MASCULINITIES

• READINGS FOR FEBRUARY – MARCH
  (FILMS / AUDIOS / TEXTS /PAINTINGS)
  
  
  TOPIC: “MASCULINITIES”
  
  
  We will be looking at the shaping of the hero in some literary words. Different notions of the hero will be approached, taking into account autobiography, the picaresque output of masculine “heroic” characters, the concept of the modern hero surviving a hostile world, exiles, and the process of coming to terms with the self.
• Where? Vigo - EOI
• When? Tuesdays - 18:30 -20:00
• or 20:00 -21:30
• Room: E8
  
  

• EXCERPTS OF THE FOLLOWING WORKS:
  
  
  1. “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy” (1759) by Lawrence Sterne
  ( Filmic support, by Michael Winterbottom). 13th and 20th of January
  
  
  2.“David Copperfield” (1849-50) by Charles Dickens (filmic and textual support).
  Topic for discussion: “The Victorian Frame of Mind”. 27th of January
  
  
  3.“Dubliners” by James Joyce. 3rd and 10th of February. Film: “The Dead” by John Houston
  
  4. The Romantics – William Blake / Samuel Taylor Coleridge / William Wordsworth. Topic for discussion: the Ideals of the French Revolution. Visual Support: Blake’s paintings / BBC Documentary on the Romantics. 17th of February / 3rd of March /10th of March.
  
  
  5. “The Wizard of the Crow” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2006). 17th of March