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Syllabus 2013-14 - 12212019 - Northamerican Literature (Literatura norteamericana)
- Level 1: Tutorial support sessions, materials and exams in this language
- Level 2: Tutorial support sessions, materials, exams and seminars in this language
- Level 3: Tutorial support sessions, materials, exams, seminars and regular lectures in this language
| DEGREE: | Grado en Estudios ingleses |
| FACULTY: | FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCES AND EDUCATION |
| ACADEMIC YEAR: | 2013-14 |
| COURSE: | Northamerican Literature |
| NAME: Northamerican Literature | |||||
| CODE: 12212019 | ACADEMIC YEAR: 2013-14 | ||||
| LANGUAGE: English | LEVEL: 3 | ||||
| ECTS CREDITS: 6.0 | YEAR: 3 | SEMESTER: SC | |||
| NAME: PASCUAL SOLER, MARÍA NIEVES | ||
| DEPARTMENT: U115 - FILOLOGÍA INGLESA | ||
| FIELD OF STUDY: 345 - FILOLOGÍA INGLESA | ||
| OFFICE NO.: - | E-MAIL: - | P: - |
| WEBSITE: - | ||
| ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8962-5298 | ||
| LANGUAGE: English | LEVEL: 3 | |
UNIT 1. FORMATIVE PERIOD: 1620-1836. 1.1. Colonization and Immigration. The French and Indian War.The Revolution. The New Republic. 1.2. Colonial Literature: Literary models and methods imported from Great Britain. The Puritan theory of style. 1.3. Towards a national literature: the frontier. 1.4. The Enlightenment. Newspapers, almanacs and magazines. 1.5. The beginnings of Romanticism. UNIT2. A NATIONAL LITERATURE IN NEW ENGLAND: 1836-1900. 2.1. Democratization of Politics. The Civil War. Reconstruction. Westward Expansion. Overseas Imperialism. 2.2. Transcendentalism. 2.3. Poetry of the Self. 2.4. Slavery. 2.5. Realism, naturalism, regionalism, local color and utopianism as transition movements. 2.5.1. Professional Women Writers. UNIT 3. MODERN AGE: 1900-1945. 3. 1.The City. Industrialization. Capitalism. IWW. Migration to Europe. The Depression. The New Deal. IIWW. 3.2. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. 3.3. “A Lost Generation.” 3.4. Jazz Age and the “Red Decade:” The Agit-prop Teater. 3.5. The Southem Literary Renaissance. UNIT 4. AFTER WORLD WAR II: THE GLOBAL VILLAGE. 4. 1. The CoId War. The Liberation movements. Vietnam. The Watergate Fiasco. War in the Middle East. 4.2. From Black Mountain to the Poetry of the Deep Image. 4.3. Broadway. 4.4. Fictional genres: from neorealism to postmodernism. 4.5. Ethnic Literatures and the canon.
Theory and practice classes
Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support
20 per cent of the final grade goes to attendance, participation and oral presentation of essay at the end of the course. 80 per cent goes to the exam
- Predicting the past [Recurso electrónico] : the paradoxes of American literary history . Edition: -. Author: Boyden, Michael. Publisher: Leuven : Leuven University Press, c2009 (Library)
- A journey through American literature. Edition: -. Author: Hayes, Kevin J. Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012 (Library)
- The literature of the United States of America. Edition: 2nd ed., repr. Author: Walker, Marshall. Publisher: [London]: MacMillan, 1994 (Library)
- The Heath anthology of American literature. Edition: 4th ed. Author: -. Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, cop. 2002 (Library)
- Contemporary African-American drama [Recurso electrónico] : (from cultural nationalism to the poetic. Edition: -. Author: Dakorwala, N. K. Publisher: Jaipur, India : ABD Publishers, 2010 (Library)
- Latino literature in America . Edition: -. Author: Kevane, Bridget A., 1963-. Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003. (Library)
- The Norton anthology of literature by women: the traditions in English. Edition: -. Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.. Publisher: New York ; London: W. W. Norton & Company, cop. 1996 (Library)
- A companion to the American novel [Recurso electrónico]. Edition: -. Author: -. Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (Library)