Guia docente
DATOS IDENTIFICATIVOS							2011_12
Asignatura	LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA I					Código	00408120
Enseñanza	LIC. EN FILOLOGIA INGLESA
Descriptores	Cr.totales	Tipo	Curso	Semestre
	9	Obligatoria	Tercero	Anual
Idioma
Prerrequisitos
Departamento	FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Responsable	ÁLVAREZ MAURÍN , MARÍA JOSÉ				Correo-e	mjalvm@unileon.es imarj@unileon.es
Profesores/as	ÁLVAREZ MAURÍN , MARÍA JOSÉ MARTÍN JUNQUERA , IMELDA
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Descripción general	This course intends to offer the students a comprehensive survey of the history of American Literature, its major writers and movemments, from the colonial period to the beginnings of the XXth century, as well as an introduction to American culture and its specific nature. "
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Objetivos

This course intends to offer the students a comprehensive survey of the history of American Literature, its major writers and movemments, from the colonial period to the beginnings of the XXth century, as well as an introduction to American culture and its specific nature. "

Metodologías

"Lectures and seminars on the specific texts and films. Screening of films and documentaries." "

Contenidos

Bloque

Tema

"SYLLABUS Crédtios teóricos 4.5 INTRODUCTION: The nature of ""American Civilization"". America vs. Europe. The American experience in literature. Literature, society, and history in America. Introduction to major themes in American Literature. THE COLONIAL PERIOD (1607-1795): Travellers and explorers. First settlements. Religion, politics and literature in the formative years. Puritanism. Virginia and New England. Early poetry. Utopia. Native American traditions. Readings: Jonathan Edwards, ""Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"" Mary Rowlandson, ""A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"", Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption. Anne Bradstreet & Edward Taylor (poems) FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO THE CIVIL WAR 1765-1865: The emergence of the ""American voice"" in literature. Political thought and Enlightment. Franklin, Paine and Jefferson. Washington Irving. James Fenimore Cooper. Romanticism in America. New England: Transcendentalism and Genteel tradition. Emerson and Thoreau. Hawthorne and Poe. Melville and the Ocean as a ""new frontier"". Readings: Benjamin Franklin, ""The Way to Wealth"" Washington Irving, ""The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow"" ""Rip Van Winkle"" Henry David Thoreau, ""Walden"" James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers Edgar Allan Poe, ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" ""How to Tell a Story"" Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener Moby Dick RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN DREAM (1865-1919): The Civil War in Literature. The ""American Poetics"" of Walt Whitman and the intimate Lyricism of Emily Dickinson. Realism and Naturalism in America. Regional voices. Mark Twain. William Dean Howells. Henry James. Kate Chopin. Stephen Crane. Jack London, Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair and Theodore Dreiser. Ambrose Bierce. The question of the South. Readings: Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn Henry James, ""The Beast in the Jungle"" ""The Art of Fiction"" Kate Chopin, The Awakening Stephen Crane, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets Jack London, ""To Build a Fire"" Walt Whitman, Poems ""Preface to Leaves of Grass"" (1855) Emily Dickinson, Poems Créditos prácticos 4.5 - Seminars on films and documentaries related to the historical period. Film Theory and history. - Readings on: Political and cultural history of the United States of the related period: selection of works Critical and theoretical essays on American Literature. "

Otras actividades

"- Movies on theathers - Lectures organized during the academic year. " "

Evaluación

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Otros comentarios y segunda convocatoria
"Grading method: A final written examination will be given on the contents of lectures, seminars on films, documentaries and readings. (50%) Students are expected to submit a paper (10-15 pages). Dead-line: May 31st (20%) Oral exam (presentation in class): topics should be discussed with the tutor. (20%) Participation and discussion in class will be considered for the final grades. (10 %) Warning: plagiarism is a crime. All sources should be acknowledged. . Those students who cannot attend regularly must contact the tutor." "

Fuentes de información

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Básica
	"Students are strongly advised to read the following works in advance: Colección Taller de estudios Norteamericanos (Universidad de León) Ralph Waldo Emerson, El intellectual americano Olaudah Equiano, Autobiografía Nathaniel Hawthorne, Prefacios Walt Whitman, Una mirada retrospectiva a los caminos recorridos Sinclair Lewis, El miedo americano a la literatura" "
Complementaria
	"Turner, Frederick J., The Frontier in the American History, The University of Arizona Press, 1986 " "