Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
North American Literature 2 |
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Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
Subject | North American Literature 2 | Code | 613G03035 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 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 forms of literary realism: Mark Twain and Henry James |
2. 'A Homemade World': American Modernism and its context, 1914-1945 | 1. Poetry: Modernist experiments 2. Prose: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner |
3. AMERICAN DRAMA (1945-2017) |
1. Arthur Miller. 2. David Mamet. |
4. “MULTI-ETHNIC” LITERATURE (1945-2017) |
1. Multi-ethnic literature: general overview. 2. Case study: Asian American literature (narrative by Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, and Andrew Lam; a selection of Asian American poetry). |
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