La letteratura americana dalle origini alla Guerra Civile: il survey course si prefigge di introdurre gli studenti alla letteratura e alla cultura americana analizzate attraverso una scelta di autori e di testi particolarmente rappresentativi. I testi presi in esame saranno svariati, ma TUTTI brevi!
Il survey course per 9 CFU prevede la discussione dei seguenti testi e delle seguenti tematiche:
La letteratura dell'età puritana
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
-Mary Rowlandson, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682);
-Cotton Mather, “The Wonders of the Invisible World” (1692).
L'Illuminismo negli Stati Uniti
-The Declaration of Independence (1776);
-Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography” (1791-1868) pp. 254-269; 297-308 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eight Edition.
L'Ottocento: Early Republic, Antebellum America, e American Renaissance
-Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837)
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839);
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (1835);
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);
-Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853);
-Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass”, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1855);
-Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, "There is a certain Slant of light", "This is my letter to the World", “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant—".
Bibliografia critica:
-Norton Anthology of American Literature (Preferibilmente la 8th Shorter Edition, altrimenti qualsiasi edizione disponibile in biblioteca):
AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1700: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1700-1820: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1820-1865: Introduction and Timeline
INTRODUZIONE AI SINGOLI AUTORI DEL PROGRAMMA
- A Companion to the American Short Story, eds. A. Bendixen and J. Nagel, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010:
S. T. Ryan, “A Guide to Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’”, pp. 35-49;
A. Bendixen, “Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story”, pp. 50-67.
- Storia della civiltà letteraria degli Stati Uniti, vol. 1, a cura di E. Elliott, Torino, UTET, 1990:
S. Bercovitch, “La visione puritana del nuovo mondo”, pp. 28-37;
K. Silverman, “Da Cotton Mather a Benjamin Franklin”, pp. 83-92;
- Edgar Allan Poe in Context, ed. K.J. Hayes, Cambridge University Press, 2013:
A. Brown, “The Gothic Movement”, pp. 241-250; Benjamin Fisher, "Poe and the American Short Story", in A companion to the American Short Story, pp. 20-34.
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (1845), “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846 disponibili online);
"Fredrick Douglass' Search for Identity", https://www.angelfire.com/journal/fsulimelight/frederick.html
Il survey course per 6 CFU prevede la discussione dei seguenti testi e delle seguenti tematiche:
La letteratura dell'età puritana
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
-Mary Rowlandson, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682);
-Cotton Mather, “The Wonders of the Invisible World” (1692);
L'Illuminismo negli Stati Uniti
-The Declaration of Independence (1776)
-Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography” (1791-1868) pp. 254-269; 297-308 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eight Edition
L'Ottocento: Antebellum America e American Renaissance
-Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839);
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (1835);
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);
-Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853);
-Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass”, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1855);
-Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, "There is a certain Slant of light", "This is my letter to the World", “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant—".
Bibliografia critica:
-Norton Anthology of American Literature (Preferibilmente la 8th Shorter Edition, altrimenti qualsiasi edizione disponibile in biblioteca):
AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1700: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1700-1820: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1820-1865: Introduction and Timeline
INTRODUZIONE AI SINGOLI AUTORI DEL PROGRAMMA
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