Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
North American Literature 2 |
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Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
Subject | North American Literature 2 | Code | 613G03035 | |||||||||||
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Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Required Readings: [Most texts are available in the two Norton anthologies (8th ed.). Most texts will be available for students as pdf files. You are earnestly encouraged to do some of the reading before the beginning of the course.] Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study Kate Chopin, The Awakening Modernist poetry, selected poems by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens et al. Ernest Hemingway, short stories F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Selection of contemporary short stories: modern to postmodern |
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Complementary materials, both contextual and critical, will be made available via the course Moodle page. AMERICAN LITERATURE II - BIBLIOGRAPHY Literary histories & general studies. Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern American Novel. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. Cassuto, Leonard, Clare Virginia Eby & Benjamin Reiss, eds. The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel. 1960. London: Penguin, 1984. Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Kazin,
Alfred. On Native Grounds: An
Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature.
1942. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995. Ruland,
Richard & Malcolm Bradbury. From
Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature.
London: Routledge, 1991. American Realism(s). 1. General studies: Barrish, Phillip J. The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Berthoff, Werner. The Ferment of Realism: American Literature 1884-1919. 1965. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981. 1-47. Pizer,
Donald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and
Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 2. Individual authors & works: 2.1. Mark Twain. Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (A Norton Critical Edition).3rd ed. Ed. Thomas Cooley. New York: Norton, 1998. Fishkin,
Shelley Fisher, ed. The Mark Twain
Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works.
New York: The Library of America, 2010. Messent, Peter. The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres, 2007. Cf. 1-38, 73-87. Quirk,
Tom. “The
Realism of Huckleberry Finn.”
In
Coming to Grips with
Huckleberry Finn: Essays on a Book, a Boy, and a Man. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1993. 83-105. 2.2. Henry James James, Henry. Tales of Henry James. (A Norton Critical Edition). Eds. Christof Wegelin & Henry B. Wonham. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2003. Hocks, Richard A. Henry James: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1990. Cf. 3-11, 31-35, 141-147. American Modernism(s). 1. General studies: 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 & 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. |
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