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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 | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
| Asignatura | Literatura Norteamericana 1 | Código | 613G03024 | |||||||||||
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| Grao | 2º cuadrimestre |
Terceiro | Obrigatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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| 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. William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation. 1.2. Puritans and Native-Americans: Inhabiting America Anne Bradstreet, “The Prologue”, “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”. Edward Taylor, “Prologue (from Preparatory Meditations)”, “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children”, “A Fig for Thee, Oh! Death”. Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. 1.3. Becoming American Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography (Parts One & Two). J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, selections from Letters from an American Farmer (Letter III: What Is an American, Letter XII: Distresses of a Frontier Man) 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, “The American Scholar”. Henry David Thoreau, selections from Walden (chapters 2:"Where I Lived and What I Lived For"; 11: "Higher Laws"; 17: "Spring"; 18: "Conclusion"). Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Purloined Letter”. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”. Walt Whitman, selected poems: "Song of Myself" Emily Dickinson, selected poems: nºs 39, 112, 122, 194, 260, 339, 340, 347, 372, 409, 479, 519, 591, 598, 620, 764, 788, 1263, 1668. |
2.1. Identity and nation 2.2. The captive self 2.3. The captivated self |
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