Diana
V. Almeida
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell
them down and turn them into paper, /
That we may record our emptiness.”
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)
Calendar
and evaluation
September
20
Who
we are and what we’re going to do throughout the semester — syllabus, calendar,
evaluation proposal, and working strategies (blog)
22
How war shapes the first half of the 20th
century worldview
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967
“Grass”. Collective analysis and
individual written comment
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45034/grass-56d2245e2201c
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/09/history20th-c-world-wars.html
Writing a text analysis
27
The role of literature and
the arts in contemporary politics
Martha
C. Nussbaum (1947-)
“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
29
The emergence of the woman
artist in the patriarchal context
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/topicsinfeminism.html
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/09/misogyny-and-racism1900-1945-and-beyond.html
October
4
Daily landscape and the
search for transcendence
Robert
Frost (1874-1963)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/robert-frost.html
“The Pasture”
“The Road Not Taken”
“Stopping by the Woods on a
Snowy Evening”
“Mending Wall”
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Intervention Maria Inês Almeida (MA student, English Dept. FLUL)
6
Modernist poetry in
context
Howarth, P. “Why Write like This?” The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist
Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. 1-32.
11
Integrating the literary heritage in a
meaningless world
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/tseliot.html
“Tradition and the
Individual Talent”
“The Waste Land”
http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
13
“The Waste Land”
18
Working towards concision in the Eastern
pathway
Ezra
Pound (1885-1972)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/ezra-pound.html
“A Few Don’ts by an
Imagist”
“In a Station of the Metro”
“The River-Merchant’s Wife:
A Letter”
“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/
“Further Instructions”
http://www.bartleby.com/265/293.html
“A Girl”
20
Revising the Classical Myths from a female
perspective
H.
D. (1886-1961)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/hd.html
“Helen”
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/helen
“Leda”
“Eurydice”
“Orchard”
“Oread”
“Song”
25
From a New England
debutante to a queer poet
Amy
Lowell (1874-1925)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/amy-lowell.html
“The Poet’s Trade”
“The Sisters”
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/sisters-3
“A Lover”
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lover-4/
“The Bath”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42993
“Penumbra”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42989
27
The craft of rewriting and recontextualization
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/
November
3
The philosopher poet
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
Intervention Jeffrey Childs (Professor at Universidade Aberta)
8
Celebrating the commonplace
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/poems/51653/to-a-poor-old-woman#poem
“A
Sort of Song”
“A
Love Song”
“The Young Housewife”
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-young-housewife/
Turn in your essay
10
Dialogues between US modernist poetry and the
visual arts
“Sea
Poppies”, H.D.
“Sea
Rose”, H.D.
and
Georgia
O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
https://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/10/georgia-okeeffe.html
Imogen
Cunningham (1883-1976)
https://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/10/imogen-cunningham-1883-1976.html
“Madonna of the Evening
Flowers”,
Amy Lowell
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/madonna-of-the-evening-flowers/
and
Our Lady (1999),
Alma Lopez (contemporary Chicano
artist)
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-7526-shame-as-it-ever-was.html
http://www.almalopez.net/
Ekphrasis
“Venus Transiens”, Amy Lowell
The
Birth of Venus (1482-85), Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)
http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/the-birth-of-venus-by-sandro-botticelli/
“Landscape
with the Fall of Icarus”, William Carlos Williams
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps//poets/s_z/williams/icarus.htm
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (nd),
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569)
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/MgIyXpmuNdcLJg
“The
Great Figure”, William Carlos Williams
http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/s_z/williams/figure.htm
I Saw the Figure Five in Gold (1928), Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/art-between-wars/american-art-wwii/a/charles-demuth-i-saw-the-figure-5-in-gold
15
Writing the tip of the iceberg
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/ernest-hemingway.html
“Hills
Like White Elephants”
http://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/English%202500/Readings%20for%20English%202500/Hills%20Like%20White%20Elephants.pdf
17
The Harlem Renaissance
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harlem-renaissance
Alain Locke (1886-1954)
“The
New Negro”
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/migrations/text8/lockenewnegro.pdf
Zora Neale Hurston
(1891-1960)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/zora-neale-hurston.html
“How
It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
Migration Series
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2016/11/jacob-lawrencemigration-series.html
22
Democratic poetry for black liberation
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/langston-hughes.html
“I,
Too”
“Let
America Be America Again”
“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”
“Life Is Fine”
“Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?”
“Advertisement for the
Waldorf Astoria”
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/advertisement-for-the-waldorf-astoria/
“Democracy”
24
Fictional
autobiography and the quest for a voice
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
29
Their Eyes Were Watching God
December
6
White Southern writers and the race question
William
Faulkner (1897-1962)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/william-faulkner.html
“That Evening Sun Go Down”
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/white/anthology/faulkner.html
13
Lyrical short story and dialogue with the
male canon. Photographic practice and fiction writing
Eudora
Welty (1909-2001)
http://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/eudora-welty.html
The Golden Apples, “June Recital”
15
“June Recital”
20
Creative
writing inspired by verses of modernist poetry
Turn in — Your list of posts in our blog
(print)
January
Test
Evaluation
Presences – 5%
Participation and written exercises – 15%
Oral presentation – 20%
Essay – 30%
Written test – 30%
1. Presences
Counted on every class. Working students will
automatically have half of the presences. During classes, your PC and mobile
phone should be used only for research related to our course and when I
explicitly ask you to do so — don’t let a screen shut you off from your
surroundings!
2. Participation
During classes, please share your reading
competencies with our community, discussing the verbal and visual texts
included in the corpus. Use our blog
to post any material you consider useful for enlarging our perspectives on
these texts; you will have personalized feedback on all your posts.
Blog — modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt
Access by the email — modernistlit.flul1@gmail.com, using the password faculdadeletras
[log into the email and open another window on the address www.blogger.com and
you will have immediate access to the blog]
In the last class, please bring a list of
your posts to be considered for evaluation.
3. Oral
presentation
Groups of 3 students have to choose one of
the literary texts included in our calendar, research on it, post 3 topics for
reflection on the blog (at least a week before your presentation date) and
prepare a 10-minute oral presentation for the class.
You must select your author till September 29
Send me an email for modernistlit.flul@gmail.com
[note that this is a different email from the students’ address], including in Cc all the students that
belong to your group [follow this procedure for all emails] AND talk to me
in class to schedule your presentation.
All groups must have (at least) one meeting
with me before the presentation.
4. Essay
Choose another author (not the same you have
picked for the group work) and turn in an essay on one of his texts. The essay
must have at most 5 pages (using the ‘normal’ Word margins), in Times New Roman
12, 1 space and a half. You must turn it in printed no later than November 8.
Read “How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay”
(available in the ‘Red Photocopies’ along with all other bibliography) and
consult the Style Sheet at https://modernistlitflul.blogspot.pt/2012/09/style-sheet.html
If you decide to write your essay in English,
consider going to WILL Lab (Writing,
Innovation, Learning & Language Laboratory) and having a one-to-one session
with one of your peer tutors. Room 1.23, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, from2
to 4 pm.
For a meeting, send an mail to — WillLab_UL@letras.ulisboa.pt
5. Written
test
You may use your notes.
January — 2h (with an extra half hour)
Please turn in / present
your work at the set dates, or they won’t be accepted and will count as a zero in the
above-presented formula to calculate your final mark.
* Let us enjoy and
learn with each other throughout the semester *
