Sumários

How to "read" an image: discourse analysis and multimodality (cont.) Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660 (1946).

8 Março 2017, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

How to "read" an image: discourse analysis and multimodality (cont.)

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/03/hw-for-march-8.html

Asian-American Diaspora and Literature (cont.)

Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660 (1946): post-modernist refraction of the subject and appopriation of the Western genre of autobiography; humour and irony as devices to control pathos. Gender and generation issues: women in striding positions, children in the forefront.

Brief presentation on cartoons, comics and graphic novels in US Culture. Art Spiegelman's Maus (1987-1991)

6 Março 2017, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Brief presentation on cartoons, comics and graphic novels in US Culture. http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/03/cartoons-and-comics.html
Art Spiegelman's Maus (1987-1991)

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/03/does-graphic-novel-come-after-death-of.html

Hybridity of visual styles and written registers: experimentalism and the new media; heterolingualism. Introduction to multimodality: how to "read" an image.

Analysis of Carlos Bulosan's "Silence" (194?) and the Filipino-American diaspora; model for text analysis

1 Março 2017, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Asian-American diaspora. Carlos Bulosan, “Silence” (194?).

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/02/silence-de-carlos-bulosan-por-ana-sofia.html

Analysis of linguistic devices for alienation of the subject and relation with Julia Kristeva's concept of "the silence of the polyglot".

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/03/excerpt-from-article-on-julia-kristevas.html
Model for text analysis.

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/03/text-analysis-teachers-model-excerpt.html

Not Taught.

27 Fevereiro 2017, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Holiday (Carnaval).

Vladimir Nabokov, "Symbols and Signs" (1948). First oral presentation: a sequel for the short story.

22 Fevereiro 2017, 16:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Vladimir Nabokov: life and works."Symbols and signs" -attempt at close reading analysis: importance of deictics, sentences with subjects that are inanimate objects, repetitions, euphoric nouns and dysphoric verbs, importance of cyphers, colors, order, etc.http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2013/09/sobre-vladimir-nabokov.html
First oral presentation: a sequel for the short story.

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/02/in-preparation-of-good-short-story-by.html