Guia Academica - Facultad de Filología - Universidad de Salamanca

GUÍA ACADÉMICA 2009-2010 FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA 374
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
1. Class Participation and quizzes will be taken into consideration in borderline cases. This credit will be given for class participation either oral
or written. Even those who don’t come to class will be able to participate with written comments on the readings and class notes.
Should you feel that your exam hasn’t been graded accurately, please write down your reasons and submit th to me or ask for an appointment
to see the exam. We will sit down and discuss the exam.
Missed exams or late papers will not be accepted without a doctor’s note or a justification regulated in the “Reglamento de Examenes
MANUALS
Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1986. Este libro abarca los siglos XVII a XX, y organiza los capítulos
de forma variada: por período, género, movimiento etc. Es útil pero breve para el material que examina.
Elliott, Emory, ed., Columbia Literary History of the United States, Columbia University Press, New York, 1988. Erudito y exhaustivo.
Goldman, Arnold. American Literature in Context,.4 vols., Methuen, Londres, 1983-1983. Vol. I, Stephen Fender, 1620-1830; Vol. II, Brian Harding,
1830-1865; Vol. III, Andrew Hook, 1865-1900; Vol. IV, Ann Massa, 1900-1930. es un manual y antologia pero sólo examina en un grupo reducido
de lecturas.
Quinn, Arthur Hobson. The Literature of the American People, Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1951.Baym, Nina, ed. The Norton Anthology of
American Literature, vol. 2.
Horton, Rod. Backgrounds of American Literary Thought. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1974. (pp. 300-338)
Cowley, Malcolm. After the Genteel Tradition: American Writers 1910-1930. Southern Illinois University Press. Carbondale. 1967. (pp. 135-146)
Karl, Frederick, American Fictions 1940-1980, New York, Harper & Row, 1983.
The Taller de estudios norteamericanos An Online Companion to the Norton Anthology of American Literature (Fifth Edition).
http://cfdev.georgetown.edu/cndls/asw. offers very useful volumes on some of the writers or works covered in this course.
1 Read introduction to the Spanish edition written by Juan José Coy, Colección Letras Universales, Cátedra.
14943-POESÍA NORTEAMERICANA S. XX
Asignatura Troncal. Segundo Semestre. 6 créditos
Profa. Viorica Patea Birk
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course considers the emergence and the formal development of twentieth century American poetry and the philosophical matrix that lies at
the foundation of a new poetic language. It centers on the poetics of modernism and contemporary poetry. Primary attention is given to its major representatives:
Robert Frost, H.D., e.e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Williams Carlos Williams. It also includes a study of contemporary
poets like: Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Robert Creeley, Frank O’Hara, John
Ashbery…You will learn various ways of talking about a writer’s imaginative and technical concerns; avant-garde strategies and the philosophical perspective
of modernism. You will know a great number of poems that are relevant reference points in English poetry.
GRADING & EXAM & PAPER
Assessment will be by final exam. Class performance is extremely important, and it will considerably affect your grade. Intensive oral analysis
and students’ frequent interventions in class debates are highly appreciated. Various written assignments are expected.