19/09/2017

Calendar and evaluation

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 *

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