Degree | Type | Year |
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2504212 English Studies | OB | 3 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 3 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OT | 4 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 3 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OT | 4 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 0 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 3 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OT | 4 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 3 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OT | 4 |
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A C1(advanced or C2(proficiency), Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment is required. C1 allows the student to: understand a wide range of long and/or complex texts; express themselves fluently and spontaneously with having to search around for words or expressions; use language efficiently in various social, academic, and professional contexts; demonstrate skill in the structure of their writing, particular in the use of connectors and other forms of relating ideas. C2 allows the student to understand practically any text, whether oral or written, with as little additional effort as possible; to summarise information from a wide variety of sources, articulate facts and discussion, presenting them in a coherent fashion; to express themselves fluently and accurately, including nuances in the most complex of situations.
"American Literature II: From Modernism until the first half of the 20th century" 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 American Literature II: From Modernism until the first half of the 20th century 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: Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Edna St Vincent Millay, H.D.
For the first four set texts, please procure an annotated edition with notes and introduction, such as Oxford World's Classics or Penguin Classics.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Directed activities | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Supervised activities | 25 | 1 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous activities | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
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 | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Class participation and in-class activities | 10% | 8 | 0.32 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
Written assessment 1 – in-class essay | 45% | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
Written assessment 2 - exam | 45% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
-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 of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Irregularities refer, for instance, to copying in an exam, copying from sources without indiacting authorship, or a misuse of AI such as presenting work as original that has been generated by an AI tool or programme. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.]
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. Modernist poetry (selections)
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.
Donaldson, S. (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway, 1996.
Freedman, J. (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Henry James, 1998.
Hutchinson, G. (ed). The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, 2007.
Kalaidjian, W. (ed). The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism, 2005.
Miller, J. (ed). The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, 2015.
Phillips, C.N. (ed). The Cambridge Companion to American Poets, 2018.
Prigozy, Ruth (ed). The Cambridge Companion to F Scott Fitzgerald, 2001.
Not applicable
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 1 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 2 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |