Information on the program, general bibliography and evaluation criteria | Talk by Lucy Dos Passos Coggin on John Dos Passos
17 Setembro 2019, 16:00 • Maria Teresa de Salter Cid Gonçalves Rocha Pires
Program
The beginning of the twentieth century and American Modernism
Robert Frost – “Mending Wall” | “The Road not Taken” | “The Gift Outright”
Gertrude Stein – “Ada”| “Picasso” | “To Americans” | “Composition as Explanation”
Ezra Pound – “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste” | “In a Station of the Metro” | “A Retrospect”
T. S. Eliot – “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” | “Tradition and The Individual Talent” 8 Marianne Moore – “Poetry” | “ England”
William Carlos Williams – “Spring and All” (excertos) | “This is Just to Say”
Ernest Hemingway – “Hills Like White Elephants” | “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Anzia Yezierska – “America and I”
Willa Cather – “Neighbour Rosicky”
Langston Hughes – “The Weary Blues”| “I, Too”| “Let America Be America Again”| “Harlem”
Zora Neale Hurston – “The Gilded Six-bits”
William Faulkner – “A Rose for Emily”
Eudora Welty – “A Worn Path”
Nathanael West – The Day of the Locust
Assessment
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Attendance – 5%;
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Regular participation in the class discussions – 15%;
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Oral presentation of research project – 20%;
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Short written texts analyses – 20%;
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In-class written assessments – in October (10%) and in December (30%)
Bibliography (general)
Bayam, Nina (Ed.). The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865 to Present. New York: Norton, 2009.
Butler, C. Modernism. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010.
Kalaidjian, Walter. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005 Ross, Stephen (Ed.). Modernism and Theory: A Critical Debate. New York: Routledge, 2009.Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism (Routledge Introductions to American Literature). New York: Routledge, 2016