Guia Academica - Facultad de Filología - Universidad de Salamanca

395 FACULTAD DE FILOLOGÍA GUÍA ACADÉMICA 2009-2010
II. THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD (1765-1820)
II. 1. The Enlightenment. Literary manifestations of the period Readings: Benjamin Franklin: From The Autobiography.
II. 2. The rise of a national literature. Readings: Washington Irving: From “The Author´s Account of Himself”; William Cullen Bryant:
“Thanatopsis”.
III. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1865)
III.1. E. A. Poe: Readings: “The Cask of Amontillado”; “Sonnet To Science”, “To Helen”; “The City in the Sea”, “Annabel Lee”; “The Raven”.
III.2. The Transcendentalist Movement. Readings: R. W. Emerson: From Nature; Henry D. Thoreau: From Walden.
III.3. The Romance: Hawthorne and Melville. Readings: Hawthorne: From Preface to The House of the Seven Gables; “The Birthmark”; Melville:
From Moby- Dick.
III.4. The Poetry of W. Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Readings: Whitman: Preface to Leaves of Grass and selection of poems. Readings: E.
Dickinson: selection of poems.
IV. THE RISE OF REALISM AND NATURALISM (1865-1914)
IV. 1. Local Color Fiction and an Emerging Feminine Fiction. Readings: K. Chopin: “The Story of an Hour”.
IV. 2. American Realism: Mark Twain, William D. Howells and H. James. Readings: William Dean Howells: From Criticism and Fiction; Mark
Twain: From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
IV. 3. American Naturalism. Characteristics. Stephen Crane and Frank Norris. Readings: Frank Norris: From The Responsibilities of the Novelist.
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Nina Baym et al. (eds.) The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Norton, Fifth Ed. (2 vols.) 1998.
Marcus Cunliffe (ed.), American Literature to 1900, Penguin History of Literature 9, 1993.
Emory Elliott (ed.), Columbia Literary History of the United States, Columbia University Press, 1988.
James D Hart. The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature, OUP, 1986.
Richard Ruland & Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature, 1991.
REQUIRED READINGS
Washington Irving: “Rip van Winkle”.
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher” or “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown” or “The Minister´s Black Veil”.
Sarah O. Jewett: “A White Heron” or Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: “A New England Nun”.
William D. Howells: “Editha” or Edith Wharton:“The Two Other”.
Stephen Crane: “The Open Boat” or Jack London: “To Build a Fire”.
14959-MULTICULTURALISMO EN LA LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA
Asignatura Optativa. Segundo Semestre. 6 créditos
Profa. Ana María Manzanas Calvo (e-mail: amanzana@usal.es)
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
AIMS OF THE COURSE
The aim of the course is to address the issue of multiculturalism in the United States, and its impact on literature and culture. The course will
familiarize the student with the different literatures of the United States from a comparative approach