Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (concl.). Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (intr.)

8 Março 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (1955)
Showing (dialogue, monologue, stream of consciousness, etc.) vs. Telling (by the narrator) - Wayne Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961).
Discordant alignment of the characters' and the narrator's voice.
Intertextual references and speculation on the title.
The United States of the mid twentieth-century: macro and micro contexts (especially the media).
Introduction to Fahrenheit 451: http://euaescrita.blogspot.pt/2016/03/fahrenheit-451-powerpoint.html