Educational guide 2023_24 Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución

Contidos

Tema	Subtema
Unit 1. 19th Century American Literature	1.1. The beginnings of the American short story. Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" 1.2 Search for Form: Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. 1.3 Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Unit 2. 20th century American Literature, part 1. (1914-1945).	2.1. Modernism. Fiction. Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. 2.2. Modernism. Imagist Poetry. Ezra Pound, H.D., W.C. Williams 2.3. Depression era Fiction: John Steinbeck.
Unit 3. 20th century American Literature, part 2. (post 1945).	3.1. The Broadway stage: Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. 3.2. Jewish American fiction: Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth. 3.3 American Postmodernism: Thomas Pynchon and John Barth.