"La letteratura americana dalla Guerra Civile all'età contemporanea".
Il survey course si prefigge di introdurre gli studenti alla letteratura e alla cultura americana, analizzate attraverso una selezione di autori e testi particolarmente rappresentativi.
PROGRAMMA DA 8 CFU
Il survey course per 8 CFU prevede la discussione dei seguenti testi attraverso le seguenti tematiche:
The Gilded Age: Realismo, Regionalismo, Naturalismo
- Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
- Henry James, Daisy Miller (1878)
- Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth” (1898)
- Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865)
- Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” (1893)
- Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” (1898)
- Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900), Ch. 3
- Jack London, “To Build a Fire” (1902)
Il Modernismo negli Stati Uniti
- Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”, “The Road not Taken”; William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “The Great Figure”
- William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930)
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited” (1931)
- Zora Neale Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits” (1933)
- Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936)
La letteratura americana contemporanea
- Thomas Pynchon, “Entropy” (1960)
- Leslie Marmon Silko, “Lullaby” (1981)
- Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983)
- Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (1983)
- Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy” (1999)
Bibliografia critica:
- American Literature 1865-1914: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature 1914-1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature since 1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
PROGRAMMA DA 6 CFU
Il survey course per 6 CFU prevede la discussione dei seguenti testi attraverso le seguenti tematiche:
The Gilded Age: Realismo, Regionalismo, Naturalismo
- Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
- Henry James, Daisy Miller (1878)
- Mark Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” (1865)
- Kate Chopin, “Désirée’s Baby” (1893)
- Stephen Crane, “The Blue Hotel” (1898)
- Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (1900), Ch. 3
Il Modernismo negli Stati Uniti
- Robert Frost, “Mending Wall”, “The Road not Taken”; William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”, “The Great Figure”
- William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” (1930)
- Zora Neale Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits” (1933)
- Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1936)
La letteratura americana contemporanea
- Thomas Pynchon, “Entropy” (1960)
- Toni Morrison, “Recitatif” (1983)
- Jhumpa Lahiri, “Sexy” (1999)
Bibliografia critica:
- American Literature 1865-1914: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature 1914-1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
- American Literature since 1945: Introduction and Timeline, in Norton Anthology of American Literature.
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