LITERATURA NORTEAMERICANA:
NATURALISMO Y MODERNISMO
(2016-2017)

rev. 2017-01-18
Kate Chopin Stephen Crane Edith Wharton T. S. Eliot Ezra Pound William Carlos Williams Wallace Stevens Gertrude Stein H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) Mina Loy Langston Hughes F. Scott Fitzgerald William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway

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INSTRUCTORS

Pedro Domínguez Caballero de Rodas
Edificio departamental de Filología, B1-20
tel. (34) 922 31 65 02-6612
pdcrodas@ull.es
Horario de tutorías.

Isabel González Díaz
Edificio departamental de Filología, B1-27
tel. (34) 922 31 76 16
igonzad@ull.edu.es
Horario de tutorías.

Dpto. de Filología Inglesa y Alemana.
Facultad de Humanidades (Filología).
Universidad de La Laguna (España).

CONTENTS

Prologue.

Introduction.

  1. Naturalism as a philosophical movement.
  2. Literary naturalism. American naturalism.
  3. From naturalism to modernism: artistic and literary isms.
  4. Modernist poetry.
  5. The Lost Generation.
  6. Modernist fiction.

Conclusion.

Online reference sources.

Week 1

Thurs., 15 Sept. PROLOGUE

Asignatura obligatoria de 6 créditos en tercero del Grado en Estudios Ingleses.

Guía docente.

Campus virtual.

Horario de clases.

Calendario de exámenes.

Comprobar actas en el portal ULL.

Week 2

Tues., 20 Sept. INTRODUCTION

Thurs., 22 Sept. How to read literary texts

Kate Chopin

Aspects of fiction.
Kate Chopin. "The story of an hour" (1894).

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "A psalm of life" (1838).
Walt Whitman. "One's-self I sing" (1867). — "City of orgies" (1867). — "For you O Democracy" (1856). — Section 16, Song of myself.
Emily Dickinson. "Behind me dips eternity" (1863). — "I taste a liquor never brewed". — "I felt a funeral, in my brain". — "I heard a fly buzz when I died".

Week 3

Tues., 27 Sept. TOPIC 1: Naturalism as a philosophical movement

Jacob Riis. How the other half lives.

Preliminary questions.

Thurs., 29 Sept. TOPIC 2: Literary naturalism. American naturalism

Émile Zola

Preliminary questions.

Week 4

Tues., 4 Oct. SEMINAR 1: Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

Stephen Crane

Preliminary questions.
Stephen Crane. Maggie, a girl of the streets (1893).

Thurs., 6 Oct. SEMINAR 1: Stephen Crane (cont.)

Week 5

Tues., 11 Oct. SEMINAR 2: Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Edith Wharton

Preliminary questions.
Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome (1911).

Thurs., 13 Oct. SEMINAR 2: Edith Wharton (cont.)

Week 6

Tues., 18 Oct. TOPIC 3: From naturalism to modernism: artistic and literary isms

Georges Seurat: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884)

Preliminary questions.

Thurs., 20 Oct. TOPIC 3: From naturalism to modernism: artistic and literary isms (cont.)

Week 7

Tues., 25 Oct. TOPIC 4: Modernist poetry

Henri Matisse: Dance (1910)

Preliminary questions.
Ezra Pound. "A retrospect" (1918. It includes "A few dont's", 1913. PDF).
Selected poems (1914-1945).

Thurs., 27 Oct. SEMINAR 3: T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

T. S. Eliot

Preliminary questions.
T. S. Eliot. "The hollow men" (1925).

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound. "In a station of the Metro" (1913).

Week 8

Tues., 1 Nov. All Saints' Day

Fra Angelico: The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs (ca. 1423)

Thurs., 3 Nov. Midterm test

Week 9

Tues., 8 Nov. SEMINAR 4: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

William Carlos Williams

Preliminary questions.
William Carlos Williams. "The young housewife" (1916). — "The red wheelbarrow" (1923). — "This is just to say" (1934). — "A sort of a song" (1944).

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens. "Anecdote of the jar" (1919).

Thurs., 10 Nov. SEMINAR 5: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gertrude Stein

Preliminary questions.
Gertrude Stein. Tender buttons (1914).

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]. "Oread" (1924). — "Helen" (1924).

Week 10

Tues., 15 Nov. SEMINAR 6: Mina Loy (1882-1966)

Mina Loy

Preliminary questions.
Mina Loy. "Parturition" (1914). — "Three moments in Paris".

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes. "I, too" (1945).

Thurs., 17 Nov. TOPIC 5: The Lost Generation

Cafe du Dome, Paris, 1920s

Preliminary questions.

Week 11

Tues., 22 Nov. TOPIC 6: Modernist fiction

Thurs., 24 Nov. SEMINAR 7: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Preliminary questions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The great Gatsby (1925).

Week 12

Tues., 29 Nov. SEMINAR 7: F. Scott Fitzgerald (cont.)

Thurs., 1 Dec. SEMINAR 8: William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner

Preliminary questions.
William Faulkner. "Barn burning" (1939).

Week 13

Tues., 6 Dec. Constitution Day

Primera página de la Constitución Española de 1978

Thurs., 8 Dec. Immaculate Conception

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Inmaculada Concepción de los Venerables o Inmaculada de Soult (ca. 1678)

Week 14

Tues., 13 Dec. SEMINAR 9: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Ernest Hemingway arriving in New York in 1934. ©AP

Preliminary questions.
Ernest Hemingway. "The snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936).

Thurs., 15 Dec. Second test

Week 15

Tues., 20 Dec. CONCLUSION

Thurs., 22 Dec.

Online reference sources

Encyclopedias

Using Wikipedia for academic research ► 3:36 (2011 video).

Literary dictionaries

Monolingual English dictionaries

Collocations

Pronunciation

Synonyms

Bilingual dictionaries

Translations in context