Para quem não foi à última aula, deixo aqui a citação que peço para comentarem, como treino para uma das perguntas do teste final da disciplina, em que deverão relacionar vários dos textos discutidos em aula (aqui, pede-se referência a pelo menos três)
"Today transcendentalism is still celebrated as the optimistic center of the American imagination, te source of its new language and vision. (...) [But] transcendentalists always questioned their literary heritage. (...) Along with Poe, they required obscurity. (...) This was more than a willful obscurity, for it gave America what it lacked and sorely needed, a truly critical literature."
Richard Ruland e Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature, Harmondwsorth, Penguin, 1991, 144.
Sunday, 11 May 2008
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Páginas de Interesse
- 19th Century American Literary Figures & Literary Texts Online
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Gutenberg
- American Memory: Library of Congress
- American Transcendentalism Web
- Edgar Allan Poe Baltimore Society
- Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
- Mark Twain House and Museum
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Searchable Sea Literature
- The Nineteenth Century in Print
- University of Virginia's American Literary Texts Online
- Voices of the Shuttle: American Literature
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