American Literature: INTRODUCTION, Timetable of activities

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INTRODUCTION, Timetable of activities

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The aim of this blog is to provide updated material for American Literature to be consulted by university students of 4th year from profesorado and licenciatura en inglés, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca.

The Blog contains notes and guidelines of my own that will help you in accessing the different works of art proposed for this year. It also presents e-books whose rights are intented for public distribution, critical essays and interviews. From my view point , it is profitable to expose our listening capacities and skills to the oral reproduction of poems uttered by native speakers and considered in this course.Therefore, I provide sound tracks of these sort. Besides, I give you my own presentations for seminars belonging to my doctoral career and lecturers and publications I have delivered in different parts of our country.

To conclude, I truly wish you enjoy the subject as much as I do. I expect that after experiencing what this course is like you can appreciate that literature is not just what a Proffesor asks you to read in a compulsory way to have a passing grade but a space that generates critical thinking upon issues that are updated and that do affect our everyday life.

Literature is life and the possibility of keeping its flame alive is in our hands. Authentic creation is not simply consciuosly directed and formulated will for it arises out of body, out of instinct and desire. For...human nature is not a hidden essence waiting to be discovered through self-analysis, but an artifact , a sedimental aggregate of those available forms we must choose to shape into coherent identity with no prototype to guide our activity. otherwise, if we shun the responsibility of authentic self-creation we are entirely a fabrication of others. For both, there is no originary movement establishing pure identity which can be rationaly excavated, but only a flux of experiences ever being shed into new wholes reproduced through new vocabularies and new stories (Waugh,1992:89).

Mgter. Silvia Lucía Fernández

AMERICAN LITERATURE (2011)

TIMETABLE OF ACTIVITIES

TO ATTEND THIS SUBJECT:

2^ND YEAR FINISHED
ENGLISH LANGUAGE III PASSED
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CIVILIZATION & ENGLISH LITERATURE II AS REGULAR STUDENTS

MARCH

Tues 16^th: Presentation
Wed 17^th:Obama’s Presidential speech/an insight into American Literature
Tues 23^th: Romanticism: Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven”
Tues 29th: Identity and the narrative/ the age of Romanticim/ Edgar Allan Poe.
Wed 30^th: TPN°1: “Ligea” Oral report:”Ligea”

APRIL

Tues 5^th: The situation of the Colonies/Introduction. What are Postcolonial Literatures? PostColonial Literatures and The English Studies/ development of Postcolonial
Wed 6^th: Literatures/Language, Place and Displacemnt/ Postcoloniality and the theory of Hegmony/ The Age of Realism W.Whitman relation to the movement
TPN° 1 “The Other Two”
Tues 12^th:Oral report: “The Other Two”
Wed 13^th: Introduction to Realism Analysis of Poems “ A woman Waits for me”/”Oneself I sing
Tues 19th^: “The Dalliance of the Eagles", "Song of Myself" (Canto I,II,X, XI, LII), "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" Report
Wed 20^th: TPN°4 KATE CHOPIN: THE AWAKENING
Tues 26th: Oral Report: The Awakening
Wed 27^th: “The Dalliance of the Eagles", "Song of Myself" (Canto I,II,X, XI, LII), "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" Report

MAY

Tues 3^rd: Oral Report: The Awakening Spatial Structure
Wed 4^th: The background of Modern American Literature/A New Land /A New literature/ The evolution of modern American Literature. Psychologists, Philosophers and prophets
Tues10^th: Impressionism
Wed 11^th: TPN°5 “The Open Boat”. First World War and the Twenties/ Realists and Naturalists/ Oral report: “The Open Boat” Lexical repetition
Tues 17^th: “The Open Boat”
Wed 18^th: Modernist Images of Women Women’s new lives Elinor Wylie “The Eagle and the Mole” “Pastiche”
Tues 31^st: “To a Lady’s Countenance The Aesthetics of Renunciation Main currents of the Twentieth Century: The Periods/First World War and the Twenties/Realists and Naturalists
Exam call: 23^rd to 27^th

JUNE

Wed 1^st: Imagism: Amy Lowell: “Opal” / “ Madonna of the Evening Flowers”/ “Decade”
Tues 07^th:Hemingway’s biography- Literary Period- Ritual and Symbolism Ernest Hemingway: General characteristics
Wed 08th: First mid Term Exam
Tues 14^th: TPN°6 Oral and Written report: The Sun Also Rises
Wed 15th: Tues 21^st: First Make Up Exam
Wed 22^nd: The Sun Also Rises
Tues 28^th: Themes and Characters in The Sun Also Rises
Wed 29^th: TPN° 7 the Great Gatsby Presentation

JULY

1^st Exam – Call: 11^th to 15^th
^2ndExam – Call: 01^st to 05^thAugust

SECOND SEMESTER

AUGUST

Tues 9th: Oral Report: The Great Gatsby
Wed 10th: Modernist Images of Women, Women’s new lives Elinor Wylie “The Eagle and the Mole” / “Pastiche”
Tues 16^th: TPN° 8:The Sound and The Fury
Wed 17^th: Oral report: The Sound and the Fury
Tues 23^rd: Emily Dickinson / Outlining Emily Dickinson’s Poetry: 986-997-1052-1068-110
Wed 24^th: Emily Dickinson / Outlining Emily Dickinson’s Poetry: 986-997-1052-1068-1100
Tues 30^th: The Sound and Fury .THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS TECHNIQUE
Wed 31^st: “To a Lady’s Countenance”The Aesthetics of Renunciation Main currents of the Twentieth Century: The Periods/First World War and the Twenties/Realists and Naturalists

SEPTEMBER

Tues: 06^th:American Poets in the Twentieth Century to 1930 General characteristics of Contemporary American poetry/new Direction Traditions and Values Frost: “Mending Wall”
Wed: 07^th: “Home Burial”
Tues: 13^th: II MID-TERM EXAM
Wed: 14^th: Carl Sandburg: “Grass”, “Chicago”, “Fog”
Tues: 20^th: Graceland”/ Realists and Naturalists before and into WWII Reaction to Realism/ Tradition and revolt in Poetry/British Influence Continental Influences^/General Characteristics of Contemporary American Poetry
Wed 21^st: Make Up- Exam II
EXAM CALLS 26^th to 30^th

OCTOBER

Tues 4^th: TPN° 9: Sherwood Anderson: “Death in the Woods” .Oral report Sherwood Anderson
Wed 5th : Report Sherwood Anderson:
Tues 11^th: Drama in transition: the 19th Century European Influences. The American Theatre in the Twentieth Century to 1930- The Hairy
Wed 12^th: Drama in transition: the 19th Century European Influences. The American Theatre in the Twentieth Century to 1930- The Hairy Ape
Tues 18^th: TPN° 10 THE HAIRY APE
Wed 19th: III Mid Term Exam
Tues 25^th: Outlining/ How to write a formal paper
Wed 26th: TPN°11 Death Of A Salesman Presentation

NOVEMBER

Tues 1^st: Oral Test: Death of a Salesman Experimentation/Existentialism/Expressionism / Death of a Salesman
Tues 8^th: TPN°12 Toni Morrison: Beloved /
Wed 9^th: Toni Morrison Beloved
Tues 15^th TPN°13 Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Wed 16^th: Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Tues 22^nd: 3rd Make Up Exam/ Integral
Wed 23^rd:
1^st Exam Call: 28^th November to 02^nd December
2^nd Exam Call: 19^th to 23^rd December