Sumários
Edgar Allan Poe: pleasing the elites and the masses. "Tales of the Folio Club" and the short-circuit of nonsense. Introd. to crime fiction and Dashiell Hammett
8 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): "Father" of psychological horror, detective fiction, science fiction, symbolist poetry, reception theory, the modern short story.
Analysis of the preface to "Tales of the Folio Club": notions of paratext and literary hoax.
Nonsense, quotationalism and parody short-circuiting the hold on reason by the elites.
From Poe's detective novel to Sherlock Holme's Scotland Yard Mysteries to Agatha Christie's Closet Mystery.
The 1920s crime fiction bringing murder to the streets and to the common man:
Introduction to the short story "The House on Turk Street" by Dashiell Hammett.
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/homework-for-oct-8-notes-for-reading.html
and
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/03/crime-novel-in-us.html
Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull and the Frontier Myth. The Dime Novel and its junction of Literarture and the Press.
5 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill: http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/02/buffalo-bill.html
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: image analysis - http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/09/homework-for-oct-1_30.html
The mid-19th century and the tensions between the elite (Representative Men) and the masses, aggravated by the popularization of press literacy:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/09/representative-men-and-masses.html
Analysis of the prologue of the dime novel "Adventures of Buffalo Bill: From Boyhood to Manhood" (Beadle's Boy's Library).
Discussion of definitons of culture vs. (pop)ular culture. Structure and keywords of essay "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk".
1 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Discussion of definitions of culture: ideal, documental, social (Raymond Williams)
High vs. low culture (Jim Cullen).
Popular - traditional vs. pop - contemporary / ephemeral.
Structure and keywords of essay "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk".
The Frontier Myth - introduction to William F. Cody / Buffalo Bill - http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/02/buffalo-bill.html
Methodology and concepts for discourse analysis and semiotics. Reading "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk".
28 Setembro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Methodology and concepts for discourse analysis and semiotics. Saussure's sign and Peirce's symbol. The notion of the "interpretant".
Abduction and assumptions.
Revision of assessment criteria.
Introduction to essay "Nostalgia Mongering at City Walk".
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/09/essay-nostalgia-mongering-at-city-walk.html
Cont. of exercise - recollecting the childhood idea of America. Presentation of calendar and assessment criteria. Pop vs. popular culture.
24 Setembro 2015, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Cont. of exercise - recollecting the childhood idea of America.