Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad de Zaragoza
Course Title:
American Literature II
Course Number:
27831
Course Description:
The course will address the following topics:
I. AMERICAN ROMANTICISM (1829-1865)
1. Historical and cultural introduction to the period (1829-1865).
2. Edgar Allan Poe: his theory of writing and the notion of "unity of effect". Revision of Gothic devices, psychoanalytic
procedures, and the origins of detective fiction.
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Romance vs. novel. Puritan roots and psychological insight.
4. Herman Melville: exoticism and metaphysical speculation. Symbolic writing and the pervasiveness of evil.
5. The poetry of Walt Whitman: originality; formal and thematic freedom. The poet as kosmosand prophet.
II. THE RISE OF AMERICAN REALISM AND NATURALISM (1865-1914)
1. Historical and cultural introduction to the period (1865-1914).
2. The poetry of Emily Dickinson: modernity, introspection, and stylistic compression.
3. Mark Twain: vernacular language and frontier humor; the South and the controversy over race.
4. Women's Writing and First-Wave Feminism: Charlotte Perkins-Gilman and Kate Chopin.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ENGH 341
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