Guia docente 2012_13
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Grao en Linguas Estranxeiras
 Materias
  Ámbitos literarios II del primeiro idioma estranxeiro: Inglés
   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: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno"

1.3 The first mature novel in American tradition: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Unit 2. From aesthetics to ethics: American Modernism and 1930s social literature. 2.1. Two outlooks in modernist subjectivity: Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.

2.2. Objectivism and Imagism in Poetry: E. Pound, HD, W.C. Williams

2.3. Depression Era Fiction: J. Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
Unit 3. Post-war Literature (1945-1970): Existentialism and the quest for self and identity. 3.1. The Broadway stage: A. Miller's Death of a Salesman & Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

3.2. Jewish American fiction: Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth.

3.3 American postmodernism: Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 & John 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: emergence of ethnic women writers (1970-1990s).

4.2. Post-postmoderns & contemporary writing: Paul Auster and Don DeLillo
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