Guia docent Facultat de Lletres |
català |
Grau d'Anglès (2009) |
Assignatures |
LITERATURA NORD-AMERICANA |
Continguts |
DADES IDENTIFICATIVES | 2012_13 |
Assignatura | LITERATURA NORD-AMERICANA | Codi | 12274216 | |||||
Ensenyament |
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Cicle | 1r | |||||
Descriptors | Crèd. | Tipus | Curs | Període | ||||
6 | Optativa | Primer |
Competències | Resultats d'aprenentage | Continguts |
Planificació | Metodologies | Atenció personalitzada |
Avaluació | Fonts d'informació | Recomanacions |
Tema | Subtema |
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 |