DEPARTAMENTO DE FILOLOGÍA INGLESA Y ALEMANA
Literatura Norteamericana: Realismo Social y Generación Beat
Session 2023-2024

 
 

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Syllabus

1. Modern American Literature: An Appreciation.
2.  Southern Social History in William Faulkner’s Fiction.
3. Ernest Hemingway’s Textuality and Social Issues.
4. Reality in Wallace Stevens. 
5. Afro-American Appeals: Langston Hughes.
6. Cultural Hedonism: E.E. Cummings.
7. The 1950s Consciousness: Flannery O'Connor.
8.. Jewishness in the 1950s: Bernard Malamud.
9. Black  Mountain Poetry.

10. The Beat Generation: An Approach.
11. Confessionalism: Anne Sexton.
12.  New Social American Drama: Edward Albee.
13.Postmodernism in America: Donald Barthelme.
14. Recent American Poetry: Charles Bernstein.

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3. Realism and Studies of Life. Ernest Hemingway
         - Text: The Old Man and the Sea.

Subjects of discussion to be presented in class:
   - Themes, Characters, and Style in Hemingway’s Fiction. 
   - Chief Concepts in Hemingway’s Literary Work. 
   - Man’s Individual Values in The Old Man and the Sea.
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All these bibliographical references can fnd at the Universidad de La Laguna Central 
   Library, Guajara Campus:
- Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969.
- Griffin, Peter. Along with Youth: Hemingway. The Early Years. New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
- Holcomb, Gary Edward, and Charles Scruggs. "Hemingway and the Black Renaissance." 
   Arizona Quarterly 67.4 (Winter 2011): 111-133.
- Lee, A. Robert. Ernest Hemingway: New Critical Essays. London: Vision and Barnes & Noble, 1983.
- Weeks, Robert P. Hemingway: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1962. 
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Please, visit these sites for further information on Ernest Hemingway: 
http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/ 
http://www.ernesthemingwaycollection.com/
 
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