Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
North American Literature 1 |
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Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
Subject | North American Literature 1 | Code | 613G03024 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. The Literature of the Colonial and Republican periods: 1620-1820 Early American Literature 1620-1820. 1.1. Encountering (in) the New World John Smith, from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. 1.2. Puritans and Native-Americans: Inhabiting America Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”, “Before the Birth of One of Her Children”, “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet”, “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”. Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. 1.3. Becoming American Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography (Parts One & Two). Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence”. Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”. |
1.1. Encountering (in) the New World 1.2. Inhabiting "America": colonials and native-americans 1.3. Becoming "American" |
2. The American "Renaissance": 1820-1865 Ralph Waldo Emerson, selected writings Henry David Thoreau, selections from Walden Edgar Allan Poe, selected writings Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”. Walt Whitman, selected poems: "Song of Myself" Emily Dickinson, selected poems |
2.1. Identity and nation 2.2. The captive self 2.3. The captivated self |
3. American realities after the Civil War Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn |
3.1. American realism |
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