| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Literatura Norteamericana 2 |
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| Identifying Data | 2013/14 | |||||||||||||
| 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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Lauter, Paul (ed). (2008). The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume D: Modern Period, 1910-1945. New York: Houghton.
Baym, Nina (ed.) (2011). The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Eighth Edition). New York: Norton. |
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Required Readings: [All texts, except for the novels by Fitzgerald and Salinger, are available in the two Norton anthologies (8th ed.). A course pack will be available for students at the photocopying office. You are encouraged to purchase it and do some of the reading before the beginning of the course.] Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study & "The Real Thing" Kate Chopin, "The Storm" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-paper" Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" Modernist poetry, selected poems by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, e.e. cummings & Marianne Moore Ernest Hemingway, selected stories: "Big Two-Hearted River", "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby [Penguin, 2013] William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye [Penguin, 2010] Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" Donald Barthelme. "The Balloon" Sandra Cisneros, "Mericans" |
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General bibliography (More specific bibliographical references on individual author and texts will be provided in class.) Literary histories & general studies. Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Ford, Boris, ed. American Literature (The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. 9). London: Penguin, 1988. Ruland, Richard & Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. London: Routledge, 1991. American Realism(s). American Modernism(s). Anderson, Quentin. "The Emergence of Modernism." Columbia Literary History of the United States. Gen. Ed. Emory Elliott. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. 695-714. Bradbury, Malcolm. "Modernisms/Postmodernisms." Innovation / Renovation: New Perspectives on the Humanities. Eds. Ihab & Sally Hassan. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. 311-327. Bradbury, Malcolm & James McFarlane. "The Name and Nature of Modernism". Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930. Eds. Malcolm Bradbury & James McFarlane. London: Penguin, 1976. 19-55. Singal, Daniel. "Towards a Definition of American Modernism." Modernist Culture in America. Ed. Daniel Singal. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1991. 1-27. General Studies. Chase, Richard. The American Novel and Its Tradition. 1957. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980. Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel. 1960. London: Penguin, 1984. Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Poirier, Richard. A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature. 1966. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. |
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