Poe's contribution to the theory of the short story. Discussion and analysis of excerpts of "The Black Cat"

9 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

The structure of Poe's review of Twice-Told Tales:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/poes-review-of-hawthorne-structure.html
Poe's contribution to the theory of the short story: unity of effect, circumscription of space, duration of reading (one sitting, one hour of perusal).
"The Black Cat": the wife and the cat, work presentation:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/the-black-cat-cat-wife-and-horrible.html
"The Black Cat". the imp of the perverse, work presentation:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/the-black-cat-and-imp-of-perverse-by.html

Delivery & correction of text analysis assignment. Instructions for final essay (review). Conclusion of Hawthorne and introduction of Poe.

7 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Delivery and correction of text analysis assignment.
Instructions for final essay (review).
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/how-to-write-literary-text-review.html
Conclusion of discussion of "The MInister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne: morals and suggestiveness.
Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe.

Douglass, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July" (cont.); Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil"

2 Novembro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Douglass, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July: work presentation:
"http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/how-douglasss-speech-reflects-on-united.html
The rhetorics of violence used by Douglass. The rhetoric of Christianity and the roots of Afro-American music and lyrics. Feedback on homework:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/hw-for-october-31-frederick-douglass.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne: life and works.
"The Minister's Black Veil" (1837): work presentation on dark romanticism and the contrast with Transcendentalism:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/a-discussion-on-anti-transcendentalism.html
The Puritan burden, the unreadable symbol and the polyssemous symbol; comparison with The Scarlet Letter (1850):
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/11/nathaniel-hawthorne-scarlet-letter-1850.html

Thoreau, Walden + "Resistance to Civil Government" (cont.): Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July".

31 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Thoreau, Walden. Work presentation: http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/throeau-uma-casa-no-lago-por-anton.html
Comments on "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849) and close reading on the account of Thoreau's night in prison.
Frederick Douglass: life and works.
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" (1852). Rhetoric devices and deictics of accusation.
Work presentation: http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/how-douglasss-speech-reflects-on-united.html

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

26 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

The circumstances of the writing of Walden and Thoreau as keeper of journals; intertextuality with Alberto Caeiro:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/henry-david-thoreau-1817-1862.html
Individualism / egotism (I, my readers) against the mass of men: “The mass of men live lifes of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”

The I in the centre of the circle attending to the rays that emanate from him; the others are in the periphery, eccentric.

Invective against common sense and the voice of the elders (although Thoreau quotes from several ancient sources).

The use of parables and feedack on homework: http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/homework-for-oct-24-and-26-parables-and.html