' of the 'short prose narrative'.
Modernist techniques as developed by decisive modernist short story writers. 

Joyce and 'The Dead'.

Wilfred Owen - the 1st World War and a new poetic diction

26 Outubro 2020, 09:30 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora


Wilfred Owen - the 1st World War and a new poetic diction.


Reading and rereading 'Strange Meeting' with some other poems by Owen and his posthumous Preface.