Guia docente 2012_13 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
()Unit 1. Conception and Formation of To National Literature.	()1.1. The beginnings of the American short story. W. Irving's Rip Go Winkle1.2 Search was Form (I): And.IT. Poe The Fall of the House of Usher1.3. Search Was Form (II): H. Melville's Bartleby1.4. Poetry at midcentury: W. Whitman &amp; And. 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 Miller2.2. Two outlooks in modernist subjectivity: And. Hemingway and W. Faulkner.2.3. Objectivism and Imagism in Poetry: And. Pound, HD, W.C. Williams2.4 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 1970*s.	()4.1 Feminist criticism and the revision of the canon: ehtnic women writers moves center stage. 4.2. Post-postmoderns &amp; Contemporary writers: P.Auster and D. *DeLillo