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Guía DocenteCurso Facultade de Filoloxía |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Literatura Norteamericana 1 |
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| Datos Identificativos | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Asignatura | Literatura Norteamericana 1 | Código | 613G03024 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptores | Ciclo | Período | Curso | Tipo | Créditos | |||||||||
| Grao | 2º cuadrimestre |
Terceiro | Obrigatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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1. Literature of the (Pre-)Colonial and Republican periods: 1620-1820 |
INTRODUCTION to the historical and literary context: The Native Americans as The First Peoples; Pilgrims’ arrival; Puritan religion; interethnic and other fights (e.g. Salem’s “witch hunt”); etc. 1.1. NATIVE-AMERICAN ORATURE (selected stories) 1.2. HISTORICAL ESSAY: John Smith: General History of Virginia (1624) (selected fragments) 1.3. POETRY (I): Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) 1.4. CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE: Mary Rowlandson: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) (selected fragments) 1.5. DECLARATION (I): Thomas Jefferson et al.: “The Declaration of Independence” (1776) |
2. Romanticism and beyond (1820-1865) |
2.1. HISTORICAL NOVEL (I): Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter (selected chapters) (1850) 2.2. THE GOTHIC STORY (I): Edgar Allan Poe: “The Black Cat” (1843) 2.3. SLAVE NARRATIVE: Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (selected fragments) (1845) 2.4. DECLARATION (II): Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al.: “The Declaration of Sentiments” (1848); Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman” (1851) |
3. Realism and beyond (1865-) |
3.1. HISTORICAL NOVEL (II): Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (selected chapters) (1884) 3.2. POETRY (II): Walt Whitman (1819-1892) 3.3. POETRY (III): Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 3.4. THE GOTHIC STORY (II): Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) |
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