A collective writing project with UCA students1984 in 2020It had been a peaceful day before it all went dark. Winston woke up to a different smell, and to a holler coming from above. In the middle of a barely recognisable city, a policeman was yelling at him, urging to put on a mask and get moving. I do not understand ...
REVISITING EDGAR ALLAN POE ‘S “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER”A collaborative project with UCA studentsThe Fear of a PandemicDuring the whole of a frenetic, bright and busy day in the upcoming spring of the year, when the temperature started to rise, I had been walking back home from University as the academic year was prematurely ending. How strange it ...
A collective project with UCA studentsTo wear or not to wear (a mask)A series of Shakespearean questions:To be aware that the virus is not gone or notTo accept the scientific evidence or notTo continue to pay tribute to the effort of health care staff or notTo help limit the spread of the virus or notTo be careful or notTo acknowledge ...
BALANCING INNER AND OUTER FICTIONInner fiction (themeans): the details: what are they? What do they do? When and where?Outer fiction (theend): why are the details there? What do they mean? What is their purpose?To show and/or tellTo revisit assumptionsand quick interpretationsAn image can lead fromone to the otherI will use thisdynamic as a lens to read two elements of our ...
LITERATURE AND READING IN THE TIME OF THE PANDEMICR. G. Collingwood, in Principle of Art, presents art as the almost medicinal remedyagainst what he calls the “corruption of consciousness”. Literary art, like every form of art,conjures our link with beauty and gratuity—what belongs to the order of the gift, and perhaps, grace.Unlike philosophy, literature engages with capacities that are given, and ...