| Continguts |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Introduction to the Course | The American Dream Indians Pilgrims Blacks |
| 2. The Rise of a National Literature. | The Enlightenment The Revolution A Neoclassic Black Poet: Phillis Weatley "On Being Brought from Africa to America" John de Crevecoeur´s "What is an American" |
| 3. The First American Renaissance. | Romanticism Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Hery David Thoreau. Non-Transcendental Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. |
| 4. The Era of Realism and Naturalism | The Civil War and the Guilded Age Mark Twain, William Dean Howells and Stephen Crane Two outstanding voices in poetry: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson Regionalism and Beyond: Kate Chopin. |
| 5. The Second American Renaissance | The "roaring twenties" and F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gtasby Depression, World War I and the Lost Generation. Southern Literature |
| 6. The Development of American Drama | Eugene O´Neill Tenessee Williams. Arthur Miller.Off-Broadway. Edward Albee |
| 7. Postmodern American | Paul Auster. The New York Trilogy |
| 8. Ethnic Literatures | Native-American Lit. Asian-American Lit. African-American Lit. . Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun. Latinos. Sandra Cisneros: A House on Mango Street. |
| Texts to be read in class | A Selection of Texts (photocopies) Scot Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby Paul Auster. The New York Trilogy Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun |
| Atenció personalitzada |
| Description |
| Students are encouraged to stop by the instructor´s office. They should always feel free to ask questions about the topics discussed in class. They must meet him regularly so that their interests can be properly channeld. Students must inform him about the process of their readings and the writing of their assignments. |
| Avaluació |
| Other comments and second exam session |
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The students who do not reach the 50% of the above-mentioned requirements will have a scheduled second chance, as well as those who have not opted to go through the continuos assessment (for further details see the course syllabus). This second chance will be the same for all students ( both those who failed the continuous assessment and those who opted for the final class exercise), and will consist in a final class exercisel of 20 questions (100%). These questions will be based on the units included in the syllabus (short definitions of concepts, identifications of names, titles, characters, short contextualizations of excertps from the texts analyzed ...). |
| Fonts d'informació |
| Basic |
Jordi Lamarca, The Literature of the United States. From the Colonial Period to the End of the Nineteenth Century., PPU,
Jordi Lamarca, The Twentieth-Century American Prose Writers., PPU, |
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Antholgy of Texts (September 2009). Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Fitzgerald, Scott. The Great Gatsby. Ausrer, Paul. The New York Trilogy.
(Where available, we recommend Penguin editions for these texts)
Note: Jordi Lamarca's books can be bought at the URV Photocopy Service Shop |
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(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation. |
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