Sessão com James Ragan

A pedido da professora, posto aqui o meu esquema da sessão com James Ragan, para futura referência.
(Carregar com botão direito do rato e escolher "abrir imagem num novo separador" para melhor visualização)

Filipa Vieira, nº46566

Stream of consciousness

Here is a simple definition of this technique 


"STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Writing in which a character's perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparently random form, without regard for logical sequence, chronology, or syntax. Often such writing makes no distinction between various levels of reality—such as dreams, memories, imaginative thoughts or real sensory perception. William James coined the phrase "stream of consciousness" in his Principles of Psychology (1890). The technique has been used by several authors and poets: Katherine Anne Porter, Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, T. S. Eliot, and William Faulkner. Some critics treat the interior monologue as a subset of the more general category, stream of consciousness. Although interior monologues by earlier writers share some similarities with stream of consciousness, the first clear appearance is in Edouard Dujardin's Les lauriers sont coupés (The Laurels Have Been Cut, 1888). Perhaps the most famous example is the stream of consciousness section in James Joyce's Ulysses, which climaxes in a forty-odd page interior monologue of Molly Bloom, an extended passage with only one punctuation mark."

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_S.html

Eudora Welty, "The Whole World Knows"

   

          Born in Jackson, Mississippi, she attended the Mississippi College for Women, graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1929) and studied advertising at Columbia University for a year. Her first short story appeared in 1936, and gradually she began to be published in small, then regional and general circulation magazines. She published collections of her short stories and began publishing novels, as well.

Soon after her first novel was published, she stopped writing to care full-time for her family for fifteen years: for two brothers with severe arthritis and her mother who had had a stroke. After her mother died in 1966, she returned to writing.

She was a 6-time winner of the O. Henry Award for Short Stories, and her many awards include the National Medal for Literature, the American Book Award, and, in 1969, a Pulitzer Prize.

She was also an accomplished and published photographer. But it is for her fiction, usually set in the rural South, that she's known as the First Lady of Southern Literature.

The Golden Apples (1949) includes seven interlocking stories that trace life in the fictional Morgana, Mississippi, from the turn of the century until the late 1940s. When Welty began writing the stories, however, she had no idea that they would be connected. Midway through the composition process, she finally realized that she was writing about a common cast of characters, that the characters of one story seemed to be younger or older versions of the characters in other stories, and she decided to create a book that was neither novel nor story collection. It is perhaps the greatest triumph of her distinguished career, an unmatched example of the story cycle.

We are going to make a presentation about the story" The Whole World Knows"
The story is told by Randall McLain and through his callings to his father we imagine a suffering ,regretful man.But is he so?
These quatations are from the very end of the story.

      ''And I showed I had the pistol.I said, 'I want the whole bed'  I told her she hadn't needed to be here. I got down in the bed and pointed the pistol at her, without much hope, the way I used to lie cherishing a dream in the morning, and she the way Jinny would come pull me out of it.''
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      ''In a minute she put her hand out again, differently, and laid it cold on my shoulder. And I had her so quick. I could have been asleep then. I was lying there.''
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      "So i slept"
Can a regretful man sleep easily after raping 18 years old girl?

                                                                                                            Elif KALYONCU

                                                                                                            Gizem GÜNÇİÇEK

    

William Faulkner - "That Evening Sun"

William (Cuthbert) Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was one of the most important and prolific writers in Southern literature, in the United States. He was born in the state of Mississippi and therefore profoundly influenced by the southern culture and history, but also by the education in arts and literature provided by his mother and maternal grandmother. His Nanny, Caroline (Callie) Barr provided a huge background on the African-American tradition and history, from which, we could assume, derives his great dismay on the huge social, political and economic misfortunes (for lack of a stronger word) of that community.

William Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for “his powerful and artistically unique contribute to the Modern American Novel”. He also won two Pulitzer Awards, one in 1955 for A Fable and the other in 1963 (posthumous) for The Reivers. In 1951 he received a US National Book Award for Collected Stories and another in 1955 for A Fable.

In 1927 Faulkner created the setting for most of his novels and short stories – a small region in Northern Mississippi named Yoknapatawpha County, with the town Jefferson in its core. “That Evening Sun” was published in 1931, and the main characters are the Compson children, being Quentin, the older son, the narrator. Like the town Jefferson is the setting of choice of the author, also The Compson family plays a main role in many of Faulkner’s novels.

This short story depicts the racial, social and moral contrasts in the southern society, and is marked by the stern criticism of Faulkner towards  the white community's relation with the African-Americans. It’s narrated by Quentin, when he is 24 years old and starts remembering something that happened during his childhood, 15 years earlier. As the story enfolds, the tone becomes more and more childish, showing the children's incomprehension and empathy to Nancy’s despair and the lack of understanding of the adults in their family.

A brief note to the title — it comes from a black spiritual, whose first line states: “Lord, how I hate to see that evening sun go down”, meaning that after the setting of the sun, death would follow, giving an early indication of Nancy’s fate.

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, and I hope to read your thoughts and impressions while reading it.

Madalena Athayde - 44440