Essay / Test

Dear students, I hope you are well, enjoying the Christmas break with your friends and family.

This is a reminder that the second version of
your essay is due on January 9 2017, at ICA (Instituto de Cultura Americana), between 2 and 4 pm
and
the consultation test takes place on January 12, at room 2.1., between 10 and 12 am (with an extra 30 minutes).

Light in our hearts *

Saint Louis Blues

Read more about this classic here — "St Louis Blues: story of the WC Handy classic son," Martin Chilton.

Jacob Lawrence_Migration Series

 "In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Lawrence’s work is a landmark in the history of modern art and a key example of the way that history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era. Explore the social and cultural nuances of each of the sixty panels in Lawrence’s series here."

WCW

documentary about William Carlos Williams here

Alma López_'Our Lady'

 Alma López, Our Lady (1999)

more info about the work here. Recall that we established an intersemiotic dialogue between this image and Amy Lowell's poem “Madonna of the Evening Flowers.”

Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976)

 Image here (where you'll also find articles on the artist)

The scope of I. Cunningham's legacy — article here 
Go for a virtual tour on Imogen Cunningham Trust

Georgia O'Keeffe

Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow (1923)

"Flowers or vaginas? Georgia O’Keeffe Tate show to challenge sexual cliches," Hannah Ellis-Peterson, read the article here

Go for a virtual tour on Georgia O'Keeffe's Museum 

"Leda and the Swan"_Yeats

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
                    Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

   Peter Paul Rubens (16th c. copy of a Michelangelo's lost painting)

E. Bishop_“Visits to St. Elizabeth’s”

 Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

“Visits to St. Elizabeth’s”

This is the house of Bedlam.

This is the man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is the time

of the tragic man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is a wristwatch

telling the time

of the talkative man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is a sailor

wearing the watch

that tells the time

of the honored man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is the roadstead all of board

reached by the sailor

wearing the watch

that tells the time

of the old, brave man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

These are the years and the walls of the ward,

the winds and clouds of the sea of board

sailed by the sailor

wearing the watch

that tells the time

of the cranky man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is a Jew in a newspaper hat

that dances weeping down the ward

over the creaking sea of board

beyond the sailor

winding his watch

that tells the time

of the cruel man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is a world of books gone flat.

This is a Jew in a newspaper hat

that dances weeping down the ward

over the creaking sea of board

of the batty sailor

that winds his watch

that tells the time

of the busy man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is a boy that pats the floor

to see if the world is there, is flat,

for the widowed Jew in the newspaper hat

that dances weeping down the ward

waltzing the length of a weaving board

by the silent sailor

that hears his watch

that ticks the time

of the tedious man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

These are the years and the walls and the door

that shut on a boy that pats the floor

to feel if the world is there and flat.

This is a Jew in a newspaper hat

that dances joyfully down the ward

into the parting seas of board

past the staring sailor

that shakes his watch

that tells the time

of the poet, the man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

This is the soldier home from the war.

These are the years and the walls and the door

that shut on a boy that pats the floor

to see if the world is round or flat.

This is a Jew in a newspaper hat

that dances carefully down the ward,

walking the plank of a coffin board

with the crazy sailor

that shows his watch

that tells the time

of the wretched man

that lies in the house of Bedlam.

Source

This poem relates Bishop's visit to Pound while he was at the insane asylum St. Elizabeth's.

How does it illustrate Pound's imagist principles? 

What does it tell us about Pound's biographical circumstances? 

M.V. Gato_"Agosto"

 Margarida Vale de Gato (1973-)

"Agosto"

Agosto sim, rigoroso Thomas,
é o mais fácil mês para ficar louca;
perdem os corpos pela roupa pouca
com frequência a pele e arde atrás

crudelíssimo o sol, isto se estás
há muito insone e sentes seca a boca
enquanto aos outros nus assiste a troca
escura e táctil que a febre satisfaz

e justifica. De resto, as sombras
foram todas tomadas por casais
como deve de ser. E já a mim

sequer a lua ou um leque cobrem.
Não chega amor na noite de chacais
e melgas. Escrever ainda assim.

M. V. Gato lê o poema aqui

Neste poema M. V. Gato interpela diretamente T. S. Eliot, reescrevendo o primeiro verso de "The Waste Land". Que outros tópicos unem os dois textos?

Picasso_Guernica

 

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Guernica. 

1937 (May 1st-June 4th, Paris). Oil on canvas (349,3 x 776,6 cm).

Source and more info here

In what ways does this mural relate to Eliot's "The Waste Land"?

"The Waste Land"_ver e ouvir

Na última aula, vimos a incrível interpretação que Fiona Shaw faz deste poema, inspirando novas possibilidades de leitura. Aconselho-vos a escutar e ver de novo este vídeo. 

