| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| English and German |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| Lecture and classroom discussion. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Continuos evaluation - - |
| Bibliografia |
| Stephen Crane. The Red Badge of Courage. (1895) F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. (1925) J. D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye. (1951) Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man. (1952) Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49. (1966) |
| Continguts |
| The first semester will be devoted to poetry. Primary enphasis will be placed on the extraordinary generation of Modernists. Some aspects to be considered are: formal experimentation (fragmentation) vs. the continuation of Romantic ideas, the need to make a new search for spiritual values and the American vs. the Cosmopolitan. We will also consider some representative figures from the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Generation, the Confessional poets, and others. The second semester will be devoted to fiction, We will read and discuss some of the key works (novels or short stories) by a few of the most important prose writers of the period under consideration. Among the aspects we will deal with are: Experimentation in narrative technique, the importance of the autobiography and the Bildungsroman in the 20th century, The Lost Generation and the death of the American Dream, the search for meaning in a de-humanized world. In the case of the short stories, students will be required to participate in the presentation and discussion of individual texts. It is hoped that they will also make an effort to do the same for the novels. |