ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Introductory approach to the literary history of the USA through the study of some of its most representative writers. The first three units are devoted to the analysis of the literary works written first in the colonial period in British North America and then in the revolutionary period; these texts include examples of Puritan poetry, as well as samples of the oral native American tradition, and essays and letters that depict the intellectual atmosphere in the revolutionary period. Units 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 focus on the main literary movements that characterized the literary world of the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries: the New England Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism in the 19th century, as well as the literature written by women. We will finish the syllabus with works written in the period around World War I and World War 2.
The main objective of the course is to provide students with a general overview of what is known as North American Literature, an overview that may help them understand the currents and works included in the programs of the courses "North American Literature I" and "North American Literature 2".
• UNIT 1. INTRODUCTION TO NORTH-AMERICAN LITERATURE. DOES AMERICAN LITERATURE EXIST?
• UNIT 2. THE COLONIAL PERIOD (UP TO 1776)
• NATIVE-AMERICAN LITERATURE
• PURITAN POETRY: ANNE BRADSTREET
• CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE: MARY ROWLANDSON
• UNIT 3. THE DEMOCRATIC ORIGINS OF THE USA AND THE WRITERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD (1776-1820)
ESSAYS:
• MICHEL-GUILLAUME-JEAN DE CREVECOEUR
• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
POETRY: PHILLIS WHEATLEY
• UNIT 4. ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM
• FICTION: WASHINGTON IRVING
• ESSAYS: RALPH WALDO EMERSON
POETRY
• WALT WHITMAN
• EMILY DICKINSON
SLAVE NARRATIVES
• FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
• HARRIET JACOBS.
• UNIT 5. REALISM, NATURALISM AND LOCAL COLOR WRITING. FEMALE WRITERS
• MARY WILKINS FREEMAN
• CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
• UNIT 6. FICTION AND DRAMA BETWEEN THE WARS
• SUSAN GLASPELL
• TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
BASIC Bibliography:
*BAYM, Nina (ed) The Norton Anthology of American Literature New York: Norton, 2008 (5th ed.) [84 NORTO 1 & 2]
*BERCOVITCH Sacvan (ed), The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 1: 1590-1820, vol. 2: 1820-1865, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1994. [82(73).09 BER 1; 82(73).09 BER 2]
*BRADBURY, Malcolm & Howard TEMPERLEY, eds. Introduction to American Studies. London: Longman, 1981. "Introduction", pp. 1-17. [62 BRAD 1]
*CONN, Peter, Literature in America: An Illustrated History, Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 1989.
*ELLIOTT, Emory (ed.), Columbia Literary History of the United States, Columbia University Press, Nova York, 1988.
*LAUTER, Paul (gral. ed.) The Heath anthology of American literature. Lexington, Massachusetts : Heath and Company, cop. 1990. [82 HEAT 1 1 & 2]
*RULAND, Richard & Malcolm BRADBURY, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature, New York & London: Routledge, 1991. [82(73).09 RUL 2]
COMPLEMENTARY Bibliography:
*ADERMAN, Ralph M. (ed.), Critical Essays on Washington Irving, G. K. Hall, Boston, 1990.
*ALLEN, Gay Wilson, The Solitary singer: a critical biography of Walt Whitman, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985 [82.09 ALLEN-1]
*AMMONS, Elizabeth , "Writing Silence: 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Conflicting stories: American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century, pp. 34-43 e 207-208, Oxford University Press, Nova York, 1992 [82(73).09 AMM-1]
*BEER, Janet, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction, St. Martin’s, Nova York, 1997. [82(73).09 BEE 1]
*BERCOVITCH Sacvan The Puritan Origins of the American Self New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975 [82(73).09 BER 4]
*BURLINGAME, Roger Benjamin Franklin: the first Mr. American. New York: the New American Library 1959 [Bibl. Xeral- BIBL. AMÉRICA: A 4246; R 39520]
*ELLIOTT, Emory“New England Puritan Literature.” En Sacvan Bercovitch, gral. ed, 1994, pp. 171-306. [82(73).09 BER 5 1]
*FERGUSON, Robert A. The American enlightenment, 1750-1820 Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1997 [Bibliotec América-B.Xeral AR 15502]
*GAINOR, J. Ellen Susan Glaspell in context: American theater, culture and politics, 1915-48. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2004. [82(73).09 GAI 1]
*GOLDEN, Katherine (ed.), The Captive Imagination: A Casebook on “The Yellow Wallpaper”, New York: The Feminist Press,, 1992. [82(73).09 GOL 1]
*GREENSPAN, Ezra (ed), The Cambridge companion to Walt Whitman. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress 1995 [82(73).09 GREEN 1]
*JOHNSON, Ivonne. The voices of African American women: the use of narrative and authorial voice in the Works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. [82(73).09 JOH.Y 1]
*KILCUP, Karen L. (ed. lit.), Nineteenth-century American women writers: a critical reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998. [82(73).09 KILC 1]
*MARTIN, Wendy (ed), The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson, Cambridge UniversityPress, Cambridge, 2002 [82(73).09 MAR 2]
*PORTE, Joel & Saundra MORRIS (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1999. 82(73).09 BER 1; 82(73).09 BER 2
*PETRY, Alice Hall, “Freeman's New England Elegy” Studies in Short Fiction 21.1, 1984, pp. 68-70
CB1, CB, CB3, CB4, CB5, CG3, CG5, CG6, CG7, CG8, CG9, CE5, CE6, CE7, CE8, CE9, CE10 of the Verified Report.
