Sumários
Analysis of passages from D. Hammett's "The House in Turk Street". Popular culture and stereotypes. Cartoon and comics. The examples of Dr. Seuss.
24 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Analysis of passages from D. Hammett's "The House in Turk Street": racism and gender roles.
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/10/homework-for-october-19-text-analyis.html
Popular culture and stereotypes
Cartoon and comics: propaganda and underlying assumptions concerning race and gender. The examples of Dr. Seuss and Asian Americans in the US:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/10/asian-americans-in-us.html
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/10/homework-for-october-24.html
Text analysis written exercise: excerpt from "The House in Turk Street."
Debate: Sensationalism in the arts and in the media; Dashiel Hammett, "The House in Turk Street" (cont.)
19 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Debate: Sensationalism in the arts and in the media;
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/10/debate-2-against-sensationalism-olga-c.html
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/10/debate-2-pro-sensationalism-beatriz-o.html
Dashiel Hammett, "The House in Turk Street", model for text analysis:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2016/10/homework-for-october-19-text-analyis.html
Detective and crime fiction. Introduction to Dashiell Hammett, "The House in Turk Street",
17 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Marginal literatures: sci-fi and detective fiction. E. A. Poe as precursor
The "production of culture perspective":
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/03/edgar-allan-poe-and-production-of.html
Mystery fiction: detective stories and crime stories.
The figure of the detective in US popular culture:
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/03/crime-novel-in-us.html
Dashiel Hammett, "The House in Turk Street" (intr.):
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/10/dashiell-hammett-by-thrilling-detective.html
Guest lecturer: Adelaide Meira Serras - Introduction to Science Fiction.
12 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Guest lecturer: Adelaide Meira Serras - Introduction to Science Fiction.
Representative Men vs. The Penny Press; Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe and to "The Balloon Hoax"
10 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Ralph Waldo Emerson, excerpts from "Representative Men"; literature for the million and the penny press.
http://popularamericana.blogspot.pt/2015/09/representative-men-and-masses.html
Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe and to "The Balloon Hoax" (1844)
Written exercise: Image analysis - https://www.google.pt/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmusicmp3spb.org%2Fimages%2Fe%2Feric_woolfson%2Ffpoe_more_t739b7614230a33b8bff3d1.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmusicmp3spb.org%2Fcovers%2Fpoe_more_tales_of_mystery_imagination.html&docid=Ns0fM4oqmho4zM&tbnid=BK6NZnFReEyB1M%3A&w=517&h=500&client=firefox-b-ab&bih=749&biw=1440&ved=0ahUKEwj7mr-pjOjPAhWDbBoKHY_qA0YQMwgfKAIwAg&iact=mrc&uact=8
