Guía docente 2023_24 Facultad de Letras

Contenidos

tema	Subtema
The Colonial Period	The Native American oral tradition Puritan writing and its ideals Captivity narratives: Mary Rowlandson
The Independence Period	Declaration of Independence Thomas Paine: political writings Benjamin Franklin Developing an American identity: James Fenimore Cooper
The Romantic Period and Transcendentalism	American Romanticism vs European Romanticism Emerson and Thoreau - 'Civil Disobedience' Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Scarlet Letter Edgar A. Poe Herman Melville Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, two 'American' poets
Realism and Regionalism	Writing after the Civil War. Emergence of Realism and Regional writers: Mark Twain Ambrose Bierce Kate Chopin Charlotte Perkins Gilman Setphen Crane Willa Cather
Postmodernism	Writing post World War 2: Feminism and Civil Rights: representatives of different American ethnicities Saul Bellow Toni Morrison Carson McCullers Maxine Hong Kingston Sandra Cisneros Ray Bradbury Ursula Leguin Bob Dylan