Sumários

25 Janeiro 2024, 08:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

An introduction was made to the text by Susan Sontag (1972) "The Double Standard of Aging". The following themes were discussed:

- Simone de Beauvoir and her Second Sex: the secondary role women have played in relation to men

- Virginia Woolf and "A Room of One's own"

- The social changes of the 1970's

The students must proceed with the reading of "The Double Standard of Aging". Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" (chapter I) should also be read:

23 Janeiro 2024, 08:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

Seminário em Estudos Ingleses

2024

FLUL

Docente: Zuzanna Zarebska

zuzanna.sanches@campus.ul.pt

Programa.

1. “The Double Standard of Ageing.” Susan Sontag

2. Aged by Culture Margaret Gullette

3. “Representations of Ageing. Images and Identities.” Fragments. Viripi Vlanne

4. “The Danger of a Single Story.” Chimamanda Adichie

5. “Last” Fire. Ali Smith

6. “Avó Lives Alone.” Emanuel Melo

7. “Teach yourself Italian.” Jhumpa Lahiri

8. The Diaries of Jane Sommers. Fragments. Doris Lessing

9. Ammonities and Leapign Fish. A Life in Time. Fragments. Penelope Lively.

10. “My father addresses me on the facts of Old Age.” Grace Paley

11. “Sing to it.” Amy Hempel

Assessment

1 Written assignment/progress 20%

1 Final essay 40%

1 Oral assessment/defense 40%

Adichie, Chimamanda. “The Danger of a Single Story.” https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

Lessing, Doris. The Diaries of Jane Sommers. Harper-Collins: Flamingo. 2002.

Rushdie, Salman. Languages of Truth. Essays 2003-2020. Jonathan Cape. 2005.

Smith, Ali. “Last.” Fire. London: Oxfam Publishing. 2006

Melo, Emanuel. “Avó Lives Alone.” Submitted by the teacher.