Sumários
Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle" (1819); students' oral presentation on the intertextuality of the motif of "prolonged sleep" and leap of time.
3 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Washington Irving: brief biography and contextualization of the professional association of literature and journalism in 19th century Anglophone letters.
The
literary hoax and the multi-layered persona of (implied) author and
narrator:
Possible morals of the story: superficial change; conservantism vs. freedom; critique of US pragmatism; advice on laziness.
Interxtextual association: the dog (Odyssey), Shakespeare. Symbology of names.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/09/homework-for-october-3-2016-rip-van.html
Students'
oral presentation on the intertextuality of the motif of "prolonged
sleep" and leap of time: http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/10/rip-van-winkle-o-imaginario-coletivo-e.html
Analysis of the "Declaration of Independence" (1776) - Jefferson's draft and subsequent revisions.
28 Setembro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Textual analysis of the "Declaration of Independence" (1776)http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2013/02/para-ler-declaracao-dos-representantes.html
Use of personal pronouns: "We" vs "He", "our brethren", etc.Semantic fields of natural right, freedom, and divine providence.Verbs of negative connotation associated with King George's actions.Axioms and anaphors.The revisions: the uncomfortable issue of slavery and the restitution of divine providence.Teacher's model of the textual analysis of the first two paragraphs: http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/09/text-analysis.html
Early literature of the territory that was to become the US (cont.); The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; introduction to Thomas Jefferson.
26 Setembro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Early literature of the territory that was to become the US (cont.);
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791): the (self-)didactic, the path to perfection, pragmatism and success: the anecdotical and the representative.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/09/benjamin-franklin-1706-1790.html
Introduction to Thomas Jefferson.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2008/03/thomas-jefferson-1743-1826-post-de-ctia.html
Feedback on homework (poem "Enough: Jamestown" by M. Moore). Early literature of the territory that was to become the US.
21 Setembro 2016, 14:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Feedback on homework: contextual references in "Enough: Jamestown" by Marianne Moore.
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/08/welcome-and-first-homework.html
Early literature of the territory that was to become the US / the beginnings of US history:
http://euliteratura.blogspot.pt/2016/09/highlights-beginnings-of-us-history-and.html
First person narratives and confessional literature (journals, diaries, autobiographies); the private, the public and the representative; picaresque tales of survival by heores and heroines.