Sumários
Written exercise (text analysis). Invited lecturer: Teresa Alves, on Emerson and Thoreau.
24 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Written exercise: text analysis.
Invited lecturer: Teresa Alves on the comparison between British Romanticism and American Transcendentalism (with reading of poems "Kublai Khan" by Coleridge and "I wondered lonely as a cloud" by Wordsworth); Emerson's "Nature" and Thoreau's Waldern.
Emerson, The American Scholar
19 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Cont. of last class:. Creative writing feedback.
Emerson, The American Scholar (1837).
"Man Thinking" vs. "Mere Thinkers"
Work presentation.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/the-american-scholar-by-r-w-emerson-man.html
Self-reliance vs. The courtly muses of Europe.
Comparison with poem by Marianne Moore, "The Student".
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/hw-for-october-19-emerson-and-marianne.html
Emerson, Nature (1836)
17 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Emerson, Nature (1836).
Language as motivation between Nature and spirit.
Beginning with a retrospectiva age and endung with prospects.
Work presentation: creative writing.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/2-poems-based-on-nature-by-miguel.html
American transcendentalism: working definition.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/transcendentalism-and-american.html
Conclusion of the analysis of Apess's "An Indian's Looking-Glass". Introduction to Ralph Waldo Emerson and to "Nature". Oral presentation on Idealism and the Copernican Revolution of Knowledge.
12 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Conclusion of the analysis of Apess's "An Indian's Looking-Glass".
Introduction to Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Scholar, Philosopher, Poet) and to "Nature".
Oral presentation on Idealism and the Copernican Revolution of Knowledge.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/emerson-nature-idealism.html
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/the-copernican-revolution-in-knowledge.html
Rip Van Winkle: what kind of protagonist is he? (oral presentation); discussing William Apess's "An Indian's Looking Glass"; oral presentations on the structure of the sermon and on the conditions of native Americans in the 19th century
10 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
What kind of protagonist is Rip Van Winkle?
Discussing William Apess's "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man" (1833):
The conditions of native Americans in the 19th century (oral presentation).
Oral presentations on the structure of the sermon and William Apess's speech:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/william-apesss-speech-according-to.html
The hybrid allegiance of the speaker through the use of deictics and other rhetoric devices:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/homework-for-october-10-william-apess.html