Em contraponto, deixo ainda a versão do T. S. Eliot.

Calendário 5_apenas com alterações

 21 outubro

T.S.Eliot 

Ana Mota, João Esteves, José Pinto 

11 novembro

Apresentações orais 

sobre H. D.

David Mira, Inês Furtado, João Gabriel

e Wallace Stevens

Joana, Inês Morais, Mandala Rivière

Luís Martins, Marco Monteiro, Xavier Miranda

16 novembro

W. Stevens

Intervenção 3 / Pedro Mexia

Calendário 4_final

No calendário apresentado no nosso primeiro dia de aulas, a 21 de setembro, estava explicitado que os grupos deveriam ser constituídos e os autores escolhidos até ao dia 30 de setembro. Tendo esse prazo sido há muito ultrapassado, dou por concluído este processo. Amanhã na aula trataremos das questões relativas a estes três últimos grupos para encerramos a calendarização.

Os alunos que até agora não me contactaram para acordar as condições de realização deste trabalho não poderão realizar este elemento de avaliação.

 

Diana V. Almeida

modernistlit.flul@gmail.com

Ana Mota, João Esteves, José Pinto / Eliot ou Stevens

Luís Martins, Marco Monteiro, Xavier Miranda / Eliot ou Stevens

Miguel Maltez, Rahim Juma ? / Hurston

Setembro

21

Apresentação da docente e dos alunos. Métodos de trabalho e blogue da cadeira. Programa e bibliografia. Calendário e sistema de avaliação

23

Trabalho de tutoria — Análise escrita do poema “The Grass”, Carl Sandburg

28

Martha C. Nussbaum. “Cultivating Imagination: Literature and the Arts”, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010, 95-120.

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/martha-nuusbaum.html

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/martha-nussbaum-2.html

Entrega da análise de “The Grass”

30

Análise de “The Grass”, Carl Sandburg

Intervenção 1 / Manuel Campos Almeida

Impacto sociopolítico das duas guerras mundiais no séc. XX

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/09/history20th-c-world-wars.html

Outubro

7

Willa Cather (1873-1943)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/willa-cather.html

“Flavia and her Artists”

http://www.online-literature.com/willa-cather/1588/

Gilbert, Sandra M., Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. “The Queen's Looking Glass: Female Creativity, Male Images of Women, and the Metaphor of Literary Paternity."

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/09/the-madwoman-in-attic.html

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/09/misogyny-and-racism1900-1945-and-beyond.html

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/09/topicsinfeminism.html

12

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/robert-frost.html

“The Pasture”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22272

“The Road Not Taken”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15717

“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42891

“Mending Wall”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15719

“Nothing Gold Can Stay”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19977

Ana Reis, Matilde Gouveia, Ruben Pinto

14

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/tseliot.html

“Tradition and the Individual Talent”

http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html

19

“The Waste Land”

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html

Eduardo Jesus, Daniela Silva e Sofia Gavancho

21

“The Waste Land”

26

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/ezra-pound.html

“A Few Don’ts by an Imagist”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/article/335

“The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15425

“A Pact”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-pact/

“Statement of Being”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/statement-of-being/

“And the Days Are Not Full Enough”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/and-the-days-are-not-full-enough/

“In a Station of the Metro”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15421

“A Girl”

 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-girl/

“Further Instructions”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/ezrapound/16152

Francisco Cardoso, Joana Geraldo, Thomas Filipe

28

H. D. (1886-1961)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/hd.html

“Helen”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/helen

“Leda”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177449

“Eurydice”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182485

“Orchard”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22581

“Oread”

 http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21295

“Sea Poppies”

 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177768

“Sea Rose”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22957

“Song”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-201/

Intervenção 2 / Marta Soares

1ª versão ensaio

Novembro

2

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/amy-lowell.html

“The Poet’s Trade”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16037

“The Sisters”

http://poetry.about.com/od/poemsbytitles/l/bllowellsisters.htm

“A Lover”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lover-4/

“The Bath”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42993

“Madonna of the Evening Flowers”

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/poem1/blp_lowell_madonna.htm

“Venus Transiens”

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/2286

“Penumbra”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42989

Andreia Santos, Catarina Coelho, Joana Janeiro

4

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/marianne-moore.html

“Poetry”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poetry/

“Silence”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/silence-2

“Soujourn in the Whale”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/sojourn-whale

“To a Steam Roller”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/steam-roller

“Black Earth”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51565

“Roses Only”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/roses-only/

Inês Damas, Pedro Simões, e Rodrigo Melo

9

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/william-carlos-william.html

“This Is Just to Say”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/just-say

“The Red Wheelbarrow”

 https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/red-wheelbarrow

“To a Poor Old Woman”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/51653#poem

