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The Ourang-Outang Situation

2003; Volume: 30; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/lit.2003.0050

1542-4286

Ed White,

Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

The crime at the heart of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is the slave insurrection, but the real mystery of this story concerns why this reading is not more obvious. A discussion of the classroom challenges of this interpretation reveals some shortcomings of "structuralist" pedagogies while highlighting the advantages of Sartre's "situational" approach to historical context.