Estudios Norteamericanos (Conjunto con UAH)
Master's Programme. Academic Year 2024/2025.
AUTORES Y TEXTOS DE LA LITERATURA ESTADOUNIDENSE - 608559
Curso Académico 2024-25
Datos Generales
- Plan de estudios: 065A - MÁSTER UNIVERSITARIO EN ESTUDIOS NORTEAMERICANOS (2016-17)
- Carácter: OPTATIVA
- ECTS: 6.0
SINOPSIS
COMPETENCIAS
Generales
CG1 - Students will acquire a deeper and more specific knowledge of the disciplines inherent to American Studies.
GC2 - Students will be able to use the acquired preparation as a resource and reference model through which to adequately solve theoretical and practical issues related to the different areas of specialization that are achieved through the itineraries suggested in the training program of this degree.
CG3 - Students will be able to learn in a continuous, autonomous and self-directed way, developing new approaches and analytical methods within American Studies.
CG4 - Students will be familiar with the most recent innovations in the field of American Studies.
CG5 - Students will acquire the skills necessary to conduct a research paper.
CG6 - Students will apply theoretical and analytical contributions from different fields of knowledge in pursuit of the same scientific objective during their participation in the sessions, through group work, in written papers and in their dissertations.
CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
CB7 - That students know how to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and deal with the complexity of making judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
GC2 - Students will be able to use the acquired preparation as a resource and reference model through which to adequately solve theoretical and practical issues related to the different areas of specialization that are achieved through the itineraries suggested in the training program of this degree.
CG3 - Students will be able to learn in a continuous, autonomous and self-directed way, developing new approaches and analytical methods within American Studies.
CG4 - Students will be familiar with the most recent innovations in the field of American Studies.
CG5 - Students will acquire the skills necessary to conduct a research paper.
CG6 - Students will apply theoretical and analytical contributions from different fields of knowledge in pursuit of the same scientific objective during their participation in the sessions, through group work, in written papers and in their dissertations.
CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
CB7 - That students know how to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and deal with the complexity of making judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
Específicas
CE1 - Students will be able to question the validity of relativistic assertions about American idiosyncrasies.
CE2 - Students will be able to discern the various milestones of American political and cultural history in both their dyschrony and synchrony.
CE3 - Students will be able to carry out a research work with an adequate structure, clear writing, solid argumentation and respecting all the rules of citation and relation of sources typical of this type of work and assimilating the theories or opinions exposed in other studies on the subject.
CE5 - Students will have the ability to interpret and evaluate all types of current American texts (press, advertising, reports, communiqués, scientific or economic texts, ideological, historical, literary texts, etc.) revealing their ideology, objectives, and function.
CE6 - Students will have a global vision of transatlantic cultural, political and historical relations from the creation of New England to the present day.
CE7 - Students will be able to undertake inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to American cultural constructs, regardless of their nature.
CE2 - Students will be able to discern the various milestones of American political and cultural history in both their dyschrony and synchrony.
CE3 - Students will be able to carry out a research work with an adequate structure, clear writing, solid argumentation and respecting all the rules of citation and relation of sources typical of this type of work and assimilating the theories or opinions exposed in other studies on the subject.
CE5 - Students will have the ability to interpret and evaluate all types of current American texts (press, advertising, reports, communiqués, scientific or economic texts, ideological, historical, literary texts, etc.) revealing their ideology, objectives, and function.
CE6 - Students will have a global vision of transatlantic cultural, political and historical relations from the creation of New England to the present day.
CE7 - Students will be able to undertake inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to American cultural constructs, regardless of their nature.
