Sumários

Guidelines for final essays. Guest lecture on Huckleberry Finn by Neil Larsen.

22 Novembro 2024, 09:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Guidelines for final essays: https://euliteratura.blogspot.com/2024/11/final-papers-instructions.html

Guest lecture on Huckleberry Finn by Neil Larsen (up to chapter 28).
Dismissing Jim and the imagination of English Royalty and American con-men (the simulacrum of the aristocratic South). Also: American Gothic and the basement.
Reading prompts: 

Rebond exercise: creative writing.

20 Novembro 2024, 09:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Creative writing exercise - chance to improve on grades of the literay analysis exercise.

Students' appreciation of classes so far (STG). Yeah sayers vs. Nay Sayers in mid 19th C US Lit. The Gothic, psychological terror and Edgar Allan Poe.

15 Novembro 2024, 09:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Students' appreciation of classes so far (STG: Stop doing; Turn and do differently; Go on doing).

Yeah sayers (Transcendentalists and Literary Reformers: Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass) vs. Nay Sayers (Dark Romantics - Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman).
The Gothic (within the Fantastic): psychological terror over supernatural terror.
Presentation on "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe and intro to the author.

H. D. Thoreau, self-government and self-reliance vs. the character "Wakefield" created by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

13 Novembro 2024, 09:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Continuation of last lesson.
H. D. Thoreau and the first chapter of Walden, "Economy" - relation of "lives of quiet desperation" with the character Wakefield in Nathaniel Hawthorne's homonymous tale:
https://euliteratura.blogspot.com/2024/11/hw-for-nov-13-n-hawthornes-wakefield.html
Guidelines for final papers: https://euliteratura.blogspot.com/2024/11/final-papers-instructions.html

Attendance of symposium "American Studies Over_Seas"

8 Novembro 2024, 09:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Special session of the symposium "American Studies Over_Seas"