Sumários

Herman Melville's Bartleby (cont.): Close reading, intertextuality, symbolism.

28 Novembro 2016, 14:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Bartleby and Passive Resistance, Thoreau and Civil Disobedience - work presentation:http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/bartleby-and-passive-resistance-thoreau.html
Significative collocations and word choices in the text.The wall, the law, the lawyer and the doubtful guest; copying and formulaic sentences:

http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/homework-for-november-23-bartleby.html


Walt Whitman (conclusion). Introduction to Herman Melville; social tensions in Bartleby (1855).

23 Novembro 2016, 14:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Walt Whitman (conclusion). 

Introduction to Herman Melville; the white whale and the white wall:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/melville-excerpt-from-moby-dick-1851.html
 Group presentation: social tensions in Bartleby, the Scrivener (1855):


Walt Whitman (cont.); Group presentation on the preface of Leaves of Grass; Creative writing assignment.

21 Novembro 2016, 14:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Walt Whitman (cont.). Group presentation on the preface of Leaves of Grass:

http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/walt-whitman-preface-and-advice-on.html
Creative writing assignment. Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa, and the writer as password.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/fragment-of-saudacao-walt-whitman-by.html


E. A. Poe, "The Raven" (concl.); Discussion and decision about final essays; Walt Whitman (introduction).

16 Novembro 2016, 14:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

E. Allan Poe: affective reading, likes and dislikes: the fantastic, the sinister and the psychologic.

Work presentation on the symbolism of the Raven.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/edgar-allan-poe-e-representacoes-de-o.html
Discussion and decision about final essays.
Commentary about creative writing proposal: "The Sleepers" - http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/creative-writing-proposal-sleepers-for.html
Walt Whitman, presentation of "Choose your adventure" (group work).


"The Black Cat" (concl.); Commentary practice; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" (1845).

14 Novembro 2016, 14:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

"The Black Cat" and "The Imp of the Perverse" (conclusion); discussion of the narrator's profile.Commentary practice on E. A. Poe's theory of the undercurrent of meaning and unity of effect: 

http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/homework-for-november-14-commentary.html
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven" - reading and analysis.