Educational guide 2012_13 Faculty or Arts

Contents

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