 “The Young Housewife”

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/williams/1046

“A Sort of Song”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-sort-of-a-song/

“A Love Song”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/love-song

 “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15828

“The Great Figure”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19475

Abdulkadir Pamuk, Abdulhamid Dogan, Ensar Dereli

11

Wallace Stevens

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/09/wallace-stevens.html

“The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57607

“The Idea of Order at Key West”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43431

“The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57500

“Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52143

“The Man with the Blue Guitar”

https://www.google.pt/search?q=wallace+stevens%2C+%22the+man+with+the+blue+guitar%22+full+text&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=vRXcV-z4K86p8we8hJXQAQ#

Intervenção 3 / Pedro Mexia

16

H. D.

David Mira, Inês Furtado, João Gabriel

Stevens

Joana, Inês Morais, Mandala Rivière

18

Feedback sobre a primeira versão dos ensaios

23

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/ernest-hemingway.html

“Hills Like White Elephants”

https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Readings/139.105/Additional/Hills%20Like%20White%20Elephants%20-%20Ernest%20Hemingway.pdf

Ana Rita Pires, Pedro Henriques, Viviana Câmara

25

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/langston-hughes.html

“I, Too”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/i-too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiCWngPt-L4&feature=related

[Walt Whitman “I Hear America Singing”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752]

“Let America Be America Again”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/negro-speaks-rivers

“Madam and her Madam”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/madam-and-her-madam

“Po’ Boy Blues”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15608

“Life Is Fine”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15611

“Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16422

“Advertisement for the Waldorf Astoria”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/advertisement-for-the-waldorf-astoria/

“Democracy”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/democracy/

Inês Lemos, Daniel Anastácio e Andreia Pereira

30

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/zora-neale-hurston.html

“How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/theireyesessay.htm

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Ana Soares, Beatriz Narciso, Joana Dias

Dezembro

2

Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Miguel Maltez, Rahim Juma ?

7

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/william-faulkner.html

“That Evening Sun”

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/white/anthology/faulkner.html

Joana Pereira, Carolina Vaz Pinto, Frederico Figueira

9

Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/eudora-welty.html

The Golden Apples, “June Recital”

Ana Beatriz Pinto, João Zeferino, Marta Dinis

2ª versão ensaio

14

Welty

The Golden Apples, “The Wanderers”

Catarina Jesus, Mariana Lemos, Mariana Rocha

16

Revisão dos conteúdos programáticos e esclarecimento de dúvidas

12 Janeiro

Teste

Avaliação

Presenças – 5%

Participação e exercícios escritos – 15%

Apresentação oral – 20%

Ensaio — 30%

Teste escrito – 30%

1. Presenças

Contabilizadas em todas as aulas. Independentemente da assiduidade, os trabalhadores estudantes terão metade das presenças atribuídas.

Durante as aulas, o computador e o telemóvel devem ser utilizados apenas para realizar pesquisas relativas ao trabalho em curso e por indicação explícita da professora.

2. Participação

Na aula, competência de leitura e discussão dos materiais bibliográficos propostos. No blogue da disciplina (com posts, comentários e sugestões de leitura dos textos).

modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt

Dados de acesso: modernistlit.flul1@gmail.com / faculdadeletras

Na última aula, tragam uma listagem dos vossos posts [vão anotando à medida que os fazem], para serem considerados na totalidade, no processo de avaliação.

3. Apresentação oral

Em grupo de 3 alunos, preparar a análise de um dos textos indicados no calendário e apresentar o resultado da pesquisa na aula. 10 minutos

Selecionar o/a autor/a até ao dia 30 de setembro — enviar um email para modernistlit.flul@gmail.com, com os endereços de todos os colegas do grupo em Cc.

4. Ensaio

Escolher um/a autora [diferente do/a eleito/a para a apresentação oral] e aprofundar a leitura de um dos seus textos.

1ª versão — 28 outubro

2ª versão — 9 dezembro

Máximo 5 páginas A4 (sem alterar margens predefinidas pelo Word), letra 12, espaço 1,5. O trabalho deve ser entregue em mão impresso.

Ler “How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay” (na reprografia).

Se optarem por escrever o vosso ensaio em Inglês, considerem recorrer ao WILL Lab [Writing, Innovation, Learning & Language Laboratory] para terem feedback personalizado sobre o vosso trabalho.

5. Teste

Teste escrito com consulta de material impresso — caderno de apontamentos, livros, fotocópias...

    janeiro — 2h (com meia hora de tolerância)

Os trabalhos devem ser entregues/apresentados nas datas propostas. Não são aceites elementos de avaliação fora dos prazos inicialmente acordados. A nota final é calculada a partir da fórmula acima apresentada, os trabalhos não entregues correspondem a zero.

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