Combination of theoretical and practical lessons.
We shall resort to audivisual materials in the class presentations.
We shall encourage active participation in class discussions as well as the develoipment of individual critical interpretations of texts through the use of complementary bibliographic sources and the activities suggested in class.
In case of declaration of any emergency decree, the changes will follow what is stated in the “Contingency plan” indicated in the “Comments” section below
The same system will be applied in January and July
Attendance and participation are compulsory.
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT:
-ACTIVE PARTICIPATION: 15% of the final score, up to 1 point. Active participation will be assessed through the activities or oral text analyses made in class (or online, participating in debate forums, etc.)
The marks obtained through continuous assessment will only be taken into consideration if a C/ PASS (Aprobado 5) is obtained in the final exam.
ORAL COMPULSORY PRESENTATION (35% of the final score, up to 3,5 points) of an individual/ group essay that will analyze some of the texts included in the course syllabus. These presentations must be prepared individually, or in groups of UP TO THREE people and always under the direct supervision of the teacher. They will be handed according to an established schedule, not later than one week after the class presentation, and they cannot be done over for the July opportunity.
You need to obtain a “Pass” (Aprobado 5) in these essays, which are COMPULSORY, to pass the subject. The presentations will take place in regular (expository or interactive) classes, and will be previously revised during supervised tutorials.
WRITTEN EXAM: 50% for those students who have handed the written paper/activities. The level of assimilation of the course contents will be evaluated in a final written exam on the dates officially prescribed.
All the activities as well as the paper and the exam will be written in English (at least in the case of those students who belong to the degree in English Studies).
The students whose attendance has been waived as well as those after their first sitting for the course will be assessed by means of a final exam only;
Those students who retake the subject are also eligible for a final exam. unless they prefer to attend the regular classes again. In that case, they should advise the teachers, to opt for all the elements of the continuous assessment (participation, oral presentation and final exam).
In case of any fraudulent exercise, presentation and/or exam, we will implement the rules included in article 16 of the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións”: "In case of fraudulent realization of exercises or tests, compulsory for the continuous evaluation of any given subject will bring about the grade of FAIL in the corresponding subject, independently of the disciplinary trial that might be pursued against the offender. It is considered fraudulent, among others, the presentation of plagiarized essays, or those obtained from sources available to the public, without the proper reelaboration, reinterpretation or quoted without naming the sources and its author(s)
Plagiarism and the "cut and paste" (both applied to presentations and written activities as well as in the final exam) will be penalized with a FAIL (Suspenso) in the subject.
In case of declaration of any emergency decree, the changes will follow what is stated in the “Contingency plan” indicated in the “Comments” section below
- 4/6 hours a week should be devoted to reading the literary texts as well as the bibliography.
- Groups should be organized during the first week of the course if possible, and should meet often to prepare the paper and its oral presentation, etc.
-Class attendance and active participation in class debates. The literary texts should be read before they are analysed in class.
The students' ability to synthesize, analyze and show critical skills will be highly evaluated, as well as the adequate structure of their essays/ presentations and the critical competence they show in the written and oral performances.
Accumulation of grammatical or orthographical errors, etc. will lower the final mark up to 3 points.
CONTINGENCY PLAN
TEACHING METHODOLOGY
In case the authorities might apply scenarios 2 or 3 the teaching methodology will adopt the directives established by USC and the parameters designed by the Faculty, thus, all the teaching activities that cannot be held on site will take place online, with the resources offered by the virtual technology and the institutional tools provided by the University. We will combine synchronous activities using the Microsoft Teams platform and/or asynchronous tasks (through a TEAMS or Moodle).
ASSESSMENT
In the intermediate mode (classroom teaching + online) we will try to keep, as much as possible, the same assessment system that we employ in regular classroom teaching. If it is not possible, as will also happen if scenario 3 (strict confinement) is applied, all exams and classroom tuition will be substituted by online tests (which might be synchronous or asynchronous, as well as oral or written) conducted through the institutional channels.
Patricia Fra Lopez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811879
- patricia.fra [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Susana Maria Jimenez Placer
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811855
- susanamaria.jimenez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | English | C07 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | English | C07 |
| Tuesday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | English | C10 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | English | C10 |
| Wednesday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | English | C11 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | English | C12 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | English | C11 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | English | C12 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C07 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C07 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C07 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C07 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C07 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C07 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C08 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C08 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C08 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C08 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C08 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C08 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C10 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C10 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C10 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C10 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C10 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C10 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C11 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C11 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C11 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C11 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C11 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C11 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C12 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C12 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C12 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C12 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C12 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C12 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | D09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | D09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | D09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | D09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | D09 |
| 01.13.2021 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | D09 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C01 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C01 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C01 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C01 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C01 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C01 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C02 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C02 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C02 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C02 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C02 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C02 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C03 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C03 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C03 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C03 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C03 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C03 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | C07 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | C07 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | C07 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | C07 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | C07 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | C07 |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 (M-Z) | Graduation hall |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 (A-D) | Graduation hall |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_02 (E-L) | Graduation hall |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 (A-L) | Graduation hall |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_03 (M-R) | Graduation hall |
| 06.08.2021 09:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_04 (S-Z) | Graduation hall |