Guia docente 2011_12 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
Unit 1. Conception and Formation of a National Literature.	1.1. The beginnings of the American short story. W. Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1.2 Search for Form (I): E.A. Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" 1.3. Search for Form (II): H. Melville's "Bartleby" 1.4. Poetry at midcentury: W. Whitman & E. Dickinson. 1.5 "The First great American novel": M. Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unit 2. American Literature vis-à-vis Europe. Modernism and Nativism. New American Literary Spaces.	2.1. Americans in Europe: H. James "Daisy Miller" 2.2. Two outlooks in modernist subjectivity: E. Hemingway and W. Faulkner. 2.3. Objectivism and Imagism in Poetry: E. Pound, HD, W.C. Williams 2.4 Depression Era Fiction: J. Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
Unit 3. Post-War Literature	3.1. The Broadway Stage: A. Miller The Crucible & T. Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. 3.2. Jewish American fiction: S. Bellow, B. Malamud, P. Roth 3.3. Afro-American mis/representations. R. Ellison's Invisible Man. 3.4 American postmodernism: T. Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" & J. Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse"
Unit 4. After postmodernism: American Literature since the 1970s.	4.1 Feminist criticism and the revision of the canon: ethnic women writers move center stage. 4.2. Post-postmoderns & Contemporary writers: P.Auster and D. DeLillo