Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OB | 3 | 1 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501907 English and Classics | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501907 English and Classics | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501913 English and French | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501913 English and French | OT | 4 | 0 |
Literatura nord-americana moderna (Modern American Literature) provides an overview to the fiction and poetry written by American authors during Modernism. The subject involves the reading, analysis, debate and interpretation of the selected works.
On successfully completing Literatura nord-americana moderna, students will be able to:
• Demonstrate a good level of reading knowledge as regards the key literary works of American Modernism.
• Produce literary criticism through essays and presentations.
• Use the resources of any university library relating to material on the literature of American Modernism.
• Express an informed opinion on the literary texts studied throughout this course.
The course is divided into five units
Unit 1 Henry James: Washington Square
Unit 2 Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Unit 3 F.S. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Unit 4 Nella Larsen: Passing
Unit 5 Modernist poetry: Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Edna St Vincent Millay etc.
For the first five set texts, please procure an annotated edition with notes and introduction, such as Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Directed activities | 50 | 2 | 16, 24, 7, 18 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Supervised activities | 25 | 1 | 13, 25, 27 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous activities | 50 | 2 | 15, 20, 22 |
-Re-assessment conditions:
Re-assessment for this subject requires a content-synthesis test, for which the following conditions are applicable:
-The student must previously have submitted a minimum of two-thirds of the course-assessment items.
-The student must previously have obtained an average overall grade equal to or higher than 3.5.
-The student must previously have passed 45% of the subject’s assessment requirements.
-The maximum grade than can be obtained through re-assessment is 5.
-The following activities are not eligible for reassessment: forums and class participation
Students can't attend the reàssessment to improve their marks. If the student can't attend the exam because s/he is sick, they will have to agree on an alternative date with the teacher.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Participation | 10% | 21 | 0.84 | 1, 2, 11, 4, 3, 5, 13, 15, 16, 14, 24, 19, 8, 7, 6, 20, 25, 26 |
Written assessment 1 | 45% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 10, 9, 11, 4, 3, 5, 12, 13, 15, 16, 14, 24, 23, 19, 8, 20, 22, 21, 25, 18, 17, 27, 26 |
Written assessment 2 | 45% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 10, 9, 11, 4, 3, 5, 13, 15, 16, 14, 24, 23, 19, 8, 20, 22, 21, 25, 18, 17, 27, 26 |
READINGS
1. Henry James, Washington Square
Penguin edition. ISBN: 9780141441368
Oxford edition. ISBN: 9780199559190
2. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Vintage edition. ISBN: 9780099273974
3. F.S.Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Penguin edition. ISBN: 9780141182636
Oxford edition. ISBN: 9780199536405
4. Nella Larsen, Passing
Penguin edition. ISBN: 9780142437278
5. Seleccions de poesia modernista
SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
(More specific bibliography will be provided during the semester)
Bigsby, Christopher. The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Cowley, Malcolm. Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. New York: Penguin, 1994.
Gray, Richard J. A History of American Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Lewis, Pericles. The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Mitchell, Angelyn (ed). Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
Showalter, Elaine. A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. London: Little, Brown Book Group, 2010.
Sollors, Werner (ed.). ANew Literary History of America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Digital sources: requires library access with NIU.
The Cambridge Companion to North American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
The Cambridge Companion to F Scott Fitzgerald
The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost
The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams
Open sources:
https://mantex.co.uk/henry-james-web-links/
https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/harlem-renaissance
https://www.robertfrost.org/
https://morningside.libguides.com/hemingway/online
https://www.shmoop.com/f-scott-fitzgerald/websites.html
Not applicable