| Competències |
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| A2 | Conèixer la història de la llengua anglesa i la seves cultures |
| A14 | Saber analitzar textos orals i escrits des del punt de vista lingüístic, sociològic i literari |
| A15 | Poder formar-se una opinió crítica sobre un text |
| A16 | Saber expressar una opinió amb claredat i concisió sobre un text oral o escrit |
| B2 | Resoldre problemes de forma efectiva |
| B3 | Aplicar pensament crític, lògic i creatiu |
| C1 | Dominar l’expressió i la comprensió d'un idioma estranger |
| C3 | Desenvolupar la vida personal i professional tenint una perspectiva àmplia i global del món |
| C4 | Moure’s amb facilitat per l’espai europeu i per la resta del món |
| Objectius d'aprenentatge |
| Objectius | Competències | ||
| This course will attempt to provide a survey of the literature of the United States from Colonial Times down to the twentieth century. It will discuss a selection of works in their historical context, noting for example the impact of puritanism, the Revolution, the Civil War, the Depression and the two World Wars and how these and other historical factors created and developed literary expression. In adition to the historical background in which poetry, fiction and drama emerged, special emphasis will be placed on the analysis of distinctive major themes in American experience and their literary expression (space, isolation, self-reliance, puritanism, etc). | A2 A14 A15 A16 |
B2 B3 |
C1 C3 C4 |
| Continguts |
| Tema | Subtema |
| 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 |
| Planificació |
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| Competències | (*) Hores a classe | Hores fora de classe | (**) Hores totals | ||||||
| Activitats Introductòries |
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2 | 6 | 8 | |||||
| Presentacions / exposicions |
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2 | 24 | 26 | |||||
| Sessió Magistral |
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30 | 30 | 60 | |||||
| Atenció personalitzada |
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2 | 2 | 4 | |||||
| Proves objectives de preguntes curtes |
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6 | 48 | 54 | |||||
| (*) En el cas de docència no presencial, són les hores de treball amb suport vitual del professor. (**) Les dades que apareixen a la taula de planificació són de caràcter orientatiu, considerant l’heterogeneïtat de l’alumnat | |||||||||
| Metodologies |
| Descripció | |
| Activitats Introductòries | There will be introductory presentations by means of hand outs and oral discussions.The aim of these introductory tasks is to make the student familar with the names, facts, titles and literary movements that will be developed throughout the course |
| Presentacions / exposicions | There will be oral presentarions the topic of which will have been agreed upon previously. They will be delivered in small groups and will be based on short written papers or written reports. And their aim is to complement the lectures and full discussions held in class. |
| Sessió Magistral | Lectures will be focused on the items (Literay periods, authors and works) of the class syllabus. Special attention wil be paid to the assigned texts. These will be subject to close reading, analysis and discussion. |
| Atenció personalitzada |
| Atenció personalitzada |
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| Avaluació |
| Descripció | Pes | ||
| Presentacions / exposicions | Please remember that class attendance is a main course requirement. This will undoubtedly help you in choosing a topic for your oral-written presentation. This will be valued according to a) laguage accuracy, b) knowldege of the subject and c) originality. | 10% | |
| Sessió Magistral | Since part of the course is based on lectures, your class attedance should be subsequently followed by class participation and discussion. Feel free to ask questions and discuss them. | 30% | |
| Proves objectives de preguntes curtes | There will be three class exercises about the topics included in the syllabus. | 60% | |
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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 ...). |
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| Fonts d'informació |
| Bàsica |
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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Texts to be read in class. Selected Texts. Fitzgerald, Scott. The Great Gatsby. Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun. Paul Auster. 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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(*)La Guia docent és el document on es visualitza la proposta acadèmica de la URV. Aquest document és públic i no es pot modificar, llevat de casos excepcionals revisats per l'òrgan competent/ o degudament revisats d'acord amb la normativa vigent