ACTIVIDADES DOCENTES
Clases teóricas
20%
Clases prácticas
40%
Presentaciones
20%
Otras actividades
10%
TOTAL
100%
Presenciales
2
No presenciales
4
Semestre
1
Breve descriptor:
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to those texts and authors of the American literary canon that have shaped the textuality of the American identity. The course will investigate how the identity of the U.S. is supported by texts sustained by the aesthetic principles of the rationality of the Enlightenment, the imagination of Romanticism, and the spirituality of Puritanism. The course will focus initially on the study of the icons of the nineteenth century imagination who include elements of the three aforementioned traditions: Edgar A. Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Mark Twain, in different genres (poetry and prose).
The journey through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries will be twofold: on the one hand, the contestation and dialogue proposed by North American aesthetics to European arts in the generation of narrators and poets of American Modernism (from William Faulkner to William Carlos Williams); and secondly, the analysis of the genesis and evolution of the postmodern aesthetic from 1950 to the present, with its consequent media impact, its reflection of social anomalies, and its desire to rewrite democracy in North America from a revision of race, gender and identity.
Requisitos
General requirements for admission to the master's degree
Objetivos
1) To understand the relevance of the U.S. literary canon in the formation of American identity.
2) To provide an overview of American literary expressions in the main forms of prose and poetry.
3) To develop and deepen skills of textual interpretation.
4) To understand the historical development of the U.S. as a historical process inevitably linked to literary expression.
5) To develop the student's competence in the tasks of searching for, researching, analyzing, and organizing information.
6) To develop the student's competence in interpreting U.S. culture using text, discourse and artistic expression as starting points.
Contenido
The thematic contents will be articulated in two blocks:
1. Fundamental texts and authors prior to 1900.
2. Fundamental texts and authors from 1900 to the present.
Evaluación
The evaluation will be based on attendance, class participation, participation in the virtual campus, oral presentations in the classroom, and written work (group or individual).
Bibliografía
It is a paramount requirement that students get the primary texts (novels, essays, poems, etc.) that are required reading for the semester. Specific titles will be specified in the classroom. A very brief bibliography of secondary and critical sources follows. This bibliography will be expanded in the classroom.
Baym, N, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. London and NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Bercovitch, S., ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Bradbury, M. The Modern American Novel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.
Cassuto, L., ed. The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
Lehman, D., ed. The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
Elliot, E., ed. The Columbia Literary History of the United States. NY: Columbia UP, 1988.
Fieldler, L. Love and Death in the American Novel. NY: Stein and Day, 1997.
Lauter, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Volume A: Beginnings to 1800 and Volume B: Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2009.
Minter, D. A Cultural History of the American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
Pizer, D., ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Salzman, J., ed. The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
Wagner-Martin, L., ed. A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2013.
Baym, N, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. London and NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003.
Bercovitch, S., ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Bradbury, M. The Modern American Novel. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992.
Cassuto, L., ed. The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
Lehman, D., ed. The Oxford Book of American Poetry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
Elliot, E., ed. The Columbia Literary History of the United States. NY: Columbia UP, 1988.
Fieldler, L. Love and Death in the American Novel. NY: Stein and Day, 1997.
Lauter, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Volume A: Beginnings to 1800 and Volume B: Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2009.
Minter, D. A Cultural History of the American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
Pizer, D., ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Salzman, J., ed. The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
Wagner-Martin, L., ed. A History of American Literature: 1950 to the Present. Malden, MA: Wiley, 2013.
Otra información relevante
The information in this sheet does not replace the course syllabus, which is the document where activities, material, readings, and thematic content will be specified.
During the first week of class, the syllabus will be handed out in the classroom and will also be available on the campus virtual for the course.
English will be used as the language of instruction, and for all assignments, activities, and exams in the course.
During the first week of class, the syllabus will be handed out in the classroom and will also be available on the campus virtual for the course.
English will be used as the language of instruction, and for all assignments, activities, and exams in the course.
Estructura
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Grupos
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| Grupo | Periodos | Horarios | Aula | Profesor |
| Grupo T | 12/09/2024 - 13/12/2024 | MARTES 18:00 - 21:00 | A-22A | CARMEN MENDEZ GARCIA ISABEL DURAN GIMENEZ-RICO |