Dear All, for your post 9 please consider reflecting on:
1) structural elements of vol. 4;
2) the pace of the narration;
3) Lenù’s feminism (or careers vs motherhood);
4) code-switching and emotions
As always, you are free to comment on any other aspect that might have escaped me.
I look forward to reading your posts.
Dear All,
For next week (Nov. 13) please finish reading the third volume of the quartet, and this Interview.
For your post 8, please consider commenting on Lombardi’s talk, on this interview, or – again – about history in the novel.
I hope to see many of you tomorrow at the lecture!
PS: I had the wrong information: the new novel will come out in English in a few months. The Italian version comes out tomorrow and it’s titled The Lying Life of Adults.
For those of you who are learning Italian:
We have Rm 1324HW reserved for Coffee and Conversation on Tuesdays 2:30-4pm (starting today). All levels are welcome. Please follow the Instagram account of the Italian Program: instagram.com/Huntercollegeitalianprogram (the page also includes a link to the Facebook page).
Dear All,
Thank you again for your wonderful presentations. I hope you continued reading during our long break. You should get to p. 283 of Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by next class. Please read also the essay by van Ness (the first part) if you haven’t done so. For your post 7 please focus on: new topics emerging from the narrative; the historical references; minor characters and how they are represented.
Please read other students’ comment and be respectful for the meta-poster and post in time.
If you haven’t done so, please take the survey.
Remember to bring back to class the notes that you took during the presentation.
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-11:00 Session 1 – Moderator: Julie Anne Forgione
10:15-10:25 Annabella Shehata, The Woman’s Body in the Neapolitan Novels
10:30-10:40 Ariana Guzman, An Analysis of the Use of Dolls in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
10:45-10:55 Zevi Gkana, Guilty pleasures in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
11:00-12:00 Session 2 – Moderator: Ariana Guzman
11:00-11:10 Kelsey Hyppolite, Ferrante’s Women: Parallels with Real Life
11:15-11:25 Jackie Vargas, A Parasitic Friendship
11:30-11:40 Irini Belitsis, Female Identity: Lila and Lenù’s Reciprocated Reliance and Dependency
11:45-11:55 Christopher Erazo, Who is Truly the “Brilliant Friend”
12:00-1:00pm Session 3 – Moderator: Irini Belitsis
12:00-12:10 Julie Anne Forgione, My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name: The First Two Volumes of Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels as Metafiction
12:15-12:25 Katherine Jackson, Views on Education in the Neapolitan Novels
12:30-12:40 Shoshana Mintz, Functions of Writing in the Neapolitan Novels
12:45-12:55 Paul Frediani, Circle of Violence
Followed by closing remarks by Professor Stefania Porcelli
Hi!
This is a reminder that tomorrow there will be a writing workshop (how to write a final paper) in room 1324 HW, at 2.30-3-30pm, conducted by Luca Zamparini and myself. We will focus on how to choose a topic and develop a thesis statement, as well as on the typical structure of a paper.
I hope you can be there!
Please write your title by leaving a comment to this post by Saturday, October 26. We want to prepare a program for the presentations.
You have to keep reading this week, but you don’t have to write a post (unless you really want to!)
Dear All,
Prof. Lombardi’s lecture will take place on Nov. 7. I am sorry for the inconvenience. I hope everybody got this message. Some of you, however, don’t get notification from this website, because you never accepted my invite to be part of the group. I am sending the invitation again to everyone who is not a member yet. If the problem persist you have to contact the helpdesk (or maybe you are checking the wrong email address: you need to use the address you used to create your CUNY Commons account).
I will see you on Wed., October 23. Please read the instructions for your blog and readings in my post below.
Thanks for taking the survey. If you haven’t taken it, please do it at your earliest convenience, since I am now planning our next sessions. Thank you!
Dear All,
Please take this short survey to help me organize the rest of the semester. We are halfway there and I would like to know what is working for you in this class, and what you would like to change.
I would also like to remind you to fill in the participation self-evaluation sheet after each class.
Thank you. Take the survey!
