Sumários
Review of position of The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath in popular American culture
4 Abril 2022, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Review of position of The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath in popular American culture
The construction/Deconstruction of an American Icon
30 Março 2022, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
The construction and deconstruction of an American Icon - Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mocking Bird and Go Set a Watchman (Research Set 2) - was reviewed in light of Christopher Bigsby’s chapter “Introduction: What,
then, is the American” from The Cambridge Companion to Modern American
Culture.
"Rethinking the American Dream" in light of research sets 1 & 3
28 Março 2022, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
The first half of David Kamp's Vanity Fair article “Rethinking the American Dream” (manual pp 28-39) - written in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis/sub-prime lending bubble and as the Great Recession was unfolding - was reviewed. Research Set 1 Class structure & representations of the American Dream and its flaws (Great Gatsby – book & films) and Research Set 3 Not really an American Dream (The Grapes of Wrath – film & Hillbilly Elegy – book & film) were examined in light of this orientation.
Rewriting popular culture - theory of parody applied to short stories
23 Março 2022, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Rewriting popular culture - theory of parody applied to Steven Millhauser's short story - "Cat'N'Mouse".
Discussion of test topics
21 Março 2022, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Returned students' corrected tests and discussed corrections.