Educational guide Faculty or Arts |
english |
Graduate in English Studies |
Subjects |
NORTH-AMERICAN LITERATURE |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2012_13 |
Subject | NORTH-AMERICAN LITERATURE | Code | 12274216 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
6 | Optional | First |
Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Introduction to the Course | The American Dream Indians Pilgrims Blacks |
2. The Rise of a National Literature. | The Enlightenment The Revolution A Neoclassic Black Poet: Phillis Weatley "On Being Brought from Africa to America" John de Crevecoeur´s "What is an American" |
3. The First American Renaissance. | Romanticism Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Hery David Thoreau. Non-Transcendental Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. |
4. The Era of Realism and Naturalism | The Civil War and the Guilded Age Mark Twain, William Dean Howells and Stephen Crane Two outstanding voices in poetry: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson Regionalism and Beyond: Kate Chopin. |
5. The Second American Renaissance | The "roaring twenties" and F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gtasby Depression, World War I and the Lost Generation. Southern Literature |
6. The Development of American Drama | Eugene O´Neill Tenessee Williams. Arthur Miller.Off-Broadway. Edward Albee |
7. Postmodern American | Paul Auster. The New York Trilogy |
8. Ethnic Literatures | Native-American Lit. Asian-American Lit. African-American Lit. . Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun. Latinos. Sandra Cisneros: A House on Mango Street. |
Texts to be read in class | A Selection of Texts (photocopies) Scot Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby Paul Auster. The New York Trilogy Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun |