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Guía DocenteCurso Facultade de Filoloxía |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Literatura Norteamericana 2 |
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| Identifying Data | 2012/13 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Literatura Norteamericana 2 | Code | 613G03035 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Basic |
Steinie, Pamela (2000). In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye. Innocence under Pressure.
Fiedler, Leslie (1998). Love and Death in the American Novel . Dalkey Archive Press
Baym, Nina (2007). Norton Anthology of American Literature Student Website. New York
Kazin, Alfred (1995). On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature. New York: Mariner Books
Waugh, Patricia (1993). Postmodernism a reader. London: E. Arnold
Chase, Richard (1978). The American Novel and Its Tradition. New York: Gordian P.
Lauter, Paul (ed). (2008). The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume D: Modern Period, 1910-1945. New York: Houghton.
Marx, Leo (2000). The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Oxford UP.
Baym, Nina (ed.) (2011). The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Eighth Edition). New York: Norton.
Toth, Josh (2010). The passing of Postmodernism : a spectroanalysis of the contemporary. New York: Suny P.
Nash, Roderick Frazier (2001). Wilderness and the American Mind. Yale UP. |
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Required Readings: Zitkala-Zá [Gertrude Bonin] (1876-1936). Impressions of an Indian Childhood (Heath Anthology, pages 860-62); "The School Days of an Indian Girl" [p.863-71]; "Four Strange Summers" [p.867-69]. [Excerpts] Kate Chopin (1851-1904). The Awakening. Novella. [p.Heath 536-38] Scott-Fitzgerald (1896-1961). The Great Gatsby [Penguin Edition]. Novel. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "Hills Like White Elephants" [Heath: 1522-25]. Short Story. William Faulkner (1897-1962) "Barn Burning" [Heath: 1554-56]. Short Story. J.D. Salinger (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Novel. Edwidge Danticat (1969-) "Children of the Sea" in Krik? Krak! [1-30]. Short Story Sandra Cisneros (b.1969). The House in Mango Street [Excerpts]"My Name"; "No Speak English"; "A house of my own"; "Four skinny trees" Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. [Penguin Edition] These are the texts as we will read them and analyze in class. Due to unexpected circumstances it might be necessary to shorten the list, eliminate a reading and/or find another one (probably shorter). |
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| Complementary |
(1995). Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Cambridge UP
Curnutt, Kirk (2007). Cambridge Introduction to S. Fitzgerald. Cambridge UP
Viramontes-Sobek, Helena M. (1996). Chicana creativity and criticism new frontiers in American literature. New Mexico: U of New Mexico UP
Saldívar-Hull, Sonia (2000). Feminism on the border Chicana gender politics and literature. California: California UP
Bloom, Harold (1986). Frost. Chelsea House
Beer, Janet ( 1997). Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Gilman: Studies in Sort Fiction.
Melgar Pernías, Yolanda (2011). Los "Bildungsromane" femeninos de Carmen Bullosa y Sandra Cisneros /. Colección Támesis
Martin, Weny (1988). New essays on the Awakening. Cambridge UP
Chopin, Kate (1998). The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions). New York: Norton.
Walker, Nancy (1993). The Awakening complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essaysfrom five contemporary critical perspectives /. Boston: Bedford Books
Knights, Pamela (2008). The Awakening: And Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics) . Oxford UP.
Beer, Janet (2008). The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin. Cambridge UP
Roudané, Matthew C. (2001). The Cambridge companion to Tennessee Williams . Cambridge UP
Howe, Irving (1991). William Faulkner: A Critical Study. |
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