Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
Literatura Norteamericana 2 |
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Identifying Data | 2016/17 | |||||||||||||
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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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Towards 'The Real Thing': From Romance to realism in the literature of the United States, 1850-1914 | 1. American realities and literary realism: Mark Twain and Henry James 2. From regionalism to naturalism: Kate Chopin and Stephen Crane |
2. 'A Homemade World': American Modernism and its context, 1914-1945 | 1. Poetry: Frost, Pound, Williams, Stevens, Moore 2. Prose: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner |
3. Post-War to postmodern to ... | 1. Post-war angst: Salinger 2. Postmodern uncertainties: Donald Barthelme, Tim O'Brien 3. Multicultural multiplicity: Sandra Cisneros 4. After the "post-", after 9/11: Don DeLillo |
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